Woodgrain is proud to be a family owned and operated manufacturer with over 65 years of product innovation, quality service, and business growth.

Woodgrain Millwork’s diverse product offering includes wood molding, prefinished molding, wood door shop parts and products, and wood window parts, as well as many branded products.

Woodgrain is a worldwide manufacturer and is proud to be one of the largest millwork operations today.

The Forklift Operator will load and unload company products and supplies from incoming and outgoing tractor trailers or other types of vehicles in a safe, timely, and quality manner.

All Woodgrain employees will be expected to exemplify the our core values and put Safety Above All.

Essential Duties, Responsibilities, Expectations and Performance Measures What measures or metrics will the individual be measured on and what level of performance is required?

Other duties may be assigned.

• Loads and unloads company product in a safe, timely, and quality manner.
• Prevents loading of product that is not suitable for shipping due to poor packaging, unitizing, or some other known quality problem.
• Ensures corner brackets are used on trucks. Maintains good rapport with truck drivers to improve process.
• Facilitates and performs airfreights when needed.
• Performs forklift preventative maintenance checks and attends forklift safety meetings.
• Identifies and corrects quality problems in own work.
• Keeps product staging areas clean.
• Performs responsibilities as assigned by sawmill coordinator.
• Moves product from wrap to packaging as time permits.
• Assists packaging with banding and off bearing as time permits.
• Maintain a clean and organized work area.
• Walk and stand for long periods of time, bend, twist, kneel, stoop and squat .
• Ascend and descend stairs / ladders.
• Abide by all safety / environmental policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Company Values

Which company values are critical for the successful performance of this role?

• Safety
• Integrity
• Servant Leadership
• Respect for People
• Customer Focus

Knowledge / Skills / Education and Continuous Training

What skills / certification / education must the individual have / maintain / gain? Include any degrees, certifications, and licenses required.

Education / Experience / Certification

• High School Diploma / GED (or higher).
• Requires two years full time experience driving forklift in a manufacturing environment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to participate as a team member and proactive in process environment.
• Must be a safety minded individual.
• Lifting and physical activity is required for this position.

Reporting Line and Supervisory Responsibilities

No supervisory responsibilities

Reports to Sawmill Coordinator.

The physical demands and work environment are representative of a typical sawmill environment. The employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts.

Noise levels are moderate to high depending on the area of the mill. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is often required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls;

reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk and hear. Requires close vision, distance vision, and depth perception.

Lifting and physical activity is required for this position, must be able to move boards and wood pieces. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds.

Last updated : 2024-04-26