New Hire-Forklift Operator

About the job

New Hire-Forklift Operator/Material Handler

Come be Part of a Leading Manufacturing Company with a Team Environment.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.

Adhere to all plant safety and environmental guidelines, policies and procedures while proactively seeking out potential safety hazards.

• Work as a team to help meet or exceed production, waste and quality goals.
• Organize final products for shipping and distribution.
• Complete general housekeeping duties to maintain a continuously safe and clean teamwork environment.
• Following Safe Reliable Methods (SRMs)
• Reporting any safety or maintenance concerns
• Attending and participating in Plant safety meetings.
• Managing controllable costs through proper equipment, tool and consumable usage

CANDIDATES MUST BE ABLE TO PASS PASS DRUG SCREEN, HEALTH ASSESSMENT, & BACKGROUND CHECK.

WORKS ROTATING SHIFTS, WEEKENDS, & OT. Workdays are 8, 10, or 12 hours with two 15 minute breaks and a 20-minute lunch break.  If Employee is required to work a 12 hour shift, they will be given an additional 15-minute break.

EDUCATION:   High school diploma or GED Preferred,

EXPERIENCE: Minimum 1 year Forklift experience in an Industrial Manufacturing Environment Preferred.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:  To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required:

*The fundamental purpose of the Forklift Operator/Material Handler is to operate a forklift to stack units in shipping, stack products into trucks, take units from production line and put into finishing line, receive incoming supplies, materials.

*Each forklift operator is responsible for completing a daily forklift maintenance checklist, checking and refilling fluids, refueling as needed.  Also essential to note any problems encountered with the condition of the forklift on the checklist.  Essential to keep the forklifts clean, and  includes blowing down with an air hose.

*The forklift operator who takes products from the line and stores them in the warehouse, is responsible for obtaining pallets for finishing machines, moving dunnage and scrap throughout the short order machines, essential to refer to a production run list to determine pallet needs, warehouse space.  If a problem is detected with the loads, essential to return to production areas for reworking, re-banding.  May be essential to assist with monthly inventories, taking physical counts of products.  Essential to obtain pallets from the pallet yard to distribute to finishing machine. It is essential for the truck loader forklift operators to pick up or prepare load tickets indicating what is to be loaded (order number, item description, priority of loading, and occasionally the trailer the product is to be loaded into). Once the load ticket information has been identified, essential to locate the order in the warehouse and load trailers.  Essential to prepare trailers for loading, by removing any pallets, sweeping out the trailer if necessary. Essential to depress buttons to engage dock plates. Essential to lock the trailer out by depressing a button to engage the truck restraint, applying personal lock to prevent a truck from moving during the loading process.  May be essential to load multiple orders.  Essential to assure that counts appearing on tickets match the actual load.  May be essential to enter information into the computer  (or provide information to the supervisor), to create bills of lading. Essential to have the carrier sign the bill of lading.  Essential to keep the warehouse area clean, organized, and swept.

*Essential to help take monthly inventories. Essential to maximize the use of space in the trailer.    Essential to turn the packing list into the supervisor.  Essential to deliver supplies and materials to appropriate destinations throughout the plant.  It may be essential to receive, unload, and store pallets.

*Essential for all lift truck operators to restack spilled loads.   From time to time, may be essential to paint posts, guard rails, lines on floors. Essential to sound horn at intersections, corners, doorways, other specified points.  Essential to drive the forklifts in reverse while loaded. Essential to communicate with machine operators, supervisors, other forklift operators, strapper operator, truck drivers.

*It is periodically essential to change the spread of the forks, by pulling a pin and sliding the forks laterally.  The trailer restraint buttons are at a 58” to 62” height. On occasion a 12 lbs. hand  bander is utilized to re-strap loads.  It is essential to work overtime as required, essential to adhere to company and job specific safety procedures, it is essential to attend any meetings, including safety meetings as required

*The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Other duties may be assigned.

Additional Information

• Job Identification: 2004441
• Posting Date: 2026-10-13
• Apply Before: 2026-11-15
• Job Schedule: Full time