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Golden State Foods Stand Up Forklift Oper in Conyers, Georgia

Overview

POSITION SUMMARY:

Operate lift truck outside in the yard to support facility operations.

Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

  • Adheres to safety, food safety, quality and legal compliance.

  • Perform all work in accordance with environmental, health and safety standards, rules, regulations and practices of the facility.

  • Must be able to pass training/certifications as required for qualification.

  • Must be able to read batch pick sheets, pull products and supplies.

  • Must be able to supply production department.

  • Must be able to ship and receive all materials on trucks and rail cars.

  • Must be able to connect and disconnect rail cars and bulk tankers to flow panels.

  • Must be able to read and understand bills of lading.

  • Must be able to store, inventory and keep stock in proper rotation.

  • Must be able to understand and support the recycling and sustainability efforts of the facility.

  • Must be able to control and clean up spill on the yard.

  • Document completed work as required by the supervisor.

  • Compliance with all other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBLITIES:

- None.

PHYSICAL AND VISUAL ACTIVITIES:

  • Ability to operate sit down lift trucks.

  • Reach horizontally and vertically for material/product.

  • Remove unusable product from conveyors, pallets, boxes or floor.

  • Lift cases of product or ingredient packaging.

  • Ability to visually differentiate items of color, up close and in the distance.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

  • Ability to wear personal protective equipment and/or clothing.

  • Sit 8 or more hours per day.

  • Stand/walk 7 or more hours per day.

  • Constantly using eye/hand and eye/hand/foot coordination while operating lift truck and the computer system.

  • Constantly handle/finger, grip/grasp and use fine motor tasks while operating lift truck and computer system.

  • Constantly talk/hear and taste/smell.

  • Frequently bend, reach, twist/turn and climb.

  • Occasionally squat.

  • Occasionally lift less than 5 lbs from floor to overhead and carry 30 feet.

  • Occasionally lift up to 50 lbs from floor to shoulder and carry 30 feet.

  • Occasionally lift up to 100 lbs from floor to shoulder and carry 5 feet.

  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.

ENVIRONMENTAL/ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS:

  • Constantly work in damp, wet, humid and slippery environments.

  • Constantly work near moving equipment with fumes or airborne debris.

  • Constantly work with toxic or caustic chemicals.

  • Constantly work in extreme heat/cold.

  • Constantly work on equipment causing whole-body vibration.

  • Occasionally work in high noise levels requiring hearing protection.

  • Occasionally work in high places.

MACHINES/TOOLS/EQUIPMENT/SOFTWARE

  • Bump cap, hair net, safety glasses, hearing protection, and uniform or smock.

  • Thermal gloves.

  • Sit down lift trucks.

  • Knife and small hand tools.

Qualifications

REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

  • High school diploma or GED.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

  • Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.

  • Ability to write simple correspondence.

  • Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one small group situations to customers, clients, and other team members of the organization.

  • Ability to use effective problem solving skills.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

  • Ability to use mathematical functions including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in accordance with production paperwork.

  • Ability to perform these operations using units of weight measurement, volume, and distance.

LocationUS-GA-Conyers

Job ID 2022-11641

Category Warehousing

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