Forklift Operator

Responsibilities

• Loading and unloading trucks and supplying production areas with product.
• Removing finished goods to a warehouse storage area.
• Applying MTS tags and using handheld scanner machines for bar codes to track components and chemicals in the warehouse.
• Documenting, counting, and verifying customer piece counts for shipping and receiving.
• Maintaining paperwork to properly identify incoming materials and outgoing products in accordance with established product control systems and shipping orders.
• Ensuring the accuracy of the computer's inventory system and the physical location and organization of inventory.
• Verifying quantities against packing lists and providing Lot numbers/batch numbers for Shipping Clerk.
• Performing cycle counts and managing product disposal per customer request.
• Maintaining a continuous work pace that supports production and warehouse goals.
• Performing routine maintenance on vehicles, such as cleaning, recharging batteries, or replacing liquefied-gas tanks.
• Maintaining cGMP’s and housekeeping programs.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with their department.
• Exhibiting excellent judgment in the workplace.
• Following rules and regulations to ensure food safety, quality, and legality.
• Operating equipment safely and efficiently, protecting self and others from accidents and injury.

Qualifications

• High school education or equivalent expected.
• One year of previous experience operating a forklift in a professional environment.
• The ability to perform basic math functions such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.
• Demonstrated capacity to receive work direction and perform to the expectation assigned.
• Ability to work in fast-paced environment and multi-task in a multi-discipline.
• Understand how to participate as a member of a team; support the goals of the team.
• Willing and able to work alongside a variety of people, with emphasis on respect and safety.
• Qualified candidates must be quality conscious, safety conscious, energetic, and innovative to be successful in this role.
• Recent experience as a dependable employee, particularly relating to low absenteeism and tardiness.
• Capable to utilize a computer or RF Scanners, WMS experience preferred.
• Expected to be able to receive information and perform the tasks assigned; likewise able to express themselves to avoid problems, errors, issues, or misunderstanding situations.
• Have ability to regularly lift, carry, turn and raise; and/or lift, turn, and bend down to place a unit weighing up to 50 lb. on to a pallet or stack of units.
• Have ability to retrieve merchandise from shelves up to six feet high.
• Be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, non-toxic fumes and airborne particles, blowing dust, toxic or caustic chemicals, proximity to extreme heat, and moving mechanical parts.
• Can sit for extended periods of time.
• Able to function in a semi-loud environment, with frequent loud bursts of noise (such as backup siren).
• Able to see to operate machinery safely and efficiently.
• Able to judge distance, read signs, extended computer work, identify details.