Scranton:Package Handler(Part-time,$22-$24/hr) | Hiring

Position in Scranton, PA

Flexible Role in Scranton: Package Handler Hiring Organization: UPS Location: Scranton, PA

Pay: $22-$24/Hour (approx. $27.9k/Year) Benefits: Benefits may be available based on employment type. Project-based work with clear objectives.

Core Focus

This role centers on your professional skills within the Package Logistics space in Scranton.

• This Scranton-based role is an excellent opportunity for professionals skilled in relevant skills.
• Our UPS team in Scranton, PA is growing.
• Benefit from working in Scranton, a key hub for the Package Logistics industry.

About UPS & Our Culture

The UPS Package Handler is the most important hourly role in the package delivery network — and at UPS, we have never pretended otherwise. Every driver who rolls out clean, every trailer that departs on time, and every package that arrives undamaged at a customer's door traces its journey back to a Package Handler who did their job with precision during a 4-hour sort window the night before. At UPS, our package handler jobs are not entry-level dead ends. They are the foundation of one of the strongest blue-collar career pipelines in America — a Teamsters-union-protected role with full medical, dental, and vision benefits, a growing pension, and a tuition program that has sent tens of thousands of UPS package handlers through college at no personal cost. If you have been searching for UPS package handler jobs near me that are more than just a warehouse paycheck, this is the position that answers that search with the most complete benefit package in the industry.

What Our Team Says (Employee Reviews)

"I took the package handler job to pay my rent and stay off my parents' couch. Four years later I am a full-time package car driver earning 28 dollars an hour, my pension is growing, and UPS paid for my associate's degree through the Earn & Learn program while I was still loading trucks at 5 AM. People dismiss the package handler role because they only see the outside — they do not see what it opens up on the inside. There is no better career foundation in blue-collar America than a UPS package handler job at the right building with the right mindset going in." - Current Package Car Driver, Former Package Handler, Austin, TX.

Role Overview & Responsibilities

As a UPS Package Handler, you execute the core physical functions of the sort operation inside a UPS package center — loading outbound package cars in delivery sequence, sorting inbound packages on conveyor belts by destination, and unloading arriving trailers at a sustained production rate during a focused 3.5 to 5 hour shift window that processes tens of thousands of packages per night inside our facility.

• Package Car Loading: Build outbound delivery vehicle loads using the UPS Electronic Daily Delivery Record (eDDR) as your sequence guide — placing every package label-out on the correct shelf position in stop-by-stop delivery order so the assigned driver can access each stop without rearranging freight, maintaining a load quality score above 97.5 percent misload-free across your assigned vehicle count every shift.
• Belt Sorting Execution: Work the primary sort conveyor at sustained belt speed — reading 5-digit destination ZIP codes and UPS Smart Label barcod