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Loomis Armored US, LLC International Vault Custodian in Hempstead, New York

With a network of nearly 200 branches, Loomis armored transportation, cash management centers, and cash inventory vaults keep cash flowing throughout financial institutions and retail businesses across the US. Loomis prides itself on providing employees with opportunities for career advancement and job satisfaction. In fact, many of our company's managers, vice presidents, and corporate executives started out in the branches as driver/guards and tellers. Our work can be challenging, but the thousands who have stayed with our company for decades will tell you that if you have the desire to learn and the drive to succeed, Loomis is the place to be. Come join our team!

Job Overview: As a Vault Custodian, you work with your team to maintain inventory in our vaults for our Loomis customers. This includes receiving, verifying, sorting, dispersing, and accounting for vault cargo items. This is an unarmed position.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Check identifying numbers or seals on bags of deposits and/or change shipments against the receipts accompanying each bag, or against the listing provided for such bags, boxes, or containers.
  • Count items, record amounts and serial numbers, sign and date receipts and manifests
  • Load/unload wagons or flatbed carts with bags/boxes.
  • Sort individual cargo items by route.
  • Communicate verbally with co-workers and with customers via telephone.

Primary Qualifications:

  • High School diploma is required.
  • Ability to meet the physical demands of the job function.


Individual Skills & Competencies:
  • Ability to load/unload bags/boxes of goods weighing an average of 50 lbs. per item several times throughout an 8 hour shift/5 days a week.
  • Ability to push wagons, carts, buggies, dollies loaded with cargo weighing up to several hundred pounds.
  • Unrestricted ability to repetitiously bend, stoop, squat, stand, walk, climb, twist, turn, and reach out.
  • Ability to perform repetitious lifting of items weighing an average of 50 lbs. each from floor.
  • Ability to walk continuously between bins, vaults, booths, and counters.
  • Ability to stand on concrete floor approximately 80 percent of shift.
  • Ability to sign and record numbers by hand and to make entries on records and prepare reports.
  • Ability to count, add, subtract, and balance columns of numbers.

Working Conditions:

  • Work in a room within a vault with little or no exposure to outside light.
  • Full-time schedules consist of an average of 40 hours/week, overtime may be required depending on business needs.


Essential Functions/Job Qualifications
  • Ability to maintain a stooped or squatting position for several minutes to perform the sorting function.
  • Ability to walk continuously between bins, vaults, booths, counters.
  • Ability to stand on concrete floor approximately 80 percent of shift.
  • Ability to read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with co-workers and customers, and to read receipts, manifests, and reports.
  • Ability to sign and record numbers by hand and to make entries on records and prepare reports.
  • Ability to count, add, subtract, and balance columns of numbers.


As part of the qualification process for the Vault Custodian position, a Human Performance Evaluation (HPE) is required. This evaluation requires successful completion of testing in the below areas. *

Lift and Carry
  • Loading Pallets: Vertically transfer precious metal bar weighing up to 70 lbs from various starting heights ranging from of 3.5 to 33" inches to various end heights ranging from of 33 to 3.5 inches from the floor and horizontally transferring it a distance of 3 feet up to 600 bars in an 8-hour shift (30 bars per skid and could load up to 20 skids).
  • Loading Delivery Truck: Vertically transfer boxes of precious metals weighing up to 50 lbs from various starting heights of 3.5 to 36 inches to an end height of 44 inches (standard loading delivery truck height) from the floor and horizontally transferring it a distance of 2.5 feet up to 600 box in an 8 hours shift.
  • Moving boxes of bars: Vertically transfer boxes of precious metals weighing up to 40 lbs from various starting heights of 3.5 to 36 inches to various end heights of 3.5 to 36 inches from the floor and horizontally transferring it a distance of 3 feet up to 20 boxes in an hour.
  • Packing: Vertically transfer boxes of precious metal bars weighing up to 40 lbs from 36" inches to various end heights ranging from of 3.5 to 44 inches from the floor and horizontally transferring it to hand off to another worker who then places the boxes on pallet up to 600 boxes in an 8-hour shift. Push-Pull

  • 1. Horizontally transfer boxes of precious metals utilizing a manual pallet jack with a force up to 60 lbs for a distance up to 70 feet up to 4 times per day. Typically, a mechanical pallet jack is used.
    Couple
    1. Grasp or squeeze pallet jack handle requiring forces up to 30 lbs up to 4 times per shift; and/or 2. Grasp or squeeze Stripper and tensioner requiring forces up to 30 lbs up to 20 times per shift.
    Climb
  • Ascend and descend steps with a height of 7 inches from the floor up to 15 times per shift

  • (required to get into the vault after security checks); and/or
  • Ascend and descend a pallet with a height of 24 inches from the floor up to 2 times per hour.
  • Repetitive Posture (Static)
  • Requires assuming a static squatting posture to work at a distance 3.5 inches from the floor for up to 1 minute up to 4 times per hour; and/or
  • Requires assuming a static stooping posture to work at a distance 12 inches from the floor for up to 1 minute up to 4 times per hour.


  • Benefits

    Loomis offers one of the most comprehensive employees benefit packages in the industry, which includes:
    • Vacation and Sick Time (PTO) as well as Paid Holidays
    • Health & Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • 401(k) Plan
    • Basic Life Insurance Plan
    • Voluntary Life Insurance Plan
    • Flexible Spending and Health Savings Account
    • Dependent Care Account
    • Industry leading Training and Development


    Loomis is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability.

    Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity

    Minimum Salary: 0.00 Maximum Salary: 0.00 Salary Unit: Yearly

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