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Forklift Operator

States Logistics Services
Buena Park, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/31/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/1/2026

Now Hiring: Forklift Operator - 3rd Shift

Compensation to Start: $ $26.75 (depending on experience) $1.50 shift differential

3rd Shift: Sunday- Thursday / 7:00pm - 3:30am This position may require overtime of 10 hrs based on client volume

Qualifications:

  • While we will consider candidates with no experience, we would strongly prefer at least six (6) months of related experience in a warehouse environment.
  • Must be able to work required overtime on a regular basis including 10 hour shifts, extra days, weekends, and holidays.
  • Good attendance and punctuality: must show up on time, work scheduled shifts, work mandatory overtime, etc.
  • Must be willing to do anything and everything needed to succeed
  • Ability to multi-task in a fast-moving warehouse environment.
  • Able to speak and read work orders and understand/clarify verbal instructions.
  • Able to do the following with or without reasonable accommodation: stand, walk, lift, twist, turn, lift/push/pull over 10 pounds regularly, and 50 pounds occasionally.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Read and accurately fill customer orders, shipping orders, or requisitions to determine items to be moved, gathered, distributed, and/or shipped.
  • Unload trucks, check in product, match purchase orders to sale orders, and assist shipping and receiving. Verifies list of products unloaded against purchase order to determine if all product was received and note if there are discrepancies (overages, shortages, damages).
  • Assemble customer orders on pallets and relocate them to holding or outbound staging area. May weigh and count items for distribution within warehouse to ensure company standards.
  • Ensure warehouse is accessible and safe for company and customer traffic. May be assigned facilities maintenance duties as needed (ex: sweep, dust, and mop). Including racking, re-configuration, and product consolidation.

Additional Benefits:

  • Advancement Opportunities- No degree required
  • Merit increases for performance
  • Paid Time Off (Vacation - accrued starting with first check; sick and holiday after 90 days of employment).
  • Holiday Premiums for holidays worked (no wait time for this benefit If your shift starts on a holiday, you'll receive a holiday premium even if you are in your first 90 days)
  • Low medical premiums for you and your family – The company covers 70%
  • Paid Life Insurance and AD&D.
  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) & 401K. (Employees own 42% stock in the company.)

Who We Are:

States Logistics Services, Inc. is a third-party logistics company (3PL) specializing in all aspects of supply chain management. Started in 1958, as a warehousing and trucking company with two customers, we have since grown to a fully integrated provider of third-party logistics services with an extensive client base. States Logistics currently has a combination of 13 public and contract warehouses in Southern California and Arizona servicing a wide range of industries. Our focus on service and operational execution has enabled us to be rated the "Best of the Best" within our customers' distribution networks. As an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) organization our employees are the shared owners of the company and are dedicated to delivering exceptional levels of service to our customers.

E-Verify

States Logistics Services Inc participates in E-Verify. All newly hired associates are queried through this electronic system established by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) to verify identity and employment eligibility.

States Logistics Services, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace.

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