Basic Job Concept:

Positively impact people! In this role you will effect change, be yourself, and have a positive impact on our company our community and our future!

Who You Are:

You are self-motivated. You thoroughly enjoy creating world class customer experience, resolving problems, and finding ways to make people’s days better. You love people, processes, and performance. You believe in the power of ‘team’ and are driven by a sincere desire to see others succeed. You are a change agent, live culture, and believe in community.

General Summary:

A Day Warehouse Forklift Driver performs a critical role in our logistics process by unloading product shipments from suppliers, staging product, replenishing product within the warehouse and loading trucks when necessary. This individual also ensures proper reporting, product allocation, and compliance with all Food Safety/SQF policies and procedures. In addition, we all work to maintain cleanliness in the warehouse.

What You’ll Do:

• Operate all equipment in a safe manner; this includes forklift, pallet jacks, electric pallet jacks/ride on and vehicles. Perform pre-use (pre-trip) inspection of all equipment prior to use and report any issues/damage.
• Obey all safety standards for the warehouse.
• Utilize proper lifting techniques loading/unloading/delivering/receiving product.
• Unload trucks properly, place product in allocated warehouse slots, replenish product as needed, load trucks when required.
• Ensure any frozen product is placed in freezer at time of receipt.
• Maintain accuracy of product ordered to product loaded/unloaded.
• Ensure product rotation in a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) method.
• Make sure of pallet integrity – that all pallets are wrapped, not broken and are stable.
• Have fun and be a part of making Foster-Caviness amazing!!!

What You’ll Bring to the Table:

• A sincere passion for positively impacting people and making work, fun (this is first on the list for a reason!)
• Insightful, meaningful, relevant customer service skills and experience.
• Experience operating a forklift and pallet jacks (Raymond, Crown, Yale) safely.
• Experience utilizing an RF scanner to maintain product and warehouse integrity.
• Ability to lift 50 pounds on a regular basis, and do so safely.
• A clean background and ability to pass pre-employment drug testing.
• Ability to perform these functions in a cold warehouse environment.
• Flexibility in your schedule to include weekends.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Perform logistical tasks of unloading and loading trucks, ensuring product is placed in the warehouse in the approprate slot, pull orders when needed and replenishing product as needed, using the FIFO method.
• Provide safe operation of equipment to include vehicle/equipment as well as loading/unloading equipment.
• Ensure proper reporting is accurate and complete on a daily basis.
• Operate in an efficient manner to meet and exceed minimum pallets per hour processed.
• Maintain compliance with all Food Safety/SQF policies and procedures in place.

Note: The above job description is not intended to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required by the employee and are not to be construed as an expressed or implied contract of employment or a promise of employment for any specified time between an employee and Foster-Caviness. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities required due to the operating needs of the business.