What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forklift Operator position at McCain Foods?
Position Title: Forklift Operator Apps
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Grade: 4C
Requisition ID: 41427
Location: Plover, WI (Snacking/Appetizer Facility)
Shift: Nights (6pm-6am 2-2-3) AND Days (6am-6pm 2-2-3) each available
About The Role
McCain Foods is accepting applications for a Forklift Operator position at the Plover, WI plant. This role supports warehouse, production, and shipping operations by safely transporting materials, managing inventory, and ensuring product flow in compliance with safety, GMP, and company standards.
What you’ll be doing
Click here to learn more about McCain and how we provide opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience
We are McCain. This statement reflects our collective strength and individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
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Compensation Package: - Starting at 24.44 USD hourly Bonus eligibility Hourly Pay Differential for applicable shifts
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support, including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with the Collective Agreement, country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefits details available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Manufacturing
Location(s): US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Plover
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Grade: 4C
Requisition ID: 41427
Location: Plover, WI (Snacking/Appetizer Facility)
Shift: Nights (6pm-6am 2-2-3) AND Days (6am-6pm 2-2-3) each available
About The Role
McCain Foods is accepting applications for a Forklift Operator position at the Plover, WI plant. This role supports warehouse, production, and shipping operations by safely transporting materials, managing inventory, and ensuring product flow in compliance with safety, GMP, and company standards.
What you’ll be doing
- Operate forklifts to unload inbound shipments and transport ingredients, packaging, and finished goods throughout the facility
- Verify incoming loads, seals, and Bills of Lading (BOL); print labels and maintain accurate receiving and shipping documentation
- Supply production and packing lines with required materials and move finished goods to storage freezers or trailers
- Maintain inventory accuracy through proper rotation (FEFO), pallet tracking, quality callbacks, and system documentation
- Promote workplace safety, maintain clean and orderly work areas, follow GMPs, and assist Production or Warehouse leadership as needed
- 1–2 years of forklift experience with a demonstrated record of safe operation; ability to earn forklift certification required
- Ability to work independently while supporting a team‑based operation in a fast‑paced environment
- Basic computer skills; SAP experience preferred for receiving, shipping, and pallet tracking
- Strong attention to detail, time management, and communication skills
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Willingness to cross‑train, work 12‑hour shifts and operate in cold environments
- Prolonged standing and sitting with frequent use of hands, bending, reaching, and grasping
- Occasional walking, squatting, kneeling, pushing, and pulling
- Ability to safely operate forklifts and warehouse equipment
- Capability to lift, carry and handle materials up to approximately 50 lbs
- Physical endurance for an active manufacturing and warehouse setting
- Paid Holidays and PTO
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- 401k with 6% employer match
- Adoption and Infertility Assistance
- Education Reimbursement Assistance and more
Click here to learn more about McCain and how we provide opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience
We are McCain. This statement reflects our collective strength and individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
TN1
Compensation Package: - Starting at 24.44 USD hourly Bonus eligibility Hourly Pay Differential for applicable shifts
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support, including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with the Collective Agreement, country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefits details available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Manufacturing
Location(s): US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Plover
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.