Forklift Operator
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Job Location:
Austin, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
3 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Forklift Operator
About Circular Services:
Circular Services is the largest privately held recycling and organics service provider in the U.S. It operates over 25 facilities serving major long-term municipal and commercial contracts. The mission of Circular Services is to keep valuable materials in circulation and minimize the cost and environmental impact of landfills. The company services municipal contracts with some of the largest and fastest growing cities in the U.S. including New York City Austin San Antonio and Phoenix.
About the Role:
The Forklift Operator drives 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.
Responsibilities:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
- Follow daily production schedule or shipping order and transport material or equipment to and from designated areas in the facility
- Load and unload goods from vehicles such as trucks
- Move goods packed on pallets or in crates around the storage facility
- Stack goods in the correct storage bays follow inventory control instructions
- Check to ensure loads are secure
- Stack empty pallets
- Perform daily equipment checks such as recharging the trucks battery and lubricating equipment
- Removing machine attachments and waste material from machines
- Examine products to verify conformance to quality standards
- Dump materials into machine hoppers
Minimum Job Qualifications:
- High School diploma or equivalent
- Forklift certification per OSHA standards
- Good math language and reading skills; basic computer skills may be required
- High degree of attention required to prevent injury to others; promote a safe work environment
- May be required to usea radio frequency (RF) scanner gun
- Clean driving record and a valid state motor vehicle operators license may be required
Preferred Job Qualifications:
- Able to follow instructions for operating equipment and keeping records
- Able to execute assignments in an accurate timely and safe manner
- Able to maintain a clean & safe environment
Working Conditions and Physical Requirements:
- Regularly use hands and fingers to handle or operate objects tools or controls and reach with hands and arms
- Frequently required to sit walk stand climb balance stoop squat kneel crawl speak and hear. Regular 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
- Vision abilities include close distance color and peripheral vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus
- Having a good sense of balance
- Having good eye-hand-foot coordination
- Ability to assess weights and judge distances and heights
- Abilityto work in varying temperatures depending upon season
- The noise level in the work environment is usually loud
Job Type: Full-time
- Shift: 9AM -6:00PM
Benefits:
- Paid Parental Leave
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- HSA/ FSA
- Paid time off
- Employee Assistance Program
- 401k matching
- Tuition Reimbursement
EEOC:Circular Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Circular Services is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Circular Services are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race color religion or belief national social or ethnic origin sex (including pregnancy) age physical mental or sensory disability HIV Status sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression marital civil union or domestic partnership status past or present military service family medical history or genetic information family or parental status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Circular Services will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
Key Skills
- Load & Unload
- Shipping & Receiving
- Forklift
- Basic Math
- Industrial Equipment
- Warehouse Experience
- Warehouse Distribution Experience
- Warehouse Management System
- Driving
- Reach Truck
- Clamp Truck
- RF Scanner
About Company
Balcones Recycling is on a mission to recover as much valuable material from our waste streams as possible. Achieve sustainable future through recycling.
