Forklift Operator/Material Handler

National Beverage Corp; Warren (MI); On-site; USD 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Sundance Beverage Company is seeking a warehouse associate with forklift experience to support loading, unloading, and palletizing operations. The role focuses on maintaining a clean, safe working environment and ensuring efficient material flow to production lines.

Responsibilities include loading and unloading trucks, performing safety checks, and documenting receipts and shipments while adhering to GMP standards and FIFO inventory control.

Qualifications

• High School or GED required.
• 2-3 years forklift experience required.
• Ability to lift 50 pounds.
• Flexible work schedule is needed.
• Ability to stand, sit or walk for extended periods.
• Ability to bend, reach and perform repeated lifting.
• Able to hear in a loud manufacturing environment.
• Good visual acuity for safety and quality checks.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a sanitary and clean working environment, including trash disposal and cleaning around the dock and warehouse spaces.
• Load and unload trucks with raw materials, finished products, equipment, and dunnage; stack pallets and feed bottles to the depalletizer.
• Perform 100% GMP-compliant safety inspections and ensure proper rotation of goods using FIFO.
• Work independently with minimal supervision and in hot or cold environments; support production lines and shift needs.

Skills

Forklift operation

Schedule flexibility

Physical stamina

Attention to detail

Hearing in loud environments

Vision awareness

Education

High School diploma or GED

Job description

Job Duties

Maintain a sanitary and clean working environment including the dumping of trash and cleaning around the compactor, shipping dock, stretch wrapper areas, and all warehouse spaces.

Responsible for loading and unloading trucks with raw materials, finished products, equipment, and dunnage. Must load empty pallets into the palletizer, offload and stretch wrap and properly stack full pallets, remove dunnage from the depalletizer, and feed bottles to the depalletizer. This must be done in a safe an efficient manner as to keep the production lines running at all times. Must make warehouse product space by consolidating product and making room for future production runs, including the next flavor, package or the next shift’s production.

Responsible for conducting a safety inspection of hilos, inspecting loads for cleanliness and quality, ensuring trailer and container tags seals are intact, using FIFO procedures to ensure proper rotation of full goods and raw materials, accurately recording receipts and shipments on documents and in a computerized system.

Must be capable of 100% continuous compliance to Good Manufacturing Practices and working safely, of working independently and with little direction from management, of working in hot and cold environments, keeping the work areas clean, and performing other tasks as assigned by your supervisor.

Job Qualifications

• High School or GED required
• 2-3 years forklift experience required
• Ability to work a flexible work schedule
• Ability to lift 50 pounds
• Ability to stand, sit or walk for extended periods of time
• Ability to bend, reach and repeated lifting
• Must be able to hear and distinguish sounds and noises in a loud manufacturing environment
• Must have acuity in both straight and peripheral vision
• Ability to withstand frequent drastic changes in temperature

Sundance Beverage Company provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, gender, genetics, gender identity or sexual orientation.