What are the responsibilities and job description for the Yard Dog Operator position at Abbeville Fiber?
Summary : Responsible for moving and transporting trailers and ensuring trailers are ready for loading and unloading. May drive industrial forklift truck to push, pull, lift, stack, tier, or move products, equipment, or materials by performing the following duties.
Safety-Sensitive Position: The Company considers this job position to be safety-sensitive in nature based on the position’s job duties and responsibilities and/or the work environment and conditions that the job is performed in or under. This position requires performance of job duties and responsibilities that could result in a risk or direct threat of immediate injury or harm to the employee and his/her co-workers, or others.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities : include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Operate machinery including forklift as needed
Move trailers into specific locations for loading and unloading
Moves levers and presses pedals to drive truck and control movement of lifting apparatus.
Positions forks, lifting platform, or other lifting device under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, boxes, products, or materials and transports load to designated area.
Unloads and stacks material by raising and lowering lifting device.
Inventories materials on work floor, and supplies workers with materials as needed.
Weighs materials or products and records weight on tags, labels, or production schedules.
Unloads material from commercial truck flatbed trailers, stages material in the white yard inventory, and loads product onto tram for processing.
Monitors trams and production of cylinders to ensure efficient flow of material through equipment.
Lubricates truck, recharges batteries, and fills fuel tank.
Assists in housekeeping and clean-up activities as needed.
Assists in picking up lumber and other materials due to spills.
Keeps material stacked evenly, safely and in an organized manner.
Supervisory Responsibilities :
This job has no supervisory responsibilities.