Forklift Operator

LIGNETICS INC•Brownsville, OR

22h•Onsite

About The Position

This Forklift Operator role involves operating and driving gasoline, liquefied gas, or electric-powered industrial trucks equipped with various lifting devices such as forklifts, booms, scoops, lift beams, swivel-hooks, fork-grapples, clamps, elevating platforms, or trailer hitches. The operator will push, pull, lift, stack, tier, or move products, equipment, or materials within a warehouse, storage yard, or factory. This includes manipulating levers and pedals to control the truck and lifting apparatus, positioning lifting devices under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, boxes, products, or materials, or hooking tow trucks to trailer hitches, and transporting loads to designated areas. Lignetics, Inc. is a company with 30 years of experience in innovating eco-friendly essentials. They offer clean, renewable solutions and manufacture a variety of consumer brands including wood pellets for home heating, BBQ pellets for grilling, wood pellets and shavings for animal bedding, and a wood fiber-based cat litter. Their products are linked by a recycled, renewable, sustainable, and carbon-neutral story, as they convert recycled sawdust into value-added, branded consumer products.

Requirements

Will require good eye, hand and foot coordination.
Must be able to pass the company forklift training.
Ability to concentrate for extended periods of time and multi-task.
Will be lifting up to 50 lbs and standing for a minimum of 7 hours per day.
Required to read and interpret scales.
Requires mechanical aptitude and troubleshooting skills to adjust the weight and timing of bailer and various other simple maintenance problems.
Requires the ability to do simple math calculations.

Nice To Haves

High School diploma or GED preferred.
Prior forklift and production line experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Responsible for operating a forklift in the warehouse and production areas of the plant.
Prior to shift start, ensure propane tanks are filled and forklift equipment is properly blown out and all fluids checked.
Grease fittings if needed.
All raw materials are to be stacked in a neat and orderly fashion.
The warehouse is to be swept daily and trash bins emptied when full.
All trucks loaded are to have proper paperwork before being loaded (packing slips and weight ticket).
All trucks loaded are to be counted and recounted by another associate and both persons sign off that the proper amount of product has been verified and loaded.
Packaging slips must be attached to all loads and packing slip enclosed.
Load seals must be attached to all trucks by the forklift operator before the truck leaves the dock area.
Plywood is to be stacked during the teardown of pods.
When the plywood rack is full, it is to be banded and stacked for later use.
Re Stacks and bags returned to system must be worked on daily and recorded.
Seat belts are to be worn at all times and the lift must be operated at a safe speed.
Junk pallets are to be stacked and put in their proper place until they can be disposed of.
Clean up warehouse at the end of shift.
Responsible for assisting other production areas, as needed.
Move and wrap completed products.
Assist the Shift Leads to start and stop the pellet mills.
Any other duties as assigned.