Forklift Operator

**Job Description**
**GENERAL PURPOSE**

Operate gasoline, liquefied gas, or electric powered industrial truck equipped with lifting devices, such as forklift, boom, scoop, lift beam and swivel 'hook fork' grapple, clamps, elevating platform, or trailer hitch, to push, pull, lift, stack, tier, or move products, equipment, or materials in a warehouse, storage yard, or facility.

**JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

· Execute the loading and unloading of products in trailers

· Distribute pallets of product from the palletizer to distribution trailers and staging areas

· Stage materials for production

· Move product and materials within facility (plant and/or cooler)

· Receive materials for warehouse storage

· Supply packaging material, cartons, and hulls to line as needed

· Maintain pallet supply for palletizer

· Rotate packaging and ingredients using FIFO (First In – First Out)

· Ensure al...