Forklift Driver

Join a fast-paced, growing, and exciting company full of great opportunities!

Kellermeyer Bergensons Services (KBS) has an immediate full-time opportunity to join our team as a Forklift Driver. If you want to jump start your career and be part of an exciting, dynamic, and growing team with leadership opportunities in a fast-paced environment, then this is the job for you!

For more than 50 years, KBS has been providing essential facility services in North America to help clients maintain clean and healthy operations. With a culture driven by our core values – trust, reliability, service and doing things the right way, and rooted in a fundamental belief that all work is “honorable and we acknowledge the dignity of those who do it.” These values are embraced by our highly diverse and inclusive workforce.

If this sounds like the right environment for you, then why wait, APPLY TODAY!

Pay: $15.00/hr

Monday - Thursday from 5:00 PM to 3:30AM

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Operate forklift or other hand truck

Load and unload goods from vehicles such as trucks or aircraft

Move goods packed on pallets or in crates around the storage facility

Stack goods in the correct storage bays, following inventory control instructions

Ensuring loads are secure

Stack empty pallets

Perform daily equipment checks such as recharging the truck’s battery and lubricating equipment

Remove machine attachments and waste material from machines

Pick up cardboard, plastics and other items or debris; load and remove to stacking area or debris bin(s) or other designated location

Provide support to the janitorial crew when needed which may include the following:

Clean building floor surfaces by sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, or vacuuming

Gather and empty trash

Qualification requirements:

1-3 years’ experience as forklift operator

General janitorial experience preferred

Valid certification to operate forklifts and must be able satisfactorily pass company PIT (Performance Industrial Trucks) Training

Physical demands and abilities:

Use of hands and fingers

Ability to grasp, reach, push, and pull with hands and arms

Stand; walk; climb, use balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl

Lift and/or move/carry, up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

Stand on feet most of the shift, for extended periods of time, and may be required to walk several miles each day (some facilities are over a quarter mile in length)

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focusWhat's In It For You?

Supportive work environment, shifts that accommodate your needs, an opportunity to accelerate your career, and work with a great team! We are hiring immediately.

As a full-time KBS employee (30+ hours per week) you qualify for benefits including medical, prescription drugs, dental, vision and more!

Life Insurance

Supplemental Health Insurance (E.G., Accident)

401k plan with a match

Quick Pay – voluntary benefit offered to both full-time and part-time KBS employees who are paid hourly via direct deposit. Quick Pay provides a way for employees to access a portion of their pay prior to the upcoming scheduled pay day.

Perkspot Discount Program – discounts on travel, gyms, cell phones, restaurants, auto, apparel & electronic

KBS considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, and expression, marital or military status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. KBS also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.