Location: Houston, TX 77021 (Must live within 10–15 miles of location)
Shift: 6:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Pay: $18 - $20/hour (based on experience)
Position Type: Long-Term Temporary
Job Overview
We are currently hiring a Packaging Helper to support daily warehouse and distribution operations in a large steel manufacturing and distribution facility. This role is responsible for packaging products, preparing orders for shipment, assisting with shipping and receiving activities, and ensuring materials are accurately staged and organized for delivery.
Employees work with heavy steel materials including structural steel beams, pipe, tubing, rebar, and other metal products in a fast-paced industrial environment. This is a hands-on position that requires attention to detail, teamwork, physical stamina, and a strong commitment to safety.
Work Environment
This position is located in a large open-air, non-climate-controlled steel manufacturing and distribution facility. Employees regularly work around heavy steel products, overhead cranes, industrial forklifts, loading operations, and semi-truck traffic moving throughout the facility.
The environment is loud, busy, and physically demanding. Employees must remain alert and maintain constant awareness of their surroundings due to potential hazards including pinch points, suspended loads, moving equipment, truck traffic, loading operations, and heavy material handling activities.
Safety is our highest priority. Candidates must be comfortable working in a heavy industrial environment where following safety procedures and maintaining situational awareness are essential.
Responsibilities
- Package products and materials according to customer and company requirements
- Prepare finished orders for shipment, including labeling and documentation
- Assist with shipping and receiving processes
- Load and unload inbound and outbound materials
- Stage, sort, and organize materials for efficient warehouse operations
- Package and prepare steel products including beams, tubing, pipe, and rebar for shipment
- Assist with loading steel materials onto outbound trucks and trailers
- Operate forklifts to move materials and finished products (if experienced)
- Safely work around overhead cranes, industrial forklifts, and commercial truck traffic
- Maintain awareness of pinch points, suspended loads, and moving equipment at all times
- Inspect packaged products for quality and accuracy
- Maintain inventory organization and cleanliness throughout the warehouse
- Follow all safety policies, PPE requirements, and procedures
- Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work environment
Equipment Used
- Sit-down forklifts
- Pallet jacks
- Shrink-wrap and packaging equipment
- Shipping and receiving equipment
- Industrial overhead cranes
- Steel banding and load securement equipment
- Commercial trailers and loading equipment
Training
- First 1–2 weeks: hands-on training and shadowing with supervisor or lead team member
- Ongoing cross-training opportunities within warehouse operations
Requirements
- Ability to work in a warehouse environment
- Ability to work safely in a heavy industrial steel manufacturing environment
- Forklift experience preferred
- Shipping and receiving experience preferred
- Ability to lift, carry, and handle materials safely throughout the shift
- Ability to work around large steel beams, pipe, tubing, rebar, overhead cranes, forklifts, and semi-truck traffic
- Ability to maintain awareness of workplace hazards including pinch points, suspended loads, and moving equipment
- Ability to work in an open-air, non-climate-controlled facility year-round
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills
- Strong commitment to workplace safety
- Must pass background check and drug screen
- Steel-toe boots required
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous packaging, warehouse, material handling, steel, manufacturing, fabrication, or industrial experience
- Experience operating sit-down forklifts
- Experience with shipping and receiving documentation
- Experience working around heavy steel products and industrial equipment
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred
Language Requirements
- Must be able to speak, read, write, and understand English for safety procedures, work instructions, and shipping documentation
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred
What We're Looking For
- Candidates located within 10–15 miles of Houston (77021)
- Reliable and punctual with a strong work ethic
- Honest and accountable team players who take ownership of their work and proactively address and learn from mistakes
- Strong safety mindset
- Willingness to learn, cross-train, and support the team as needed
- Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced warehouse environment
- Comfortable working around large moving equipment, overhead cranes, and commercial truck traffic
- Ability to remain safety-focused in a high-hazard industrial setting
- Employment is contingent upon successfully passing a background check, drug screen, and physical examination.
Please be prepared for our AI recruiter to ask these mandatory questions:
- Are you able to work the 1st shift schedule of 6:00 AM to 2:30 PM Monday through Friday?
- Do you live within 15 miles of Houston, TX 77021? If no, what ZIP code do you live in?
- Do you have reliable transportation to arrive at work by 6:00 AM every day?
- How many years of warehouse experience do you have?
- What experience do you have packaging products or preparing orders for shipment?
- What experience do you have in shipping and receiving?
- Have you operated a sit-down forklift in a warehouse environment? How many years?
- This position requires frequent lifting, standing, bending, and moving materials throughout the shift. Are you able to perform these duties with or without reasonable accommodation?
- What experience do you have working in the steel, metal, manufacturing, or industrial industry?
- What experience do you have working in a warehouse, production, manufacturing, or fabrication environment?
- This position is located in a loud, busy, open-air shop environment with no air conditioning. Are you comfortable working in these conditions year-round?
- Have you previously worked in a non-climate-controlled warehouse, manufacturing facility, or outdoor industrial environment?
- What is your availability for an in-person interview?
- Do you have steel-toe work boots or steel-toe shoes?
- Are you willing and able to successfully complete all pre-employment requirements, including a background check, drug screen, and physical examination?
- This position is located in a large open-air steel manufacturing facility where employees work around heavy steel beams, pipe, tubing, rebar, overhead cranes, industrial forklifts, and semi-truck traffic. Are you comfortable working in this type of environment?
- Have you previously worked in a steel manufacturing, metal fabrication, construction materials, industrial warehouse, or heavy manufacturing environment? Please describe your experience.
- Are you familiar with industrial hazards such as pinch points, struck-by hazards, suspended loads, moving equipment, and truck traffic? Please describe your experience.
- Have you worked around large steel products such as beams, pipe, tubing, plate, rebar, or other heavy metal materials? If yes, please explain.
- This position requires maintaining constant awareness of your surroundings to avoid pinch points, moving equipment, overhead loads, and loading operations. Are you able to work safely while maintaining this level of awareness throughout an entire shift?
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