Location: West Kingston,RI, USA
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**Job Title: Forklift Operator**
**Job Description**
As a Forklift Operator, you will perform a variety of duties including picking lumber, masonry, and building materials and staging them for customers and deliveries. Essential functions of the role include servicing customers in a polite, courteous, friendly, and professional manner, safely and accurately loading and unloading delivery and tractor-trailer trucks, and maintaining the integrity of products through proper handling and storage. You will be responsible for general housekeeping to ensure our warehouse/yard standards are met in a safe and professional manner, including sweeping, consolidation of product, facility maintenance, organizing product, and other tasks as necessary. Additionally, you will replace stock as received/sold, ensure stock is stacked correctly and neatly to preserve the quality of the product, keep yard and building areas clean, free of debris, and organized, and report and process damaged, and unsaleable stock. You will also request and place any needed signage within the assigned area per company guidelines. Further responsibilities include accurately pulling all necessary products for needed transfers, work orders, or deliveries, communicating any discrepancies immediately with the person on Duty, staging or palletizing products in a safe and secure manner, and processing all paperwork in a timely fashion. Safety protocols are paramount, and you will be expected to unload and load vehicles safely and securely, complete Forklift Pre-Trip Inspections and accompanying documentation, maintain OSHA Forklift Operator certification, and follow all safety regulations required by OSHA and the company. You will also maintain required certifications and up-to-date equipment training, and follow all applicable OSHA and ALC safety regulations for the position.
**Hard Skills**
+ Forklift operation
+ Loading and unloading trucks
+ Product handling and storage
+ General housekeeping
+ Stock management
+ Paperwork processing
+ Safety protocol compliance
**Soft Skills**
+ Customer service
+ Attention to detail
+ Communication
+ Organization
+ Professionalism
**Job Type**
This is a contract position with a duration of 540 Hour(s).
**Work Site**
This is a fully on-site position in West Kingston, Rhode Island.
**Work Environment**
At the Coventry site, you will be working inside, and the dock door will be open during summers. At the West Kingstown site, you will need to work in the elements and will be provided with appropriate clothing.
**About Aerotek:**
We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.
Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.