COR Warehouse Forklift Operator

Corporate Warehouse Forklift Operator

Organization Name: Buffalo Rock Company

Website: https://www.buffalorock.com/careers/ 

Job Department: COR Warehouse

Reports to: Warehouse Supervisor

Work Schedule: Varies

Job Type: Regular

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Amount of Travel Required: N/A 

Job Description 

Summary/objective

The Corporate Warehouse Forklift Operator is a key member of the Corporate Warehouse team responsible for utilizing a forklift for general warehouse operations; to include loading and unloading trucks, product movement and rotation. 

Essential functions

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

•     Must be familiar with warehouse and production area in order to ensure best time management in completing his/her assigned duties. 

•     Pulling Line duties:

      When pulling from palletizer area, requirements are as follows: 1) make sure any pallet placed in stock has a ticket attached; make sure each pallet has correct stock rotation; 2) make sure there are no more than three stacks of plastic pallets behind each palletizer at any time; 3) never let the pallets of full product back up and shut the palletizer down; 4) never use forklifts to load empty pallets into the palletizer except line 4. 5) dispose of all partials at the end of each run.

•     Line feeding duties:

      When feeding line area, requirements are as follows: 1) make sure all partial pallets of crowns are used first; 2) make sure all partial pallets of bottles are used first; 3) make sure can line has trays; 4) make sure can line has lids; 5) make sure plastic trays are kept loaded at the denester; 6) make sure empty pallets are pulled from depalletizer; 7) make sure lines never run out of bottles or cans; 8) help keep hoppers empty when possible.

•     Loading/Unloading duties:

      Must properly and accurately load/unload materials (including, but not limited to product to/from divisions/stores, raw material and purchase product) as needed.

      Loader is responsible for stacking individual cases for partial pallet load-out.

•     All forklift operators are responsible for daily checklist of unit and battery changes as designated.

•     Required to assist in keeping assigned area neat and in order.

•     May be required to work varying shifts, weekends and/or overtime if needed to meet customer demand.

•     Responsible for continuous self-improvement throu