Forklift Operator

Overview:
Under the direction of supervision (i.e. Manager, Supervisor and/or Team Leader), the Sortation Handler will be responsible to load cases onto the sortation conveyor and/or to unload cases and palletize as laid out by Customer Vendor Guides. Shift lengths may vary from 8 to 12 hours depending on assigned area. The Sortation Handler must be aware of all safety concerns related to a moving conveyor and must operate in a safe and professional manner. Shift hours 6a-2p. 

Responsibilities:
Obtains a daily briefing to understand the daily workload and order of planned sortation

Ensures all material handling equipment is in good working order before start of shift and completes all necessary logs to record maintenance issues

Checks out and signs for at start of shift, an RF Device ensuring enough battery life is available

Set-ups each station with the correct number of pallets and/or volume of staging pallets

Begins to load sortation conveyor when directed by supervision

Palletizes at Stack-Off, each customer order and ensures each case is scanned to the LPN. Ensures pallets are built with largest to smallest and in accordance with Customer guidelines

Reports immediately any potential miss-scan or error

Keeps the department clean, to include but not limited to sweeping and mopping floors, collecting and disposing of trash and other areas

Assist in the removal or reassembly of ancillary equipment

Work overtime and perform other duties as required

Qualifications:
High School diploma or equivalent

12 months experience in material handling, warehouse operations or similar in a manufacturing environment

Capacity to perform basic computer transactions.

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos in English. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees of the organization.

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Ability to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.