Forklift Driver

Company Overview: For over 70 years, Kellermeyer Bergensons Services (KBS) has delivered best-in-class property services to major retailers and commercial facilities across the United States. Our core services are janitorial, facilities repair and maintenance, landscape management, and parking lot maintenance services. Kellermeyer Bergensons is reliable, cost-effective, and professional. Our property services offerings allow our customers the option to bundle a combination of services or to select single services.

Job Summary: Operate powered industrial trucks to load and unload materials and deliveries and move them to and from storage areas, machines, and loading docks, into railroad cars or trucks or storage facilities.

These are hourly, non-exempt, positions. Se Habla Español.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday; available to work weekends.

Pay$16.28

930pm to 7am

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Safely operate tugger. Separate containers to include scrap metal, wood, car parts and other recyclables. Bale plastic and cardboard, dispose of trash into compactors, load the wood, tire and plastic trucks, perform trailer inspection. Pick up items throughout the plant.
• Wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) and follow all safety protocols
• Operate forklifts and tugs in a safe manner.
• Complete prior-use checklist
• Separate metal scrap, wood pallets, and gondolas
• Deliver scrap metal and nonhazardous material to the appropriate destinations
• Transport barrels, gaylords, and tire bands throughout the plant
• Complete trailer inspections on all trailers before loading and report and damage found
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualification requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Good math, language and reading skills; basic computer skills may be required
• A high degree of attention is required to prevent injury to others; promote a safe work environment
• Follow instructions for operating equipment and keeping records
• Execute assignments in an accurate, timely and safe manner
• Maintain a clean & safe environment
• Clean driving record and a valid state motor vehicle operator’s license may be required
• Forklift certification per OSHA standards

Physical demands and abilities

• Regularly sitting on a powered industrial truck
• Frequently lift up to 50 pounds and adjust body position to bend, stoop, stand, walk, turn, pivot, and stand for long periods of time
• Having a good sense of balance
• Having good eye-hand-foot coordination
• Ability to assess weights and judge distances and heights

KBS considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, and expression, marital or military status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. KBS also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.

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