Forklift Operator, Let Down

Essential Duties

• Operates electric forklift, moving levers and pressing pedals to drive truck and control movement of lifting apparatus in the cooler, freezer, and dry spaces.
• Unloads/loads pallets of products using pallet jacks and forklifts.
• Stores and removes pallets of products from rack locations.
• Puts product in overflow locations.
• Hand stacks product onto/off of pallets and into packing locations as required.
• Maintains a clean work environment by performing duties of sweeping, ice removal, scrubbing with rags and brushes, and removing trash as required.
• Transfers any leftover items to the Home slot at the end of the shift.
• Cleans up aisles and picks up leftover pallets at the end of the shift.
• Performs duties of order selector as needed.

Essential Skills And Knowledge

• Ability to read a limited number of two and three syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers.
• Ability to print and speak simple sentences.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Computer skills.

Minimum Requirements

• Age 18+
• High school diploma/GED or 6 months related warehouse experience or training
• 6 months of warehouse distribution experience
• Ability to work nights
• Previous stand-up forklift experience preferred
• Previous warehouse experience preferred
• Must be able to handle up to 80 lbs.

Physical Demands

• Regularly stands, walks, uses hands to finger, handle, or feel, reaches with hands and arms, stoops, kneels, crouches, or crawls, talks or hears.
• Regularly lifts and/or moves up to 50 -80 pounds.
• Exposure to wet, hot, extreme cold and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, noise level in the work environment is usually loud, up to 80 lbs.