Sysco
Sysco is hiring: Forklift Operator, Let Down in Houston
Sysco, Houston, TX, United States, 77246
Overview
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General Summary: This is an Operations position responsible for stocking received merchandise in the appropriate location, operating and maintaining equipment associated with warehouse activity and performing other related duties as required.
Responsibilities
- Operates electric forklift, which requires moving levers and pressing pedals to drive truck and control movement of lifting apparatus in the cooler, freezer, and dry spaces.
- Unloads/loads pallets of products using pallet jacks and forklifts.
- Stores and removes pallets of products from rack locations.
- Puts product in overflow locations.
- Hand stacks product onto/off of pallets and into packing locations as required.
- Maintains a clean work environment by performing duties of sweeping, ice removal, scrubbing with rags and brushes, and removing trash as required.
- Transfers any leftover items to the Home slot at the end of the shift.
- Cleans up aisles and pick up leftover pallets at the end of the shift.
- Performs duties of order selector as needed.
Qualifications
- Age 18+
- High school diploma/GED or 6 months related warehouse experience or training
- 6 months of warehouse distribution experience
- Ability to work nights
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous stand-up forklift experience
Essential Skills and Knowledge
- Ability to read a limited number of two and three syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers.
- Ability to print and speak simple sentences.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
- Computer skills.
Competencies
- Adaptability
- Attendance/Punctuality
- Dependability
- Ethics
- Initiative
- Interpersonal Skills
- Motivation
- Organizational Support
- Planning/Organizing
- Professionalism
- Quality
- Quantity
- Safety and Security
- Teamwork
Physical Demands
- The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50-80 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
- Must be able to handle up to 80 lbs.
Work Environment
- Regularly exposed to wet, hot, extreme cold and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts. Exposed to high, precarious places. Occasional exposure to fumes or airborne particles. Noise level is usually loud.
EEO/AA Employer
Job Details
- Seniority level: Entry level
- Employment type: Full-time
- Job function: Management and Manufacturing
- Industries: Food and Beverage Services