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Distribution Forklift Operator

TEKBERRY
Houston, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 3/3/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/28/2025

TEKBERRY OFFERS A $100 payment FOR REFERRALS! -

Title : Forklift Operator

Pay Rate or Salary Range : $21 / hr.

Benefits include health, dental, and vision (eligible on the 1st of the month following your start date).

Employment Type : Temp2Hire

Est. End Date : 7 / 31 / 2025

Schedule : First M-F 6 am 2 : 30 pm, occasional OT. then it will change to 2nd shift (2pm to 10 : 30pm). While in training person might be asked to work a split shift (10am to 6 : 30pm) If hired permanent shift will be 2pm 10 : 30 pm

Location : Houston, TX 77020

Job Code : JPC- 10819 / 1387117

Tekberry is looking for a highly qualified and motivated Forklift Operator to work on-site with our client, a top-tier consumer packaged goods company. As a W2 employee you will have access to health benefits.

Responsibilities :

  • Working in our Distribution Department driving a sit-down fork truck in the warehouse environment.
  • Timely and safely loading of semi-trailers and following loading procedures ensuring our customers are getting the right product and good quality product as you load. Follow FIFO or LIFO requirements, depending on where product is going to.
  • Unloading materials and consumer products from incoming vehicles and stacking them to assigned places in the warehouse.
  • Locating and moving stock of products to pallets or crates for storage or shipment.
  • Identifying damages and reporting shortages or quality deficiencies.
  • Rework Product which may include lifting 40lb lifting and stacking cases by hand or dumping bleach bottles is likely.
  • Completing partial pallets, which may include manually lifting Finished good cases at the end of the run and combining with a partial pallet from a prior run, shrink wrap pallet manually as needed.
  • If open flaps are detected, close the top flaps of cases with tape gun.
  • Know and adhere to all plant & OSHA safety rules.

General Fork truck Operations

  • Maintain and demonstrate certification of Dupont fork truck training requirements
  • Complete all associated paperwork including tally sheets, put away sheets, if so assigned downtime sheets, timely and accurately matching shipping paperwork with product
  • Put product away with the right product codes and adhering to FIFO procedures.
  • Consolidate rows and maintain a clean and orderly warehouse which may require periodic sweeping, running sweeper machines and / or the scrubber machine
  • Load trucks following the bill of lading, and safe loading procedures.
  • Follow the Trailer Safety Procedures, 4-part control. (Jack stand, Lock Out dock locks, Glad hand locks, and wheel caulk) and complete trailer inspection safety sheets before entering the trailer
  • Maintain secure docks after loads are released.
  • Ensure shipping document requirements or met (trailer#, seal#, etc.) and trailer seals are properly installed
  • Load Chep pallets as needed by the teams to the pallet hopper
  • Unload pallets off the palletizer but DO NOT operate or interface with the machine
  • Ensure trash is emptied at the end shift
  • Ensure recyclables are properly separated and stored
  • Keep your work area assignment clean and organized WPO
  • Run the sweeper machine and / or scrubber according to the team schedule or as needed
  • Weekly clean your fork truck
  • Clean dump areas
  • May perform periodic cycle counts as defined by the team
  • Ensure proper stock rotation
  • Maintain and demonstrate certification of Dupont fork truck training requirements
  • Rework Product which may include lifting 40lb lifting and stacking cases
  • Qualifications :

  • Have a valid / active Forklift License to demonstrate you have been trained in accordance with OSHA's Powered Industrial Truck Standard 1910.178
  • Prior forklift operator experience in a distribution center
  • Ability to pass Bentley Mechanical Aptitude test and Learning Ability test
  • Must have steel toe shoes
  • We need hard-working, reliable employees. Tekberry offers a $100 payment for referrals!

    Tekberry Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other protected categories under all applicable laws.

    Tekberry, Inc is a Certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE).

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