Forklift Operator

Job Description

Xpedient is a full-service 3rd party logistics provider. We have experience helping a diverse client base in warehousing services, transportation management, supply chain management, order fulfillment and labor needs.

Summary

Our Team Members operate powered industrial equipment such as stand-up and sit-down forklifts with fork or clamp attachments. Tasks loading/unloading pallets and cases, picking/staging orders, putting away pallets, and other general forklift work.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Conduct operations in a manner promoting safety

• Sit-down lift experiences preferred

• Minimum of 6 months of forklift and warehouse experience

• Must be super-efficient in all tasks required

• Put away inbound shipments/move product to storage locations using a forklift

• Picking cases by the each onto pallets using the powered equipment

• Prepare product for shipment ensuring the exact number and correct item is staged for loading

• Keep appropriate records and reports for inventory accuracy

• Report quality variances

• Maintain the facility's equipment and materials in a neat, clean, and orderly fashion

• Assist in any required physical inventories

• Complete daily inspection of equipment

• Perform additional duties as assigned by management

• Ensure proper stock rotation

• Satisfactory completion of a forklift training program

• Comply with all OSHA and MSDS standards

• Ability to read, understand and follow instructions, and to code applicable documents

Qualifications

• Must be able to pass Forklift Driving Skills test

• This position requires lifting cases weighing from 20-45 pounds repeatedly throughout a long work period

• 18 years or older

• Working in a high-speed manufacturing environment (e.g., team-oriented, deadline driven, high performance demands, fast-paced, etc.)

• Driving a forklift (e.g., performing basic operations such as driving forwards, driving backwards, lifting and lowering boom, maneuvering in tight areas without damaging product, etc.)

• Working with racking systems and loading/unloading pallets (e.g., pulling and placing pallets on/off vertical product racking systems and trucks, maximizing storage by stacking products vertically, etc.)

• Working with standards of operation (e.g., OSHA requirements on minimum/maximum speeds, signaling, putting products in appropriate areas, etc.)

Safety:

• Observe and follow health and safety regulations

• Enforces operating instructions and safety policies.

• Assist management in establishing warehouse standards and procedures

• Maintain detailed records of safety incidents

• Assign designated safety personnel

• Maintain warehouse in a clean, safe, and orderly condition.

Xpedient Logistics is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Xpedient offers competitive wages, insurance benefits (medical, dental, vision and life), paid time off and holidays.

Full-time