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Material Handler (Fabrication) - 1st Shift

Waukesha, WI$21 – $22/hrPosted 3 days ago

Immigration summary

Visa sponsorship

UnclearLow confidence

The posting's wording is ambiguous.

113 recent H-1B filings

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Green card sponsorship

Some historyMedium confidence

This employer has recently sponsored green cards.

17 recent certified PERM filings

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Job description

Eaton’s ES AMER ESS division is currently seeking a Material Handler (Fabrication) - 1st Shift to join our team on Badger Dr. in Waukesha, WI!

The hourly rate for this position is $21.45 per hour.

The core hours are 7 am - 3 pm. Overtime may exceed these hours and be mandatory at times.

Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Why work at Eaton? Below are a few of the outstanding benefits we offer:

  • Health benefits and vacation time - available to use on day one of your employment!
  • Paid holidays - up to 12!
  • Weekly pay
  • Shift premiums - $2.50/hr for off shifts & Opportunities for overtime.
  • Career progression opportunities to cross-train in different departments and increase compensation.
  • Retirement benefits, Paid Parental Leave, Educational Assistance Program, Wellness Reimbursement, and more!

What you’ll do:

Material Handlers are responsible for the smooth, efficient flow of all raw material and fabricated material into, throughout, and out of the department. Uses forklifts (stand up and sit down), walk along, and 5 to 30-ton cranes.

In this function, you will:

  • Issue material from stock location and kits material from daily release and pick list.
  • Prepare kits for transportation, delivers to dock area, and prepares appropriate packing list.
  • Deliver finished fabricated parts from machine area to the welding area, kitting area, interplant shipping docks, tagging pallets appropriately and staging them in the proper areas with pallet ID tags. 
  • Deliver finished product out of fabrication and locates the material in internal customer Warehouse storage racks, maintaining proper SAP transactions and escalating issues around stock area cleanliness and remedying any non-conformance
  • Move pallets of in-process work to where they are accessible to various machines, marking these items appropriately with pallet ID tags.
  • Keep department provided with pallets and disposes of unusable pallets.
  • Stack work-in-process or component parts in storage racks.
  • Use 5-ton crane to unload bar stock and sheet steel from trucks.  Locates material with proper identification attached and turns receiving paperwork in at the receiving desk for quality inspection. Unload coil steel for the Georg and locate it into the proper cradle, marking it appropriately.
  • Receive, locate, and issue “daily release” parts daily to assure proper inventory.
  • Disposes of all scrap steel into dumpsters outside of building. When dumpsters are ready to be shipped, makes out scrap tickets and notifies dispatcher, by telephone, at the scrap salvage company which dumpster to pick up.
  • Dispose of all scrap wood and interfaces with external vendors to maintain empty hoppers at all times for scrap wood disposal
  • Move raw material from receiving and locating to WIP and finished goods receiving, locating, tagging, and movement throughout the day without interruption
  • Deliver stand-up stackers and walkers for battery changes during the shift. 

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

  • Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship, now or in the future.
  • No relocation is being offered for this role.  All candidates considered must live within 50 miles of the Waukesha, WI facility.  Active Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation. 
     

Preferred Qualifications:

  • High School Diploma or GED (General Education Degree) from an accredited institution.
  • Previous experience operating material handling equipment.

Skills:

  • Ability to work overtime as needed
  • Must be able to understand standard shop specifications (shop drawings, process sheets, and measuring equipment, etc.)
  • Ability to lift up to 50 LBS; bend, twist, grab, reach, stand, walk, push, pull, use both hands to lift and lower materials, and perform all other essential duties with or without reasonable accommodations.

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Eaton considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with local laws. To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.

We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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Visa sponsorship evidence

Current posting

Asks for work authorization, silent on sponsorship

“Must be legally authorized to work in the United States”

Detected directly from this job posting.

Other openings

9 of 2431 recent openings at this employer mention sponsorship.

Employer H-1B history

113
recent certified H-1B filings
79
new-hire petitions
0
filings for similar roles
99
so far in FY2026
More evidence details
  • 113 recent certified H-1B filings across the employer
  • Still filing this year — 99 filings in FY2026
  • 15 USCIS H-1B new-employment approvals, counted separately from LCA filings
  • Some filing activity in WI
  • 9 other recent postings at this company mention sponsorship
  • 111 further USCIS approvals for extensions or transfers
  • The posting asks for work authorisation without saying whether sponsorship is available
  • We checked 170 filing titles for this employer and none describe work like this role
  • 32 other recent postings at this company state a sponsorship restriction

Some filing activity in WI.

Green card sponsorship evidence

Employer PERM history

17
recent certified PERM filings
0
filings for similar roles
1
filings in this location
Certified PERM filings by fiscal year
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20248
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202613YTD

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How Openbound evaluates sponsorship

Visa history uses official U.S. Department of Labor H-1B LCA disclosure data and USCIS H-1B petition history. Green card history uses DOL PERM disclosure data. Each is read for the employer as a whole, for roles like this one, and for this location, weighted toward the most recent fiscal years.

An employer is matched to its filing entities by verified legal name and reviewed aliases; a match is never made on a name resemblance alone. Where no verified entity can be matched, the page says so and draws no conclusion from the absence. 170 filing titles were examined for this employer.

What this posting states outranks history in both directions, and an employer's published policy outranks past filings. Filing history reflects past behavior; it is not a promise of sponsorship for this opening, and none of this is legal advice.