Material Handler Forklift Operator

About the role

Ortec has been providing custom chemical solutions and personalized service since 1980. With three plants and over 300 employees, we can meet the production needs of our customers while maintaining a high level of personalized service. We are large enough to get the job done, yet small enough to care. Even as the company grows and develops new services, we never forget the values that made us who we are as a company. We are a team. A family. A group of smart, talented, big-hearted individuals working together for the success of our customers and the growth of our communities.

Responsibilities

• Lift and unload heavy pallets, both by hand and by machine, and safely relocate them elsewhere in the warehouse or prepare them for transport.
• Facilitate and maintain a safe work environment and a trained workforce, committed to the best practices in the industry.
• Perform quality inspections of materials, ensuring that the delivery is completed as requested and that the order meets company and industry standards.
• Handles, moves, and stores various non-hazardous and hazardous materials within a warehouse.
• Main duties include loading and unloading different transport items, recording inventory statuses, and making sure deliveries properly match production orders.
• Ensures orderly production and distribution of products by pulling orders from inventory, delivering production materials and supplies where needed, and staging finished product final distribution.
• Maintains inventory by identifying, labeling, and keeping materials and supplies in stock, recording location of inventory, and reporting shortages.
• Locates materials and supplies by pulling and verifying materials and supplies listed on production orders.
• Maintains in-process inventory at work centers by delivering and opening materials and supplies.
• Documents materials and records units delivered and location of units.
• Maintains material-handling equipment by completing pre-use inspections and making operator repairs.
• Operates forklifts, pallet jacks, and other machinery to move items, or signals machine operators to move materials onto and off trucks, ships, and loading docks.
• Learns and adheres to workplace safety regulations.

Qualifications

• A high school or GED degree.
• Previous manufacturing or warehouse experience.
• Detail oriented for inventory accuracy.
• Valid driver’s license and safe driving record.
• 1+ years of experience in forklift, pallet jack and other heavy equipment operations.
• Must possess excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to work independently and demonstrate effective initiative.
• Should be goal oriented, confident, outgoing, and able to work well under pressure and succeed within a competitive environment.

Preferred

• 1+ years of experience in Warehouse Management Systems.
• Understanding of how to use RF and handheld scanners.
• Skills in basic computer software, such as MS Word, Excel, etc.
• Basic math, writing and oral communication abilities.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stoop, reach, stand, walk, lift, pull, push, grasp, talk, hear, see and use repetitive motions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may frequently lift and or move up to 70 pounds of material, boxes, etc.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision such as reading handwritten and or typed material and must have the ability to focus.