FORKLIFT DRIVER
Position Summary
Affiliated Foods is seeking safety-conscious individuals for Forklift Driver positions at its Amarillo distribution center. Forklift Drivers are responsible for moving, storing, staging, and retrieving products throughout the warehouse and play an important role in keeping inventory and customer orders moving efficiently through the distribution operation.
This position operates powered material-handling equipment in an active warehouse environment and works closely with receiving, inventory, order selection, shipping, and other distribution center personnel.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Safely operate forklifts and other assigned powered material-handling equipment.
- Load, unload, move, stage, stack, and store palletized merchandise throughout the distribution center.
- Transport incoming products from receiving areas to designated storage locations.
- Retrieve products from warehouse storage locations for replenishment, order selection, or shipment.
- Replenish picking locations and help ensure products are available to support order-selection operations.
- Position pallets and merchandise accurately within designated warehouse locations.
- Assist with loading and unloading trailers or staging products for outbound transportation when assigned.
- Verify product, pallet, quantity, or location information when moving merchandise.
- Inspect loads for stability and identify damaged products, pallets, or packaging.
- Perform required equipment checks and report equipment problems or unsafe conditions.
- Maintain awareness of pedestrians, other equipment, storage racks, dock areas, and changing conditions while operating equipment.
- Follow established traffic patterns, equipment procedures, warehouse safety practices, and product-handling requirements.
- Help maintain clean and organized warehouse and staging areas.
- Support inventory, receiving, shipping, and general warehouse operations as needed.
Work Environment
Forklift Drivers work in a busy grocery distribution environment with regular movement of employees, powered industrial equipment, pallets, trailers, and merchandise. Depending on assignment, employees may work in dry, refrigerated, or other temperature-controlled warehouse areas.
The position requires sustained attention while operating equipment and may also involve standing, walking, bending, reaching, climbing on and off equipment, and handling merchandise as part of normal warehouse operations.
Skills and Abilities
Successful candidates should be able to:
- Operate material-handling equipment safely and responsibly.
- Maintain control and awareness while working in congested warehouse areas.
- Follow warehouse location, inventory, and product-handling procedures.
- Read and understand product, pallet, inventory, and location information.
- Position and move loads accurately without damaging merchandise, equipment, or facilities.
- Recognize unsafe conditions and take appropriate action.
- Work effectively with receiving, shipping, inventory, and warehouse employees.
- Follow instructions and established operating procedures.
- Maintain dependable attendance and consistent work performance.
Qualifications
Previous forklift, warehouse, distribution, shipping, receiving, inventory, or material-handling experience may be helpful. Any required equipment authorization or training must be completed in accordance with Affiliated Foods' requirements before operating applicable equipment.
Specific experience requirements, schedules, physical requirements, and other position qualifications will depend on the opening available.