Job Title: Warehouse Worker
Job Description
This role offers the opportunity to support critical operations by handling a wide range of products, from personal protective equipment to scientific instruments used in classrooms and laboratories. As a Warehouse Worker, you play a key part in ensuring customers receive accurate, timely, and safe deliveries, directly contributing to work that helps make the world healthier and cleaner. The position values reliability, attention to detail, and teamwork, and provides the satisfaction of knowing your efforts support essential scientific and medical work.
Responsibilities
Process customer orders daily to meet established service and delivery expectations.
Work in one or more core warehouse functions, including receiving, picking, packing, shipping, and put-away.
Accurately pick items from inventory and prepare them for shipment according to order specifications.
Pack products using appropriate materials, documentation, and methods to ensure safe and secure transit.
Label and package shipments in accordance with standard operating procedures, including proper hazardous materials documentation when required.
Operate warehouse equipment such as swing reach trucks, stand-up forklifts, and order pickers; participate in training to safely operate this equipment if needed.
Use warehouse management systems, computers, and scanning equipment to track inventory, update records, and complete assigned tasks.
Maintain a clean, safe, and organized work area, ensuring aisles, equipment, and storage locations remain orderly.
Follow all safety, compliance, and operational guidelines, including proper handling of chemicals and other hazardous materials.
Collaborate with team members and supervisors to meet productivity goals and support continuous improvement in warehouse processes.
Identify and communicate any issues with orders, inventory, equipment, or safety to the appropriate personnel.
Support other warehouse functions as needed to meet changing business demands.
Essential Skills
High school diploma or equivalent.
2+ years of general warehouse experience.
Experience with powered industrial trucks, such as order pickers, forklifts, or swing reach trucks.
Ability to stand, walk, stoop, bend, and reach for extended periods during the shift.
Comfort working at heights up to 20 feet when required by the role.
Strong attention to detail to ensure accurate picking, packing, and labeling of orders.
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision as well as effectively within a team.
Problem-solving mindset with the ability to troubleshoot basic issues in daily warehouse operations.
Willingness to learn and effectively use warehouse management systems, computers, and scanning equipment.
Ability to read and write in English to understand work instructions, safety guidelines, and documentation.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Experience handling hazardous materials, including chemicals, is a plus.
Prior experience in order picking, packing, receiving, or put-away operations.
Familiarity with warehouse management systems and inventory tracking tools.
Experience with computers and handheld scanning equipment.
Demonstrated dependability, strong work ethic, and consistent attendance.
Willingness to participate in training to operate additional warehouse equipment safely.
Why Work Here?
You will join a team that values hard work, dependability, and collaboration, where every contribution supports meaningful scientific and medical outcomes. The organization offers competitive compensation, solid benefits, and the opportunity to build your skills with training on modern warehouse systems and equipment. You gain the satisfaction of knowing your daily work directly supports educators, healthcare professionals, and researchers, while working in a structured environment that emphasizes safety, organization, and clear processes.
Work Environment
This position is based in a large, organized distribution center with well-defined processes and workflows. You will work on a first-shift pick/pack team, Monday through Friday, from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM. The role involves frequent standing, walking, bending, and reaching throughout the shift, as well as working at heights up to 20 feet when operating equipment such as order pickers, swing reach trucks, and stand-up forklifts. Most daily tasks focus on packing, picking, shipping and receiving, processing orders, labeling, and operating material-handling equipment to move product across the warehouse. You will use warehouse management systems, computers, and scanning devices as part of routine tasks, and you will work in an environment that prioritizes cleanliness, safety, and organization, with clear safety and compliance procedures in place.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Agawam, MA.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $20.25 - $20.25/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Agawam,MA.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on May 11, 2026.
About Aerotek:
We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry - from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies' construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.
Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
