Forklift Operator 3

Lakeside Book Company•Owensville, MO

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The company is seeking a Forklift Operator to join their team. This role is crucial for maintaining inventory accuracy and ensuring the smooth movement of materials within the warehouse and factory. The company emphasizes a strong safety culture and environmental responsibility, welcoming veterans to apply. The position involves operating a forklift to move raw paper materials, in-process products, and finished goods, as well as loading and unloading trucks. The role also requires performing safety checks on the forklift and maintaining accurate inventory records.

Requirements

Proven experience in the handling of controls for driving forklift and/or clamp trucks.
Must be skilled in handling controls for starting, stopping, backings, and driving forklift trucks through narrow aisles in building, up and down ramps, and in and out of railroad cars, trucks, etc.; and, for lifting, lowering, and tilting forks by moving hands, arms, feet, and legs to operate controls.
Must know how high, wide, and long the forklift truck and its load are, and how much the forklift truck can lift.
Good spatial ability to identify how high and wide a doorway and an aisle must be to drive the forklift truck and its load; how high and wide the shelf, bin, etc., must be to place the load; and how high the load must be lifted to reach the shelf or bin.
Knowledge of the layout of the storage area to be able to find and place items without need for detailed instructions.
Skilled in moving forklift trucks about in places where there is very little room to stack or remove loads.
Job requires ability to exert 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Responsibilities

Drive forklift truck equipped with lifting devices such as forklift, clamps, or elevating platform, to push, pull, lift, stack, tier, or move raw paper materials and in process products and finished products, equipment, or materials in warehouse, storage yard, or factory.
May load and unload semi-trailer trucks.
Maintain accurate inventory and report any discrepancies.
May load or unload materials onto or off of pallets, skids, or lifting device.
Perform safety checks on lifts.
May lubricate truck, recharge batteries, fill fuel tank, or replace liquefied-gas tank.
Must be able to recognize whether the fork lift truck is able to lift the load and whether the load is properly balanced.