Forklift Operator

Overview

• Loading, unloading, shipping, and receiving warehouse items.
• Transporting materials to different locations within the facility.
• Optimizing loads to ensure operational efficiency.
• Securing loads to the machine before transportation.
• Staying aware of possible hazards
• Maintaining/repairing maintenance on forklifts and other tools
• responsible for controlling heavy machinery to move materials around a work site
• duties include preparing merchandise and securing it for safe, easy transport, using radio communications to determine priorities
• can operate different types of lifting machinery such as pallet jacks, order pickers, side loaders, reach fork trucks and counterbalance forklifts