Warehouse Worker - Forklifts/ Shipping/ Loader

Job Description:

Job Title - Warehouse Team Member (WTM):

Essential Functions Overview

• Perform all job functions safely.
• Must be qualified to possess forklift operator’s license.
• While performing the duties of the job, employee will be regularly exposed to work in busy, high traffic areas therefore, employee must be aware of all surroundings.
• Must regularly lift, push or pull up to +50 lbs.
• Regularly exposed to a noisy environment.
• Work in and around machinery, moving vehicles and pedestrians.
• Must wear all required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including hearing protection, safety glasses, safety toed shoes, cut resistant gloves, bump cap or hard hat, hair net, and beard net (if applicable).

Duties include:

• Error freeloading and unloading of trailers.
• Accurate record keeping – Ability to fill out receiving tallies, Quality Control documents for Production and document product loaded out on trucks. Maintain accurate inventories levels of finish and packaging materials.
• Responsible for general housekeeping to ensure site standards are met in a safe and professional manner.
• Mopping and Sweeping Floors
• Using stretch wrap to cover pallets that the automatic system failed to cover.
• Picking up cases of product that have fallen off pallets weighing 10 lbs to 40 lbs.
• Restacking pallets that driver knocked over.  This could mean restacking 70 cases weighing 40 lbs.
• Setting manual dock plates by pulling on a chain to release spring.  Force necessary to release spring is at least 50 pounds of effort.
• During shift drivers require overhead pulling to get on and off lift to do paperwork and talk to truck drivers.  This could be 15 – 20 times / hour.
• Some of our dock doors are manual, a chain is used to lower and raise the large doors.   Force necessary to raise doors is at least 62 pounds of effort.
• Some of our trailer doors are manual roll up/down doors and require overhead pulling.
• Lifting, moving, adjusting pallets prior to forklift picking them up.
• Moving and dumping garbage and recycle bins.
• Occasionally moving inbound receipt boxes / etc.
• Assists with production line support activities as needed including strap cutting, scanning glass pallet tags, down bottle watching, insert watching, support and flap breaking, sleeve inspection, defect inspection, hand packing, and finished product rework.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Physical Aspects:

• Lifting: Minimum: 20 lbs constantly    Maximum: 100 lbs* occasionally
• Repetitive Motion: Frequently manipulating controls on forklift.  Constant entering and exiting forklift
• Dexterity: Frequent manipulating controls on forklift.  Frequent completion of paperwork
• Climbing: Minimal
• Standing/Sitting: Constant sitting.  Frequent standing.  Occasional bending
• Walking: Frequent
• Pushing: Frequent to close overhead dock and trailer door and to operate cleaning equipment.  
• Pulling: Constant pulling overhead to get on and off forklift, Frequent pulling overhead to close trailer and dock doors. Frequent pulling to raise dock plates.
• Vibration: Constant vibration from forklift operation.

Environment: Indoor, outdoor; subject to the following:

• Extreme cold, including icy conditions
• Extreme heat and humidity
• Occasional in climate weather
• Noise
• Wet, slippery 
• Lifting is performed with assistance of other workers / equipment.

Della Infotech Inc is in the staffing business for 10 years. Over the years, we have placed hundreds of candidates to various temp and permanent positions with our 50+ happy clients all over US and Canada including Fortune 500 corporations.