Forklift Operator

Description

Operate industrial trucks or tractors equipped to move materials around a warehouse, storage yard, factory, construction site, or similar location.

Job Summary:

This position reports to the Department Supervisor.  The ideal candidate should be a certified forklift operator and have experience in a similar position. Detail-oriented and team player.

Responsibilities:

• Accident prevention – actively identify, correct and/or report safety hazards to prevent accidents.
• Actively identify and pursue cost reduction and efficiency/profit improvement opportunities.
• Support the ISO 9001 Quality Management System and the Sea Box Quality Policy calling for self-inspection of your work product.
• Inspect containers, and safely move it around the facility to ensure timely and complete delivery. 
• Move controls to drive forklift, top loader, and transport materials between loading, processing, and storage areas. 
• Move levers and controls that operate lifting devices, such as forklifts, lift beams and swivel-hooks, hoists, and elevating platforms, to load, unload, transport, and stack material. 
• Position lifting devices under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, and boxes, and secure material or products for transport to designated areas. 
• Manually or mechanically load and unload materials from pallets, skids, platforms, cars, lifting devices, or other transport vehicles.  
• Perform routine maintenance on vehicles and auxiliary equipment, such as cleaning, lubricating, recharging batteries, fueling, or replacing liquefied-gas tank. 
• Weigh materials or products, and record weight and other production data on tags or labels. 
• Operate or tend automatic stacking, loading, packaging, or cutting machines. 
• Turn valves and open chutes to dump, spray, or release materials from dump cars or storage bins into hoppers. 
• Signal workers to discharge, dump, or level materials.
• Lifting production objects of up to 50lbs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Must be able to fulfill essential job function in a consistent state of alertness and safe manner.

Why work for Sea Box?

We offer benefits to our full-time employees that include:

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Basic and Voluntary Life
• Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays, Bereavement, Jury Duty 
• 401(k) with company match
• Employee Referral Program

Employees are eligible for most benefits on the 1st of the month following date of hire. 

Hourly Rate Range: $22.00 - $27.00 / hour

Location: This position is onsite (non-remote) at the Company’s corporate headquarters in Cinnaminson, NJ. This position may occasionally require working overtime and/or working outside of the Company’s normal hours of operation. 

Requirements

Education: High school diploma or equivalent.

Experience:  The candidate should possess 1-2 years' related experience. Experience operating 10-30k lift capacity and 6-9ft. forklifts.