Forklift Operator

Basic Function:

Forklift Driver moves product and material safely and efficiently in the warehouse area, or in shipping and receiving using material handling equipment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Use sit down forklift and stand-up forklift as required to safely transport product and material among loading, processing and storage areas and to load and unload trucks.
• Use Warehouse Management System to maintain transactions that validate the processing and disposition of product and materials sent to the warehouse. Use RF scanner to scan transactions to the system.
• Load and unload product and material manually or mechanically from pallets or skids for transport to designated areas
• Pick and stage orders to be shipped and create and generate and attach label as required
• Perform and document daily inspection of the forklift and other material handling equipment and follow reporting procedure to communicate and resolve any maintenance or safety issues
• Record data on specified forms and complete required documentation
• Assist with training new warehouse employees
• Assist with daily, monthly and year end cycle counts
• Perform housekeeping and sanitation tasks to maintain a clean and maintain an orderly work area
• Comply with all company policies and procedures including GMP, PPE, HACCP, and JSA regulations
• Responsible for ensuring, where applicable, the product safety, quality, regulatory compliance and legality of all products produced and sold

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:

• Education: Less than high school diploma, but previous work-related skill, knowledge, and experience is needed.
• Experience: A minimum one-year forklift experience in a manufacturing environment
• Certification/ Licenses: Must successfully complete forklift certification requirements and complete process specific clamp truck certification, as required

Other Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

OTHER: Ability to use RF scanner for WMS transactions and to ensure accuracy of inventory. Ability to operate manual pallet jack and/or electric pallet jack.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read, understand, and comprehend documents such as Safety Rules, forklift operating and maintenance instructions, material handling, and quality procedure documents. Ability to communicate with supervisors and others in work area.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Basic mathematics (i.e. counting)

Working Conditions:

• Working Environment: Safety glasses with side shields, hearing protection, and steel-toed shoes are required. In addition, task specific PPE may be required.
• Physical Demands: The following is a general overview and is used in conjunction with the process specific Physical Requirements document.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may continuously remain in a stationary position, bend, use hands and fingers to operate controls. The employee may frequently use arms to reach. The employee may occasionally push and pull, and communicate.
• The employee may occasionally move and position up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

What makes Sabert a great place to work:

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We are a leading global manufacturer of innovative food packaging products and solutions. The company was founded in 1983 grounded in the purpose of reinventing food packaging to nourish and protect our world. Today we design, manufacture, and distribute a wide spectrum of packaging solutions for food distributors, restaurants & caterers, grocery stores, national food chains and consumer entertaining.

We're committed to providing reasonable accommodation for applicants with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process, to learn more about accommodations please call (732) 721-5544 or email HR2@sabert.com for assistance. Please do not send resumes to the above email address, applications submitted via email will not be considered unless specifically invited to do so.

Sabert Corporation is an equal employment opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ancestry, marital status, being a qualified individual with a disability, protected veteran status, political belief or activity, or any other basis prohibited by law or regulation.