NA Forklift Operator (1st Shift)

About the role

Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that’s First in Food.

Michael Foods, Inc. located in Elizabeth, New Jersey has a proud history dating back to the founding of our Country. Elizabeth is a great American City.

Responsibilities

• Operate material handling equipment for stacking, loading, storing, unloading, and moving finished goods
• Comply with safety work rules at all times and reinforce safety as a core value
• Ensure all policies, procedures, and activities related to food safety & quality are followed uniformly to reduce product and process variability
• Align and uphold company values: Teamwork, Accountability, Innovation and Continuous Improvement
• Attend and actively participate in safety meetings and trainings
• Ensure regulatory compliance
• Safely operate stand-up and sit-down forklifts and other industrial vehicles such as rider pallet jack
• Perform FIFO procedures for all materials and ingredients
• Load and unload product from tractor trailers and store in designated areas
• Perform basic quality assurance duties including visual inspection of finished goods products
• Palletize materials/ingredients/finished products
• Maintain up-to-date inventory by reporting and receiving authentication of all discrepancies in inventory
• Assume personal responsibility to ensure a safe and healthy workplace for everyone
• Adhere to all safety policies/procedures and incorporate safety and health in all job duties/tasks
• Follow safe work practices, GMP and HACCP guidelines, maintain sanitary conditions and ensure product quality is maintained
• Report any conditions or practices that may adversely affect employee safety or food safety/quality to management immediately
• Ability to operate the Robot
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• High school diploma, general education degree (GED) or equivalent years of experience
• Power Industrial Truck Operator’s License
• Basic power industrial truck operations
• Ability to operate sit-down/stand-up forklifts and pallet jacks
• Understanding of product age specifications related to storage and supplying to production areas
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Basic computer skills
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos
• Ability to write simple correspondence
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations
• Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10’s and 100’s
• Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume and distance
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of SAP preferred
• Forklift operation experience
• Fluency in a language other than English preferred

Work Environment & Physical Demands

• Workers are required to wear proper PPE such as hair nets, ear plugs, and certain areas require earmuffs
• Occasional bending and stooping
• Frequent periods of sitting, standing, walking and repetitive hand movement
• Ability to ascend and descend stairs
• Exposure to changes in temperature and humidity
• Manufacturing plant is a large, open floor; some areas have loud machinery, and some areas are wet

Pay

The pay range for this position is $20.20 to $25.50 per hour.