MS1010 Forklift Op

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Operate industrial forklift truck to perform material handling assignments
• Identify and transport material to and from storage areas, machines, loading docks, and/or trucks
• Obtain copy of production schedule or shipping order and transport material or equipment to and from designated areas in the plant
• Identify many types of raw material, in-process or finished product, equipment, or processing materials
• Check identification of materials to be moved, cross-reference with production schedule or shipping schedule, and move to required location
• Report inconsistencies or problems to supervisor
• Familiarize self with productive capacity of machines or loading schedule of shipping services to assure prompt delivery of required items to proper destination, so that equipment does not shut down for lack of supply
• Keep tally or count of product moved and report to production planning department
• Remove empty skids or pallets and stack in designated area
• Perform preventive maintenance on forklift truck (changing propane tank or batteries, change oil and water, etc.)
• Report mechanical or electrical difficulties to supervisor
• May also use other equipment
• May handle and dump scrap materials as needed
• Keep work areas clean and orderly
• Conduct all work in a safe manner
• May perform other duties as requested
• May participate on project teams as requested

Qualifications

Education/Experience Required: Satisfactorily passes forklift driver test.

Other Qualifications: Valid state motor vehicle operator's license. Ability to keep high degree of attention for prevention of injury to others.

Skills and Knowledge Required

• Reading/Writing: Ability to understand the meaning of written or printed matter. To record information by inscribing characters or symbols.
• Basic Math: The ability to add, subtract, multiply or divide. Determine the number of individual things in a unit or group.

Physical Demands

• Frequently required to sit, walk, or move, and uses repetitive foot action
• Occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Lifting Frequency: Medium heavy lifting 80 lbs. maximum with continuous lifting and/or carrying objects with average weight of 40 lbs.
• Vision: Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
• Repetitive Hand Action: Firm grasping - the ability to exert sufficient grip to pick-up a case of 12 oz. soft drinks or to pick-up a bowling ball. Requires approximate grip strength of 45-60 lbs. on a hand dynamometer

Work Environment

• Frequently works near and/or with moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and vibration
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud