Sit-down Forklift

Job Title : Forklift Operator (Stand up / Sit down)

Job Description

This position ensures the accurate receipt, inspection, documentation, and distribution of raw materials and finished flavor products while maintaining compliance with safety, quality, and industry-specific handling standards. The coordinator works closely with production, quality control, and supply chain teams to ensure a timely and efficient flow of inbound and outbound material management.

Responsibilities

Pick orders materials from stock and prepare for shipment, including wrapping, labeling, and documentation.

Prepare company regulatory documents for daily shipments and forward them to the appropriate person at the receiving company.

Load trucks with outgoing shipments and process daily order shipments into the ERP system (SAGE).

Unload trucks with incoming material deliveries and sample materials for QA analysis.

Receive incoming materials into the ERP system (SAGE) and label materials with identification labels.

Put away materials into stock locations.

Partner with Inventory Control to support inventory location and quantity accuracy.

Collaborate with Customer Service, Planning, Operations, and Inventory Control to ensure high customer satisfaction.

Essential Skills

Forklift operation

Production experience

Inspection and packing

Material handling

Experience in food manufacturing and understanding of GMP standards

Additional Skills & Qualifications

One to three years of relevant customer service experience in a fast-paced shipping environment.

Experience with carrier manifest systems like FedEx and UPS.

Ability to drive stand-up and sit-down forklifts is highly desired.

Preferred knowledge of plant materials and bill of lading systems.

Familiarity with Microsoft Suite : Outlook, Word, Teams.

Strong analytical, decision-making, and organizational skills.

Attention to detail and accuracy.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Ability to work overtime and occasional weekends.

Why Work Here?

Join a rapidly growing company with a family-like culture. Enjoy a close-knit, fast-paced work environment that offers internal pay raises and opportunities for advancement through experience. Employees have plenty of opportunity for overtime work to increase their earnings and are encouraged to grow with the company, providing a stable work environment and career growth.

Work Environment

The work environment requires wearing nonslip steel-toed shoes on the Production Floor, as well as hairnets, facial hair nets, ear plugs, and lab coats or uniforms. The team is close-knit, bilingual, and operates within a small-sized team relative to larger firms in the industry.

Job Type & Location

This is a Permanent position based out of Addison, Illinois.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $48880.00 - $48880.00 / yr.

Brookside is a rapidly growing company with a family-like culture. A close-knit, fast pace work environment that incentivizes employees through internal pay raises and opportunity for advancement through years in experience.

Employees will be given plenty of opportunity for Overtime work to make additional wages and encouraged to do so.

Brookside wants people who will stay and grow with them and in turn will provide stable work environment and career for their employees.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Addison,IL.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Sep 30, 2025.

About Aerotek :

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry - from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies' construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.