Shipping Forklift Driver

Description

• The employee is occasionally required to bend, stoop, twist, push, pull, talk, and hear.
• Door prepping locations and process for consolidation.
• Follows all Environmental Health and Safety rules and ISO requirements.
• The employee frequently is required to walk, use hands to feel or handle, and to reach with hands and arms.
• Works with little supervision to prepare and consolidate door stacks to maximize cubic footage on truck and according to customer specs, quality specs, and routes doors to appropriate destinations.
• Unloads all incoming product from vendors.
• Executes directives provided for organizing all materials in warehouse.
• Sends doors to repair that fail to meet quality specs.
• Communicates with upstream/downstream channels for doors shipping needs to complete loads.
• Coordinates and sorts orders to segregate orders by PO, customer, and customer locations.
• Uses a pallet jack to retrieve and stage material and wraps doors for shipment.
• Follows safety and PPE procedures and reports violations to supervisor, leads, and/or to safety.
• Follows work practices that are in the guidelines of OSHA standards.
• Verifies materials received to the invoice or bill of lading.
• Confirms material movements are in process, assist in locating materials.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with 5s requirements, rules, and regulations.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is working amongst moving parts, oil, grease, coolants, fumes and other airborne particulates which can become hazardous under certain circumstances.
• Puts away materials in appropriate locations.
• Work with members of leadership and quality to solve issues.
• Stacks/down stacks pallets of doors to customer shipping quantity specs, verify doors and Jetta mark/species on the doors match the tickets, inspect paint edge quality, direct lift drivers on where to stage pallets of doors, combine/build/pyramid door stacks for each customer using SOP procedures - (use culled doors/cardboard/runners between pallets to protect doors).
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to get on/off a forklift.

Requirements

• Strong time management skills.
• Must read and write English.
• Manually lifts/slide/flip materials or doors (max of 100 lbs), bending, stooping, twisting, pushing, pulling, stacking doors, and standing for extended periods. Depth perception required.
• Good hand/eye coordination.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs. and must have good attendance and safety records.
• Mildly controlled environment - can expect some cold and heat during extreme weather conditions.
• Must be mechanically inclined and have good math and measurement skills.
• Forklift operating skills to load/unload, lift, move, place, stack raw materials, navigate throughout the plant.
• The employee must be able to manually lift/slide/flip materials or boxes of material (max. 50 -75lbs. sometimes without assistance.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Previous manufacturing experience preferred but not required.
• Able to read and write in English.
• Previous manufacturing warehouse forklift experience preferred.
• Able to read tape measure 1/32".
• Forklift knowledge and safety procedures.
• Able to read and interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule format.
• Strong and effective communication skills in directing drivers and team members. Must also communicate with upstream and downstream departments.
• Follows work instructions and pays attention to details.
• Face paced position - constant flow of materials, attention to details required.
• The employee must have the ability to read and write.
• Must demonstrate solid teamwork abilities.
• Excellent memory recall, strong planning and organizational skills, ability to comprehend and retain large amounts of data, high attention details, read/interpret schedules, read tape measure 1/16" and work with sense of urgency. Must have a high attention to detail.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to adapt quickly and effectively to change.
• Strong communication skills.
• Must be able to work required overtime as needed.
• Basic math skills with ability to perform basic math calculations, such as, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Plus, knowledge of fractions and decimals.
• Ability to work in a team environment, good interpersonal skills.
• Able to read, complete, and process all receiving paperwork and transfers.
• Excellent knowledge of all raw material component, location of all materials in the plant.
• Fast paced job, constant need to recall where doors are staged for future consolidation. Separate doors by customer and load, and locate with like items within a pallet, must Be constantly thinking about how to maximize stacks of doors.
• Able to coordinate shipping products.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance