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Stand Up Forklift Driver - Military Veterans

at Lineage

🚨 Hiring Now: 2nd & 3rd Shift Opportunities! 🚨

💼 Shifts Available:

  • 3rd Shift: 11:00 PM - 7:00 AM (Includes a $1/hr Shift Differential!)

💰 Competitive Pay: $18.00 - $22.50/hr, based on experience.
🗓️ Schedule: Monday - Friday, with weekends free!

Skillfully operate electric-powered stand-up forklifts equipped with lifting devices to transport products, equipment, and materials efficiently and safely. Strictly adhere to all regulatory and company safety standards, policies, and procedures to maintain a safe work environment. Expertly handle the loading and unloading of materials onto and off pallets, skids, or lifting devices, ensuring accuracy and minimizing damage to goods. Demonstrate strong attention to detail and organizational skills to streamline warehouse operations.

Key Responsibilities That Make You Essential

  • Skillfully operate stand up forklifts, positioning forks or lifting platforms to safely handle loaded pallets, skids, boxes, and materials. Transport, load, and unload items to designated areas with precision.
  • Utilize a Radio Frequency (RF) system to efficiently list materials and record the weight, count, and condition of frozen food items.
  • Perform daily forklift maintenance and complete detailed check sheets to ensure peak performance.
  • Lead safety checks, including truck chalking and glad-hand processes, to uphold a safe work environment.
  • Collaborate with semi-truck drivers to implement and maintain strict safety precautions.
  • Monitor battery levels, clean and maintain batteries, and ensure material handling equipment is parked at the correct charging station.

Additional Contributions

  • Operate other machinery and material-handling equipment as needed, showcasing versatility and adaptability.

What You Bring to the Table

  • At least 6 months to 1 year of stand up forklift experience
  • Strong basic math skills for accurate material tracking.
  • Ability to understand and follow instructions in the official language of the country or as defined by Lineage Logistics.
  • Comfort working in cold storage environments (as low as -20°F/-25°C) or dry storage areas (up to 100°F/37°C) while equipped with company-provided protective gear.
  • Physical capability to lift at least 40 lbs./18 kgs., with higher weight requirements depending on the facility.
  • Willingness to work flexible schedules and shifts, including weekends, to meet business needs.
  • Adaptability to varying noise levels, from moderate to loud environments.

Why Lineage?
This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers' requirements. Beyond that, you'll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We'll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.

Lineage is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful harassment and retaliation.  Lineage will not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability or any other protected status under federal, state and local law.
Benefits

Lineage provides safe, stable, reliable work environments, medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits, 401k retirement plan, paid time off, annual bonus eligibility, and a minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year.

Friona, TX

Lineage

Lineage is the industry’s leading innovator in temperature-controlled supply chain and logistics. Lineage’s expertise in end-to-end logistical solutions, its unrivaled real estate network, and its use of technology combine to promote food safety, increase distribution efficiency, advance sustainability, lessen environmental impact, and minimize supply chain waste. As a result, Lineage helps customers ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small family-owned businesses increase the efficiency and protect the integrity of their temperature-controlled supply chain. In recognition of the company’s leading innovations, Lineage was recognized as the No 1. Data Science company on Fast Company’s Annual list of The World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2019, in addition to ranking 23rd overall in an evaluation of thousands of companies worldwide.

No doubt, the men and women who choose to serve in the armed forces are strong, passionate and committed to serving others. It is that sense of dedication and service that makes Lineage proud to welcome so many military veterans to our team.

At Lineage, we recognize the tremendous value of military veterans’ service – and therefore the unique skills and diverse experiences they bring to the table. We are proud to help eager veterans transfer those skills and experiences into on-the-job expertise here at Lineage.

From warehouse operations to engineering to human resources, Lineage has found time and again that veterans bring transferrable (and highly sought after) talent to the table whenever they walk in the door. That’s why Lineage is increasingly focused on bringing the best of the best from the veteran community into the Lineage family.

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