Forklift Operator

Forklift Operator / Loader

The primary purpose of the Forklift Operator / Loader is to be responsible for unloading and loading beer loads and product movement and replenishment, as well as the daily maintenance of the building's facilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Safely and accurately unload inbound product deliveries and receive into inventory.
• Utilize WMS system to locate, receive and move product.
• Assist in selection and loading of kegs in morning.
• Check in trucks and verify product return code accuracy.
• Clear dunnage from pick row and load dunnage returns to breweries following company and supplier guidelines and submit accurate paperwork to shift manager.
• Load trucks each night for outbound deliveries.
• Safely operate balers to compress cardboard and plastic and process completed bales properly.
• Maintain company standards of cleanliness in assigned areas on a daily basis.
• Fill pick row daily as needed, following product rotation guidelines.
• May be responsible for movement to storage of POS (point-of-sale) materials.
• Safely operates warehouse equipment including but not limited to forklift, baler, sweeper / scrubber, electric jack, wrapper, glue gun, and manual pallet jack.
• Process out of date, unsalable and close date product by warehouse procedures.
• Assists in morning check out process of trucks, loading and corrections.
• Follow all company safety rules and practices, including pre-work and post-work inspections.
• Handle customer pickups and hot shot orders.
• Always adhere to dress code and be properly attired and groomed.
• Obey all federal, state, and local laws.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Competencies Required :

Qualifications :

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Job Knowledge and / or Experience : Requires common intelligence such as the ability to use simple gauges or instruments that require no interpretation. Must follow oral instructions and occasionally use simple writing or arithmetic skills. High School Diploma desired, but not required; one year and up to 3 years related experience or training desired.

Initiative and Ingenuity : Requires the use of some judgment to follow instructions, using simple equipment in performing duties where the employee is told what to do and has little or no input as to the procedures used in achieving results.

Mental / Visual / Auditory Demand : Continuous mental and visual attention, where the flow of work is intermittent or the operation involves waiting for a machine or process to complete a cycle, with intermittent checking involved. Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.

Responsibility for Equipment or Process : Limited- makes minor adjustments to equipment. Damages are unlikely under normal use and care.

Responsibility for Material or Product : Works with materials where errors usually would be detected and could be reworked without major loss of materials.

Responsibility for Safety of Others : Constant care necessary to prevent injury to others, due to the inherent hazards of the job; accidents, should they occur, would be partially incapacitating or could result in significant injury or death.

Responsibility for Work of Others : Responsible for own work.

Work Environment : The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Somewhat disagreeable work conditions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions and sometimes exposed to dust, dirt, heat, fumes, cold, noise, vibration, water, oil, etc.; with several continuously present to the extent of being disagreeable.

Certifications, Licenses, Registrations : Certified forklift operator.

Hazards : Injuries, should they occur, may result in loss of time due to crushed hand or foot, eye injuries, abrasions and cuts, etc.

Physical Demands : The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit and climb or balance. The employee must regularly lift and / or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and / or move more than 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The demands include light physical effort consisting of :

A job description, by its nature, cannot include every aspect of the job. Because of this, any function that would reasonably fall under the responsibility of the Forklift Operator / Loader is assumed and it is expected that they will act accordingly. The Forklift Operator / Loader will be expected to perform any other task not included in this job description requested by management.