Forklift Operator II

Xpedient is a full-service 3rd party logistics provider with experience helping a diverse client base in warehousing services, transportation management, supply chain management, order fulfillment, and labor needs.

About the role

Our Team Members operate powered industrial equipment such as stand-up and sit-down forklifts with fork or clamp attachments. Tasks include loading/unloading pallets and cases, picking/staging orders, putting away pallets, and other general forklift work. Shift: 3pm - 11:30pm.

Responsibilities

• Conduct operations in a manner promoting safety
• Put away inbound shipments/move product to storage locations using a forklift
• Pick cases by the each onto pallets using powered equipment
• Prepare product for shipment ensuring the exact number and correct item is staged for loading
• Keep appropriate records and reports for inventory accuracy
• Report quality variances
• Maintain the facility's equipment and materials in a neat, clean, and orderly fashion
• Assist in any required physical inventories
• Complete daily inspection of equipment
• Perform additional duties as assigned by management
• Ensure proper stock rotation
• Comply with all OSHA and MSDS standards
• Observe and follow health and safety regulations
• Enforce operating instructions and safety policies
• Assist management in establishing warehouse standards and procedures
• Maintain detailed records of safety incidents
• Assign designated safety personnel
• Maintain warehouse in a clean, safe, and orderly condition
• Ability to read, understand, and follow instructions, and to code applicable documents

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 months of forklift and warehouse experience
• Must be able to pass Forklift Driving Skills test
• This position requires lifting cases weighing from 20-45 pounds repeatedly throughout a long work period
• 18 years or older
• Sit-down lift experience preferred
• Satisfactory completion of a forklift training program

Qualifications

• Working in a high-speed manufacturing environment (e.g., team-oriented, deadline driven, high performance demands, fast-paced, etc.)
• Driving a forklift (e.g., performing basic operations such as driving forwards, driving backwards, lifting and lowering boom, maneuvering in tight areas without damaging product, etc.)
• Working with racking systems and loading/unloading pallets (e.g., pulling and placing pallets on/off vertical product racking systems and trucks, maximizing storage by stacking products vertically, etc.)
• Working with standards of operation (e.g., OSHA requirements on minimum/maximum speeds, signaling, putting products in appropriate areas, etc.)

Benefits

• Competitive wages ($20 hourly)
• Insurance benefits (medical, dental, vision, and life)
• Paid time off and holidays

Schedule

3pm - 11:30pm