Material Handler (De Icaza)

Job Description:

Job Title: Material Handler (Night Shift)

Location: North Kansas City, MO (Mars Petcare - Greenies)

Work Environment: State-of-the-art, Climate-Controlled Facility

Shift: Nights (6:00 PM – 6:30 AM)

Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Join Our Greenies Team in North Kansas City

At Mars Petcare, we are passionate about pets. Our Greenies brand is dedicated to keeping pets healthy and happy, and we manufacture our world-renowned products right here in our highly desirable, fully climate-controlled North Kansas City facility.

Whether you are an experienced warehouse professional, a skilled forklift operator looking for a stable position, or a transitioning military Veteran, Reservist, or National Guard member, we welcome your unique talents! We highly value the dedication, safety-first mindset, and structured teamwork developed in the military and look forward to helping you build a successful civilian career.

What We Offer (Total Rewards & Benefits)

At Mars, being an associate is more than a job—it's an opportunity to build a long-term career. We provide a competitive, industry-leading package starting on your very first day:

• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance starting on day one.
• Financial Security: Competitive base pay, annual performance-based company bonus, and significant overtime (OT) potential.
• Retirement Planning: An exceptional 401(k) program with up to 6% company match.
• Work-Life Balance: Generous paid vacation time and 12 Paid Holidays per year.
• Family Support: Paid Parental Leave, plus Short-Term and Long-Term Disability.
• Career Growth: Access to top-tier learning and development through Mars University.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will be responsible for moving product safely inside the site, loading trailers for shipment, completing shipment paperwork, and ensuring inventory accuracy.

• Safe Equipment Operation: Safely and accurately operate a forklift to load outbound trailers and move materials throughout our climate-controlled facility.
• Inventory Control: Scan and move products accurately using warehouse data systems to ensure perfect inventory accountability and precision.
• Outbound Quality Audits: Conduct quality checks on outbound shipments and verify all shipping labels, product counts, and packaging integrity.
• Shipping Documentation: Create, review, and complete accurate shipping paperwork and log shipment records into the computer database.
• Physical Execution: Safely lift up to 40 pounds and move materials manually when needed to maintain logistics flow.
• Precise Inventories: Participate with high precision in monthly and physical warehouse inventories.
• Safety & Quality Standards: Adhere to all food safety requirements, Quality Management Processes (QMPs), and site safety programs, championing a safety-first culture.

Position Requirements

Minimum Requirements:

• Education: High school diploma, GED, or equivalent civilian/military education.
• Forklift Experience: Demonstrated experience safely operating a forklift in an industrial or warehouse environment.
• Teamwork & Adaptability: Demonstrated ability to work in a high-performing team environment with a willingness to learn and be coached.
• Disciplined Initiative: Ability to act with disciplined initiative to solve problems and optimize workflow.
• Technical Literacy: Working knowledge of basic computer programs for data entry, recording, and maintaining logistics data.
• Core Competencies: Basic math skills, a keen eye for detail, and good verbal/written communication skills.

Military & Veteran Technical Equivalency Guide

At Mars, we recognize that your military service has prepared you to excel in logistical operations. If you served in any of the following specialties, your training and experience map directly to this role:

• U.S. Army: Automated Logistical Specialist (92A), Unit Supply Specialist (92Y), Cargo Specialist (88H), Motor Transport Operator (88M), Ammunition Specialist (89B). Your experience with warehouse databases (GCSS-Army), material handling equipment (MHE), and precise property book audits is a perfect match.
• U.S. Navy: Logistics Specialist (LS), Storekeeper, Aviation Storekeeper (AK). Your experience managing inventory, shipboard supply warehouses, and processing shipping manifests maps directly to our material tracking systems.
• U.S. Air Force: Materiel Management (2S0X1), Traffic Management (2T0X1), Ground Transportation (2T1X1). Your training in cargo loading, strict compliance with warehouse safety procedures, and inventory precision is an exact fit.
• U.S. Marine Corps: Warehouse Clerk (3051), Supply Administration & Operations (3043), Logistics/Embarkation Specialist (0431), Motor Vehicle Operator (3531). Your focus on cargo staging, load planning, and material handling equipment (MHE) matches our shipping operations.
• U.S. Coast Guard: Storekeeper (SK), Marine Science Technician.

About Mars, Incorporated

Mars is a family-owned business with over a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. We produce some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL®, and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health, and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCA™, and Pet Partners™.

The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, and Freedom – inspire our 130,000 Associates to take action every day toward creating the world we want tomorrow.