Forklift Operator

Job Description

Job Description

About Gateway :

Gateway Terminal is a leading terminal on the East Coast strategically located in the Port of New Haven, Connecticut, providing turnkey vertically integrated logistics services for dry bulk, liquid bulk, and breakbulk products.

Gateway Job Descriptions

31 Waterfront Street

New Haven, CT 06512

FORKLIFT OPERATOR :

SUMMARY OF POSITION :

Operates forklift in a safe manner to stack and retrieve supplies and materials while maintaining inventory and ensuring production area organization and cleanliness

Principal Responsibilities :

• Lift, stack, un-stack, and move utilizing safe practices with equipment
• Make sure goods are stored in the correct area of a warehouse
• Unload and load trucks from the warehouse
• Load trucks ensuring loads are evenly and secured
• Completes and submits Equipment Check List Form before utilizing any company equipment
• Completes and submits written documentation as required
• Maintain sanitation and housekeeping in the work area
• Additional duties as assigned

Required Qualifications :

PHYSICAL DEMANDS / WORK ENVIRONMENT :

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is required to stand; walk; use hands, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The work environment involves hazards, risks, or discomforts typical of working around with or around machinery with exposed moving parts, arrant chemicals, heavy equipment, extreme heights, or abusive or hostile clientele and patients. Exposure to disagreeable weather conditions and extreme levels of temperature, ventilation, lighting, and sound is normal. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.