Position Summary:

Warehouse team member, you are the cornerstone of our company's achievements. Your active, secure, and autonomous efforts are instrumental in upholding the smooth progression of products through our distribution procedures, all the while upholding our exacting quality benchmarks. In your role as a Forklift Operator, you will be responsible for maneuvering material handling machinery, including forklifts, pallet jacks, reach trucks, and more.
The Forklift Operator is responsible for moving freight from staging zones to designated storage slots on multi-level racks within the designated warehouse section. This must be done promptly and in adherence to safety regulations, and quality protocols. This role also involves restocking pick slots to sustain a smooth production process. Collaborating as a team member within the department and the wider organization is expected, along with the willingness to undertake any assigned tasks that contribute effectively to the company's interests.

• Able to lift, stack, and/or pull products off shelves, as well as replenish product, from various heights.
• Able to work in multi-temperature environments, i.e. cooler, freezer and dry.
• Assist in picking when needed.
• Puts on all required Personal Protective Equipment and Safety Gear.
• Meet required productivity and accuracy standards per location and company guidelines.
• Performs general housekeeping duties in work area as needed.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Steel toe or composite closed-toe shoes (protective safety footwear) are required in select business units.
• Must be able to meet predictable attendance and punctuality expectations and physical demands of the position complying with Ethnix Group’s policies and performance expectations.

Organizational Responsibilities:
Follows established policies and procedures by monitoring and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, organizational standards, and operational processes related to area(s) of responsibility and reporting violations or infractions to appropriate individual(s).
Practices proper safety techniques in accordance with Company, warehouse, and departmental policies, procedures, and standards by immediately reporting any mechanical or electrical equipment malfunctions, employee/visitor injuries or accidents, or other safety issues to appropriate individual(s).

Work Hours (may vary by state or location):
This position is scheduled as full time. Hours of operation vary by site and shift. Must be available to work overtime and assigned shifts. Must be able to perform the essential job functions unaccompanied.

Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Language Ability:
Demonstrated ability to read, write, and communicate effectively to comprehend and complete documents and answer questions in English. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence as needed.

Math Ability:
Demonstrated mathematical skills necessary to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers, decimals, and fractions, and calculate percentages.

Reasoning Ability:
Demonstrated ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills:
Demonstrated proficiency in software and able to use WMS and related software’s.

Certificates and Licenses:
Motorized pallet jack certified preferred.

Supervisory Responsibilities:
This job does not have supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Incumbents work in an warehouse environment where temperature may vary in some parts of the warehouse (cooler/freezer), but also have frequent exposure to outside elements where temperature, weather, odors, and/or landscape may be unpleasant and/or hazardous. You’ll be working around moving machines – order pickers, stand-up forklifts, turret trucks, and mobile carts. Depending on the weather, temperatures can be over 90°F in the truck yard or inside trailers.

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, type, handle or feel objects, talk, and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms, climb, stoop, and squat. The employee is intermittently required to sit. Incumbents must be able to physically access all exterior and interior parts of the warehouse and amenities.
Must be able to push, pull, lift, carry, or maneuver weights of up to fifty (50) pounds independently and one hundred (100) pounds with assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.