Equipment Operator (Yard Focus)

About the role

The Equipment Operator (Yard Focus) assists with overall warehouse operations including transporting, loading, unloading, and stacking products to/from pallets, floors, or racks. This role also involves inspecting containers, managing equipment, and ensuring the safe and smooth maneuvering of all trailers.

Responsibilities

• Load, unload, and stack merchandise onto or from pallets, floor, or racks primarily utilizing Material Handling Equipment, but can also require manual movement as needed.
• Separate merchandise for shipment to warehouse location or according to management’s instructions.
• Maintain integrity of products through proper handling.
• Affix appropriate labels to pallet or carton.
• Apply shrink-wrap to pallets of merchandise.
• Transport merchandise to storage locations from receiving.
• Pick products as needed.
• Relocate the product to additional locations as needed.
• Transport merchandise directly to shipping as needed.
• Use a scanner to process merchandise for accurate inventory and location tracking.
• Follow company policies and procedures and maintain a safe work environment.
• Organize tractor trailers within space and to ensure trucks and trailers are ready for unloading, loading, and transport.
• Perform the weekly and daily inspection of the equipment assigned for the week by following the check list provided.
• Perform the basic maintenance of the equipment.
• Move containers to and from the warehouse doors/docks and the parking spots at the yard or in the warehouses.
• Open and close the container doors when at the docks.
• Support the reach stacker operator on chassis swap for over the road dispatches.
• Make the necessary movements of equipment within the yard/warehouses as instructed by Supervisors (or Manager) to organize the facility.
• Plug and unplug containers from their parking spot when necessary.
• Keep track of the movements performed with the equipment.
• Keep track of fuel requirements of the equipment.
• Comply with any additional task assigned by the Operation Superintendent and/or Manager.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Required Experience

• High school diploma or GED required.
• 1+ years’ experience required in a similar role in the warehouse environment.
• Required experience in operating a Forklift and/or pallet jack (active certification is a plus).
• Ability to communicate clearly both verbally and written.
• Ability to sufficiently read and comprehend freight instructions.
• Possess basic mathematical skills.
• Ability to safely operate pallet jack.
• Ability to safely operate a yard jockey (tractor).
• Excellent attendance required; must be able to work on a regular and predictable basis or as scheduled due to changes in the business needs and/or during peak season.
• Ability to work in a warehouse environment with variable noise levels, lighting conditions.
• Ability to stand on your feet frequently for long periods of time and walk the fulfillment center and around area (10–12-hour shifts may be needed per the business needs).
• Ability to work in a warehouse environment with variable noise levels, lighting conditions and temperature variation.
• Clean driving record required.
• Ability to lift up to 75 pounds on a continual basis.