Forklift Operator - Tacoma - Georgia-Pacific

Are you looking for a career and not just a job? Does working in a positive, team-oriented environment motivate you? If so, check out what we have to offer! Georgia-Pacific Gypsum in Tacoma, WA has an immediate need for full-time Forklift Operator to work in a variety of departmental positions.

Compensation: These positions start at $23.73/hour with the opportunity of career advancement and compensation.

Georgia-Pacific offers a competitive benefits package to include vacation time and medical/dental/vision insurance.

Position Schedule:

8-hour shift, Monday-Friday

Day Shift - 5am-1:30pm

Swing Shift - 1pm-9:30pm

Night Shift - 4pm-12:30am

Our Team

Our Tacoma facility has a rich history producing gypsum wallboard for a wide variety of customers. Georgia-Pacific's Building Products business is consistently among the nation's top suppliers of building products to large warehouse retailers and building materials dealers. To learn more about our Building Products division, visit www.buildgp.com . And, to learn more about our gypsum products, visit www.gpgypsum.com.

What You Will Do

• Working as a team to exceed safety, production, and quality goals.
• Safely operating forklift and/or other machinery to complete tasks such as loading/unloading OTR's, moving product within the warehouse, loading/offloading rail cars and flat racks or prepping product to move via railcar/flat rack.
• Performing quality checks on products.
• Keeping work area clean before, during and after shift.
• Supporting our strict adherence to a safe working environment by wearing appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
• Utilizing hand tools and equipment while periodically handling product weights up to 50 pounds.
• Must be willing to work any shift.
• Conducting required pre-operating checks on forklift and equipment.
• Operating a forklift while using various attachments to move product such as forks, grabs, clamps, and push pull attachments.
• Ability to count product and read plots, load appropriately to reduce miss-shipments.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• A minimum of 1 year operating a forklift or other mobile equipment in a manufacturing, industrial, construction, farming, military, or warehouse environment.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Forklift Certification.
• Experience utilizing a forklift to load and unload trailers, trucks or rail cars.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf