FORKLIFT OPERATOR 1ST SHIFT CARROLLTON PLANT

Company:  Trident Seafoods
Location: Carrollton
Closing Date: 23/10/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Date Posted:
10/8/2024
Job Code:
OL0600
City:
Carrollton
State:
GA
Country:
United States of America
Category:
Manufacturing, Operations and Production
Description

Trident Seafoods is the largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company in North America. Trident is a privately held, 100 percent USA-owned company with primary seafood processing operations and fleet support in twelve Alaska communities. Trident's global operations produce finished wild Alaska seafood products in 6 countries and its sales teams serve customers in over 50 countries. Trident employs approximately 9,000 people worldwide each year and partners with over 5,400 independent fishermen and crewmembers. Species harvested and processed by Trident include virtually every commercial species of salmon, whitefish, and crab harvested in the North Pacific and Alaska. The global supply chain also includes cultured and wild species from a network of trusted sources worldwide.

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Summary : Drives gasoline, liquefied gas, or electric powered industrial truck equipped with lifting devices such as forklift, boom, scoop, lift beam and swivel hook, fork grapple, clamps, elevating platform, or trailer hitch, to push, pull, lift, stack, tier, or move products, equipment, or materials by performing the following duties:

Key Responsibilities:

  • Moves levers and presses pedals to drive truck and control movement of lifting apparatus.
  • Positions forks, lifting platform, or other lifting device under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, boxes, products, or materials and transports load to designated area.
  • Unloads and stacks material by raising and lowering lifting device.
  • Inventories materials on work floor, and supply workers with materials as needed.
  • Weighs materials or products and records weight on tags, labels, or production schedules.
  • Loads or unloads materials onto or off of pallets, skids, or lifting device.
  • Lubricates truck, recharges/changes batteries, fills fuel tank, or replaces liquefied gas tank.
  • May be assigned work in Sub zero fereezer area with proper company PPE provided.
  • Follows plant food safety policies and industry best practices.

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Performs other similar or related duties as requested or assigned.
  • Follows plant food safety policies and industry best practices.
  • Acquires knowledge of Trident's Environmental and Safety Policies by completing required training programs and performing designated work activities in accordance with training and procedures/work instructions.
  • Notifies designated personnel of any environmental or safety incidents or risks not previously documented, in accordance with Environmental Awareness and/or safety trainings.
Minimum Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

  • One year certificate from college or technical school; or three to six months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Valid Driver's License.
  • Must be forklift certified, or able to become forklift certified. Must be able to qualify for lift truck certification within 2 weeks of assignment into job function.
  • Ability to operate all forklift and pallet jacks; minimum of two years' experience in production.
  • Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.

The employee is frequently required to climb or balance.

The employee is occasionally required to sit; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.

The employee moves objects

  • regularly up to 10 pounds

  • frequently up to 25 pounds

  • occasionally up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include: distance vision, peripheral vision and depth perception

Work authorizations:

* This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship

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