Forklift Operator

Responsibilities

Summary:

Drives gasoline, liquified gas, or electric powered industrial truck equipped with lifting devices such as forklift, boom, scoop, lift beam and swivel hook, fork grapple, clamps, elevating platform, or trailer hitch, to push, pull, lift, stack, tier, or move products, equipment, or materials. Essential Functions: (Responsibilities, Tasks, Supervisory Needs)

• Moves levers and presses pedals to drive truck and control movement of lifting apparatus.
• Positions forks, lifting platform, or other lifting device under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, boxes, products, or materials and transports load to designated area.
• Unloads and stacks material by raising and lowering lifting device.
• Inventories materials on work floor, and supply workers with materials as needed.
• Weighs materials or products and records weight on tags, labels, or production schedules.
• Loads or unloads materials onto or off of pallets, skids, or lifting device.
• Lubricates truck, recharges/changes batteries, fills fuel tank, or replaces liquefied gas tank.
• May be assigned work in sub-zero freezer area with proper company PPE provided.

Trident Seafoods offers a comprehensive and quality benefits package. Full-time employees may be eligible for discretionary/performance-based incentives, medical, dental and vision insurance plans, optional HRA/HSA, telemedicine, employee assistance and wellness programs, long-term disability, basic life and AD&D, and 401(k) with a company match, paid time off, 10 paid holidays each year, and paid parental leave. For full-time employees, the initial paid time off benefit starts at 20 days per year, adjusted commensurate with relevant experience. Commuter and transit programs are also available.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: (Education, Years of Experience, Certifications)

• Three to six months experience driving forklifts.
• Must be forklift certified, or able to become forklift certified.

Preferred Education & Experiences:

• One year certificate from college or technical school; or three to six months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):

• Ability to safely operate powered industrial truck equipped with lifting devices such as forklift, boom, scoop, lift beam and swivel hook, fork grapple, clamps, elevating platform, or trailer hitch, to push, pull, lift, stack, tier, or move products, equipment, or materials.
• Compliance with all Trident policies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Work environment:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet, humid and cold conditions, and moving mechanical parts.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. May be required to distinguish shades of color to identify abnormalities and/or defects in food products.

Trident Seafoods provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.