Senior Material Handler - Milpitas, CA, United States
$24 - $41 USD hourly
Originally posted 1 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This Onsite Senior Material Handler position involves performing daily inventory control activities and maintaining accurate inventory records within a manufacturing environment.
What you'll do
- Perform daily inventory control activities, including cycle counts, inventory audits, and reconciliation of discrepancies.
- Analyze inventory trends, investigate root causes of variances, and recommend corrective and preventive actions.
- Partner with Manufacturing, Planning, Purchasing, Shipping, and Receiving teams to resolve inventory issues.
- Verify, document, and process incoming and outgoing shipments, ensuring accuracy of quantities and shipping documentation.
- Operate material handling equipment, including hand trucks and pallet jacks, to transport materials safely.
- Support production operations by pulling, staging, and delivering materials to manufacturing areas.
What you'll need
- 6 years or more experience with a high school diploma or equivalent.
- Ability to lift, move, and transport materials weighing up to 50 pounds on a regular basis.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date inventory records through timely and precise transactions within inventory management systems.
- Process inventory transactions, shipping activities, and material movements through SAP and other inventory management systems.
- Perform accurate data entry and maintain detailed records in support of inventory, shipping, and receiving operations.
Nice to have
- Prior warehouse or manufacturing experience.
- SAP Experience.
- Proficiency in operating heavy machinery (forklift, pallet jack) and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS).
- Experience with inventory control, quality inspection, and record-keeping.
Skills: inventory control, material handling, SAP, shipping, receiving
This role has been open 43 days — well below the 55-day median for Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering roles.
Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
2454
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$98k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | KLA Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (2454 roles · 79 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 38 | 2454 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 450 | 9855 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 39 d | 55 d (−16 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $98k |
Skills observed across this category: inventory control, material handling, SAP, shipping, receiving
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 400 open roles · median 77 d
- Entegris · 236 open roles · median 34 d
- Applied Materials · 232 open roles · median 40 d
- Lam Research · 103 open roles · median 57 d
- Infineon Technologies · 88 open roles · median 55 d
- ASML · 74 open roles · median 69 d
How we counted: 2454 open Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 79 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.