Warehouse Attendant

Job Summary

Operates powered industrial trucks in order to fill customer orders. Operates gasoline, 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 by performing the following duties.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions, physical demands, or work environment.

• Moves levers and presses pedals to drive truck and control movement of lifting apparatus.
• Stores finished goods and completed inventory transactions on vehicle computer terminal.
• Positions forks, lifting platform, or other lifting device under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, boxes, products, or materials or hooks tow trucks to trailer hitch, and transports load to designated area.
• Pulls finished goods for internal/external shipments.
• Loads or unloads materials onto or off of pallets, skids, or lifting device.
• Ensures that vehicle is in good operating condition, completes and documents daily safety check sheet, notifies supervisor of deficiencies.
• Records transactions using proper procedures on the RF terminals.
• Abides by all safety rules and regulations.
• Completes annual updates of OSHA required training as assigned by supervisor.
• Reports all safety malfunctions, near hits, and/or injuries to supervisor immediately.

Must possess two of the following four skills:

• Raymond pick-up vehicle certification
• Forklift license
• Perform merge requirements (demonstration required)
• Perform put away duties (demonstration required)

Previous experience operating powered industrial lift vehicles in a warehouse environment preferred.

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs, learn computer functions.

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

• Often required to sit and use hands and fingers to handle or feel
• Frequently required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and lift up to 50 lbs.
• Vision ability required include close vision
• Exposed to moving mechanical parts and vehicles
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to high.

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.