Forklift Operator

About the role

This position will accurately and efficiently pick orders while using first in first out (FIFO) methods to fulfill customer orders.

Responsibilities

• Follow all Safety, SQF, GMP, and housekeeping rules and regulations.
• Efficiently and safely operate fork truck in a potentially hazardous environment (wet, sloped floors, heavy pedestrian traffic).
• Responsible for proper use and maintenance of the scanning system.
• Verify cases picked to match Bill of Lading.
• Perform daily safety and maintenance check of vehicle.
• Communicate all issues to management for improvements.
• Properly and accurately complete paperwork.
• Other duties as assigned.

Food Safety Responsibilities

• Ship product free of contamination.
• Follow all Ken’s Foods Security and GMP policies.
• Report any suspicious activities anywhere in or around the plant.
• Inspect work area for any possible product contamination issues on a continuous basis.
• Report any leaking or spilled product immediately.
• Inspect all incoming and outgoing loads for signs of product contamination.

Requirements

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.
• Ability to perform mathematical operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to sit and talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and reach with hands and arms.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Mental Alertness Requirements

• Work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Perform tasks involving high levels of cognitive function and judgment.
• Not mentally or physically impaired from any cause that can adversely affect ability to safely and competently perform the duties of the position.
• Ability to take prompt and appropriate response to operating conditions.
• Ability to work in an unfatigued state.
• Ability to accurately gauge lengths of time and distance.
• Ability to quickly store and recall instructions in one’s short-term memory.
• Ability to concentrate.
• Ability to cope with sudden changes in surrounding and/or emergency situations and/or alarms.
• Demonstrated caring, committed, and concerned attitude about safety.

Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions.
• Frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles.
• Occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.