Forklift Driver

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Studies shipping notices, bills of lading, invoices, orders, and other records to determine shipping priorities, work assignments, and shipping methods required to meet shipping and receiving schedules.
• Oversees incoming and outgoing shipping activities to ensure accuracy, completeness, and condition of shipments.
• Determines space requirements and position of shipment in boxcars and trucks and lays out position of shipment.
• Determines routing and legal load limits of trucks, according to established schedules and weight limits of states.
• Moves shipments from shipping and receiving platform to storage and work areas.
• Compiles records of unfilled orders.
• Posts weight and shipping charges.
• Prepares bills of lading.
• Issues written and oral instructions.
• Studies and standardizes procedures to improve efficiency of subordinates.
• Adjusts errors and complaints.
• Aids with scheduling pickup appointments for orders and delivery appointments for delivered orders.
• Prepares order pick lists for staging.
• Confirms shipped orders in the system by entering shipment information.
• Corrects or adjusts case/weight scan issues to correct inventory in the system.
• Aids with transfers out of originating warehouse to cold storages and creates releases from cold storages to originating warehouses.
• Communicates negative transfer issues with team in order to fix and accept open transfers.
• Enters freight invoice data and creates monthly freight cost summary reports which are sent out to leadership team.
• Communicates with customer service team and carriers to assist with scheduling delivered orders.
• Communicates with indirect purchasing team to schedule and book carriers for seasoning PO pickups.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• At least three to four years related experience.