Forklift Operator

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.