Forklift Operator

About Gateway:

Gateway Terminal is a leading terminal on the East Coast strategically located in the Port of New Haven, Connecticut, providing turnkey vertically integrated logistics services for dry bulk, liquid bulk, and breakbulk products.

Gateway Job Descriptions

31 Waterfront Street
New Haven, CT 06512

FORKLIFT OPERATOR:

SUMMARY OF POSITION:

Operates forklift in a safe manner to stack and retrieve supplies and materials while maintaining inventory and ensuring production area organization and cleanliness

Principal Responsibilities:

1. Lift, stack, un-stack, and move utilizing safe practices with equipment
2. Make sure goods are stored in the correct area of a warehouse
3. Unload and load trucks from the warehouse
4. Load trucks ensuring loads are evenly and secured
5. Completes and submits Equipment Check List Form before utilizing any company equipment
6. Completes and submits written documentation as required
7. Maintain sanitation and housekeeping in the work area
8. Additional duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

1. Must be eligible to work in the United States without a Visa sponsorship
2. Must be 18 years or older
3. Ability to effectively operate independently with minimal supervision
4. Willing to work a flexible schedule
5. Ability to read, comprehend and carry out simple instructions from oral instructions or written correspondence
6. Must be able to work in a cold/hot environment
7. Detail oriented and accurate
8. Ability to communicate with diverse personalities
9. Forklift certification. Basic knowledge areas include Safety Procedures; Truck Inspections; Storage and Exchange Points; Counterbalance Effect; Stability Triangle; Center of Gravity; Equipment Terminology; Attachments/Load centers; Battery Inspection; and Material handling including loading and de-stacking, unloading, and stacking of counterbalance, traveling Ramps, Trailers and parking.
10. Knowledge and willingness to perform all responsibilities of each position within the team

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is required to stand; walk; use hands, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The work environment involves hazards, risks, or discomforts typical of working around with or around machinery with exposed moving parts, arrant chemicals, heavy equipment, extreme heights, or abusive or hostile clientele and patients. Exposure to disagreeable weather conditions and extreme levels of temperature, ventilation, lighting, and sound is normal. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.