Forklift Operator

Xpedient Logistics
  • Shorewood, IL
    Today

    Job Description

    Xpedient is a full-service 3rd party logistics provider. We have experience helping a diverse client base in warehousing services, transportation management, supply chain management, order fulfillment and labor needs.

    Shift: 7am - 3:30pm

    Summary

    Our Team Members operate powered industrial equipment such as stand-up and sit-down forklifts with fork or clamp attachments. Tasks loading/unloading pallets and cases, picking/staging orders, putting away pallets, and other general forklift work.

    Roles and Responsibilities

    • Conduct operations in a manner promoting safety
    • Sit-down lift experiences preferred
    • Minimum of 6 months of forklift and warehouse experience
    • Must be super-efficient in all tasks required
    • Put away inbound shipments/move product to storage locations using a forklift
    • Picking cases by the each onto pallets using the powered equipment
    • Prepare product for shipment ensuring the exact number and correct item is staged for loading
    • Keep appropriate records and reports for inventory accuracy
    • Report quality variances
    • Maintain the facility's equipment and materials in a neat, clean, and orderly fashion
    • Assist in any required physical inventories
    • Complete daily inspection of equipment
    • Perform additional duties as assigned by management
    • Ensure proper stock rotation
    • Satisfactory completion of a forklift training program
    • Comply with all OSHA and MSDS standards
    • Ability to read, understand and follow instructions, and to code applicable documents

    Qualifications

    • Must be able to pass Forklift Driving Skills test
    • This position requires lifting cases weighing from 20-45 pounds repeatedly throughout a long work period
    • 18 years or older
    • Working in a high-speed manufacturing environment (e.g., team-oriented, deadline driven, high performance demands, fast-paced, etc.)
    • Driving a forklift (e.g., performing basic operations such as driving forwards, driving backwards, lifting and lowering boom, maneuvering in tight areas without damaging product, etc.)
    • Working with racking systems and loading/unloading pallets (e.g., pulling and placing pallets on/off vertical product racking systems and trucks, maximizing storage by stacking products vertically, etc.)
    • Working with standards of operation (e.g., OSHA requirements on minimum/maximum speeds, signaling, putting products in appropriate areas, etc.)

    Safety:

    • Observe and follow health and safety regulations
    • Enforces operating instructions and safety policies.
    • Assist management in establishing warehouse standards and procedures
    • Maintain detailed records of safety incidents
    • Assign designated safety personnel
    • Maintain warehouse in a clean, safe, and orderly condition.

    XpedientLogistics is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

    Xpedientoffers competitive wages, insurance benefits (medical, dental, vision and life), paid time off and holidays.



    Compensation details: 19.75 Hourly Wage





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    Numbers & Facts

    LocationShorewood, IL

    Skills

    • Forkliftunmatched
    • Inventory Reportsunmatched
    • Loading/Unloadingunmatched
    • Manufacturingunmatched
    • OSHAunmatched
    • Order Picking/Packingunmatched
    • Order/Customer Fulfillmentunmatched
    • Pallet Jackunmatched
    • Physical Inventoryunmatched
    • Product Shipmentsunmatched
    • Record Keepingunmatched
    • Regulationsunmatched
    • Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
    • Stock Rotationunmatched
    • Supply Chain Managementunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Third-Party Logistics (3PL)unmatched
    • Time Managementunmatched
    • Training Programunmatched
    • Vehicle Drivingunmatched
    • Warehousingunmatched

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