Forklift operator

Job Description

Time Type

Part time

Role Details

Time Type : Part Time

Starting Pay : $16 / HR

Job Location : 1702 West 16th Street, Mount Pleasant, TX 75455

• Answers questions, identifies and directs customer to building materials and supplies in the yard and warehouse.
• Cuts lumber, screening, glass, and related materials to size requested by customer.
• Operates forklift safely and effectively to load, unload and move materials in the yard and warehouse.
• Assists customer in loading purchased materials safely and accurately into customer's vehicle. Verifies load ticket to ensure accuracy with purchased materials.
• Follows established loading and ticket procedures as listed in the Standard Operating Procedures.
• Informs store management or personnel of any customer complaints or requests in a timely manner.
• Listens to and resolves service complaints.
• Loads product on to store delivery trucks for delivery and transfer.
• Moves materials and supplies from receiving area to yard or warehouse.
• Marks prices on merchandise signs or labels according to current system prices.
• Square stacks materials on display to maintain safe and orderly conditions in all areas on a daily basis.
• Covers exposed materials, when required, to prevent weather damage.
• Assists with unloading deliveries as needed.
• Performs routine safety check on forklifts according to company guidelines.
• Maintains the cleanliness and appearance of the yard by keeping ground free of clutter including bands, chocks and trash.
• Maintains inventory and displays within assigned area to merchandising standards by stocking, facing, straightening, and cleaning or any other task necessary to maintain appearance and salability of items.
• Performs routine customer vehicle audits, when assigned, for loaded merchandise when customers are leaving the lumberyard by matching what has been loaded to what was purchased on the loading receipt.
• Complies with all company safety standards.
• Follows Standard Operating Procedures while carrying out the responsibilities of position.
• Attends all store meetings and training sessions.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence.

Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

• Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Must successfully pass all Company training regarding equipment usage, including obtaining the forklift certification.

WORK AVAILABILITY

• Must maintain regular and acceptable attendance at such level as is determined by management.
• Must be regularly available and willing to work at least 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week or such other hours per day or hours per week as the employer determines are necessary or desirable to meet business needs.
• Must be available and willing to work such overtime per day or per week as the employer determines is necessary or desirable to meet business needs.
• Must be available and willing to work such weekends and holidays as the employer determines are necessary or desirable to meet its business needs.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel;

reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee must frequently lift and / or move up to 50-60 pounds and occasionally lift and / or move up to 100 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and / or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts;
• high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; extreme cold;

and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

McCoy's is an equal opportunity employer. Equal access to programs, services and employment is available to all persons. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in the application and / or interview process should contact a representative of the People Development Department at (866) 896-0884. EOE, AAP, D, F, VA

Last updated : 2024-05-29