Entry Level Forklift Operator at Axelon Services Corporation

Workers will start as a loader/receiver and move into a fork truck driver role.

12 hour shifts 7am - 7pm or 7:00pm - 7am.
Will work 3 or 4 days on and then off the rest of the week.

Job Skills & Requirements:

• Education: High School Diploma.
• Positive Attitude: Consistently display positive behavior that supports the organization's goals and objectives. Must have demonstrated a safety-first attitude.
• Mechanical Skill: Must be clamp/lift truck qualified.
• Endurance: This job entails bending, walking, lifting, and climbing throughout the shift.
• Teamwork: Ability to work independently and in a team environment with minimal supervision.
• Adaptability: Highly flexible with the ability to adjust to the demands of the job, produce high quality work, and can be depended on to complete assigned tasks. Must be a self-starter.
• Communication: Communicate with others and provide information for planning, prioritizing and completion of tasks.
• Attendance: Good attendance record
• Hours: Follows shift schedule. Must be available for rotation shifts, overtime, and job family rotation

Job Description:
Safety:

• Safety-Related activities: participates in Safety Goals for department and mill, behavior and other audits, reports needed repairs, safety hazards, or conditions. Wear the proper safety equipment. Follows all safety rules and procedures
• Cleans warehouse and production areas including catwalks and trenches.
• Keeps work area clean
• Safety-Related activities: participates in Safety Goals for department and mill, behavior and other audits, reports needed repairs, safety hazards, or conditions. Wear the proper safety equipment.
• Must operate lift truck safely including the procedures for loading conveyor.
• Communicate operational, equipment, and safety concerns to supervision

Quality:

• Cleans warehouse and production areas including catwalks and trenches.
• Keeps work area clean
• Unloads of all raw material trucks in a timely fashion

• Loads conveyor belts
• Completes Raw Material Inventory control (SAP) and rotation, and organizing on pads and in building, including flatbeds
• Complies with all Raw Material Standard Operating Procedures including scanning bales according to recipe.
• Keeps track of loaded and unloaded status of trailers
• The more experienced loader on the day shift will record inventory and complete Inventory Reports, and a daily basis, including during shutdowns.
• Correctly loads and operates (as needed) pulper belts
• Completes Daily Checklist for fork truck.
• Document all non-conforming materials & notify Raw Materials Coordinator or Stock Prep Supervisor.
• Maintains and completes inventory on Monday, Friday
• Notifies the appropriate staff when equipment repairs are needed
• Snow removal when needed.
• Works with logistic manager about recipe and other concerns in warehouse
• Completes the spreadsheet, incident sheets daily
• Must be detail minded for the following:
  • Ensure no contaminants reach the pulper.
  • Ensure correct recipe of raw material ratios.
• Must be able to make decisions regarding good and poor raw materials.
• Follow all Down-grading/Rejection Procedures.
• Completes daily communication sheet.
• Must be willing to work a 12 hour shift.

5S/housekeeping:

• Keeps work area clean according to 5s program
• The house keeping of work areas
  • Pulper area,
  • Loading Docks,
  • Conveyors and
  • Compactors and the area around the Dumpster.
  • Ragger areas
  • Cleans outside of and under receiving docks.
• Sweeps out trailer after unloading

Other:

• Completes all other jobs as requested by the supervisor.