POSITION SUMMARY:

Operate lift truck outside in the yard to support facility operations.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Adheres to safety, food safety, quality and legal compliance.
• Perform all work in accordance with environmental, health and safety standards, rules, regulations and practices of the facility.
• Must be able to pass training/certifications as required for qualification.
• Must be able to read batch pick sheets, pull products and supplies.
• Must be able to supply production department.
• Must be able to ship and receive all materials on trucks and rail cars.
• Must be able to connect and disconnect rail cars and bulk tankers to flow panels.
• Must be able to read and understand bills of lading.
• Must be able to store, inventory and keep stock in proper rotation.
• Must be able to understand and support the recycling and sustainability efforts of the facility.
• Must be able to control and clean up spill on the yard.
• Document completed work as required by the supervisor.
• Compliance with all other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBLITIES:

       - None.

PHYSICAL AND VISUAL ACTIVITIES:

• Ability to operate sit down lift trucks.
• Reach horizontally and vertically for material/product.
• Remove unusable product from conveyors, pallets, boxes or floor.
• Lift cases of product or ingredient packaging.
• Ability to visually differentiate items of color, up close and in the distance.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to wear personal protective equipment and/or clothing.
• Sit 8 or more hours per day.
• Stand/walk 7 or more hours per day.
• Constantly using eye/hand and eye/hand/foot coordination while operating lift truck and the computer system.
• Constantly handle/finger, grip/grasp and use fine motor tasks while operating lift truck and computer system.
• Constantly talk/hear and taste/smell.
• Frequently bend, reach, twist/turn and climb.
• Occasionally squat.
• Occasionally lift less than 5 lbs from floor to overhead and carry 30 feet.
• Occasionally lift up to 50 lbs from floor to shoulder and carry 30 feet.
• Occasionally lift up to 100 lbs from floor to shoulder and carry 5 feet.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.

ENVIRONMENTAL/ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS:

• Constantly work in damp, wet, humid and slippery environments.
• Constantly work near moving equipment with fumes or airborne debris.
• Constantly work with toxic or caustic chemicals.
• Constantly work in extreme heat/cold.
• Constantly work on equipment causing whole-body vibration.
• Occasionally work in high noise levels requiring hearing protection.
• Occasionally work in high places.

MACHINES/TOOLS/EQUIPMENT/SOFTWARE

• Bump cap, hair net, safety glasses, hearing protection, and uniform or smock.
• Thermal gloves.
• Sit down lift trucks.
• Knife and small hand tools.

REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• High school diploma or GED.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one small group situations to customers, clients, and other team members of the organization.
• Ability to use effective problem solving skills.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to use mathematical functions including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in accordance with production paperwork.
• Ability to perform these operations using units of weight measurement, volume, and distance.