Forklift Operator

Balcones Recycling; Tuscaloosa (AL); On-site; USD 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in recycling is seeking a Forklift Operator in Tuscaloosa, AL. The position involves driving powered industrial trucks to load and unload materials, ensuring safety and compliance with quality standards. Ideal candidates will have a strong focus on safety and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Entry-level position requiring a high degree of attention to prevent injuries.
• Must follow instructions and execute tasks safely and accurately.

Responsibilities

• Operate forklifts to move and store materials.
• Unload and load materials from various vehicle types.
• Perform equipment inspections and ensure daily safety.

Skills

Attention to safety

Ability to follow instructions

Timely execution

Cleanliness

Job description

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POSITION SUMMARY

The Forklift Operator drives powered industrial trucks to load and unload materials. This includes deliveries and moving materials to and from storage areas, machines and loading docks, into railroad cars or trucks or storage facilities.

Principal Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Follow daily production schedule or shipping order and transport material or equipment to and from designated areas in the facility
• Load and unload material from van trailers, flatbed trailers, box trucks, and railcars
• Operate forklift to place bales in inventory, load trailers or railcars
• Operate forklift to store bales, gaylord boxes, pallets, and crated materials in the correct storage bays, follow inventory control instructions
• Check to ensure all loads are secure
• Perform daily pre-shift equipment inspections, notifying supervisors of any deficiencies
• Helps with general warehouse cleanup at the end of each shift.
• Helps with processing equipment cleanup at the end of each shift.
• Inspects all materials inbound and outbound to verify conformance to quality standards
  
  

Job Posting Title Forklift Operator

Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY

The Forklift Operator drives powered industrial trucks to load and unload materials. This includes deliveries and moving materials to and from storage areas, machines and loading docks, into railroad cars or trucks or storage facilities.

Principal Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Follow daily production schedule or shipping order and transport material or equipment to and from designated areas in the facility
• Load and unload material from van trailers, flatbed trailers, box trucks, and railcars
• Operate forklift to place bales in inventory, load trailers or railcars
• Operate forklift to store bales, gaylord boxes, pallets, and crated materials in the correct storage bays, follow inventory control instructions
• Check to ensure all loads are secure
• Perform daily pre-shift equipment inspections, notifying supervisors of any deficiencies
• Helps with general warehouse cleanup at the end of each shift.
• Helps with processing equipment cleanup at the end of each shift.
• Inspects all materials inbound and outbound to verify conformance to quality standards
  
  

Required Skills & Abilities

• High degree of attention required to prevent injury to others; promote a safe work environment
• Able to follow instructions for operating equipment and record keeping
• Able to execute assignments in an accurate, timely and safe manner
• Able to maintain a clean & safe environment
  
  

Other Duties

All job requirements in this job description provided indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills, and/or abilities deemed necessary to perform the job competently. Job descriptions are an overview of the duties, responsibilities, and requirements of the position. Employees may be required to perform other job-related assignments as requested.

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Extensively use hands and fingers to manage or operate objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms
• Frequently required to sit, walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, squat, kneel, crawl, speak and hear. Regular sitting on a powered industrial truck
• Frequently lift to fifty pounds and adjust body position to bend, stoop, stand, walk, turn, pivot, and stand for extended periods of time
• Vision abilities include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus
• Having a good sense of balance
• Having good eye-hand-foot coordination
• Ability to assess weights and judge distances and heights
• Abilityto work in varying temperatures, depending upon season
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud
  
  

Circular Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Circular Services is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Circular Services are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Circular Services will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

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