Forklift Operator (3rd Shift) Now Starting at $21.25 per hour!

Graham Packaging Company•Lakeland, FL

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Graham Packaging Company is looking for a Forklift Operator based in Lakeland, Florida. This is a 3rd shift position, Monday to Friday, from 10:48 PM to 7:00 AM. Forklift Operators perform a combination of product handling and lift truck operating duties to stack, transport, and store work-in-process and finished goods. They supply production lines with an efficient flow of materials such as knockdowns and dividers, and move finished goods to the warehouse. Responsibilities include completing line driver reports accurately, assisting production line employees by relieving them for breaks and lunch, and following all established safety, health, quality GMP, and Company policies. The role also involves performing safety lift truck inspections, battery checks, and reporting any equipment malfunctions. Operators are expected to participate in continuous quality improvement projects, review daily production schedules, and notify supervisors of low material inventory. They remove finished goods from production lines, provide accurate information on materials, remove and store production scrap bales, and maintain accurate records of materials used and produced. Additionally, operators store finished goods neatly, verify product code tags, participate in physical inventory, and ensure production lines are supplied with necessary materials. On limited production, they may assist in stock-handler duties or load trailers. Specific tasks include bringing hot glue cases, color concentrate, replacing cold glue totes, removing excess cases, bringing slip sheets, loading storage racks, setting up rework, setting up units of product on hold for QC, relieving stock handlers, loading/unloading corrugated trailers, identifying and isolating good/bad corrugated, following forklift procedures, handling damaged goods, communicating with supervisors and other operators, completing written documentation, and using the forklift to move pallets of finished product for stretch wrapping and staging. They also maintain supplies of corrugated and other packaging supplies and visually inspect completed pallets for quality and conformity.

Requirements

Minimum of 1 year forklift experience preferred.
Ability to maintain regular, predictable, and punctual attendance.
Computer usage and typing skills are essential.
Excellent verbal and written communication, including the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.
Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service.
Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices.
Communicates effectively: conveys facts and information clearly both verbally and orally.
Collaborates well with others: proactively contributes to group objectives; volunteers to help others.

Nice To Haves

Minimum of 1 year forklift experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Follow all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
Perform a safety lift truck inspection and battery check and report any equipment malfunctioning or damage to the Warehouse Manager or Shift Supervisor.
Change lift truck batteries and add water when necessary; keep record of time batteries are changed.
Fill out lift truck status report.
Participate in continuous quality improvement projects and other related activities as assigned.
Review daily production schedule with Shift Supervisor, brings materials to the production lines when needed to execute schedule and notify supervisor of any materials running low.
Removes finished goods from production lines, back to assigned warehouse locations.
Provide accurate information of unloaded materials as well as materials used or produced to warehouse personnel.
Remove, store, and unitize production scrap bales and informs warehouse personnel when there is enough for a full load.
Removes excess corrugated from mezzanine and empties baler as required.
Takes full bales of cardboard scrap from baler to assigned location in the warehouse.
Maintain accurate records of materials being used and produced, and reports them in appropriate paperwork, back to warehouse personnel.
Remove finished goods and other materials in hold to assigned location.
Stores finished goods stacked neatly and in proper height.
Verifies that all finished goods removed from the production area must have a product code tag.
Participate in physical inventory taking.
Keep each production line supplied with the proper knock down cases, dividers, pallets and when each pallet is full take that pallet to the warehouse for loading on the trailer; and takes unused cases and dividers back to the warehouse to the proper location.
On limited production, may assist in stock-handler duties or load trailers as needed.
Bring up hot glue cases to the mezzanine, brings color concentrate to the lines, replaces cold glue tote, removes excess cases from production floor, brings slip sheets to production floor, loads storage racks with gaylords, set up rework, set up units of product on hold for Q.C., relieves stock handlers, loads and unloads corrugated trailers, identifies good corrugated from the bad and isolates it.
Follow established forklift procedures and complete required safety and maintenance checklists
Follow established procedures for damaged finished goods and raw materials and report them on line driver report.
Communicate with supervisor regarding shift totals and machine totals reports and with other lift truck operators regarding any changes or problems that arise, including damaged materials, damaged skids, or low inventories.
Complete written documentation as required.
Assist in relieving downstream teammates for breaks and lunches.
Use forklift to move pallets of finished product to stretch wrap machines to stretch wrap them and to staging area after wrapping, or to specify warehouse location.
Completes finished goods report or worksheet.
Maintain supplies of corrugated and other packaging supplies at each machine.
Visually inspect all completed pallets of product for quality and conformity to the packaging instructions to ensure quality at the source.