SHIPPING FORKLIFT OPERATOR MOTLEY DC

Trident Seafoods is the largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company in North America. Trident is a privately held, 100 percent USA-owned company with primary seafood processing operations and fleet support in twelve Alaska communities. Trident's global operations produce finished wild Alaska seafood products in 6 countries, and its sales teams serve customers in over 50 countries. Trident employs approximately 9,000 people worldwide each year and partners with over 5,400 independent fishermen and crewmembers. Species harvested and processed by Trident include virtually every commercial species of salmon, whitefish, and crab harvested in the North Pacific and Alaska. The global supply chain also includes cultured and wild species from a network of trusted sources worldwide.

Summary:

Drives gasoline, liquified gas, or electric powered industrial truck equipped with lifting devices such as forklift, boom, scoop, lift beam and swivel hook, fork grapple, clamps, elevating platform, or trailer hitch, to push, pull, lift, stack, tier, or move products, equipment, or materials.

Key Responsibilities:

• Moves levers and presses pedals to drive truck and control movement of lifting apparatus.

• Positions forks, lifting platform, or other lifting device under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, boxes, products, or materials and transports load todesignatedarea.

• Comparesidentifyinginformation and counts, weighs, ormeasuresitems of incoming and outgoing shipments to verify information against bills of lading, invoices, orders, or other records.

• Unpacks and examines incoming shipments, records shortages, rejects damaged items, and notifies Food Safety Quality Assurance ofdamagedand out of Spec. items.

• Unloads and stacks material by raising and lowering lifting device.

• Inventories materials onworkfloor, and supply workers with materials as needed.

• Scansall inbound and outbound pallets.

• Weighs materials or products and records weight on tagsor production schedulesand appliesbarcodelabels.

• Loads or unloads materials onto oroff ofpallets, skids, or lifting device.

• Lubricates truck, recharges/changes batteries, fills fuel tank, or replaces liquefied gas tank.

• Willbe assigned work insub-zero freezer area with proper company PPE provided.

• UsesSAPprogram to look up and verify shipment details, print labels and bills.

• Follows plant food safety and quality policies andprocedures

Additional Responsibilities:

• Acquiresknowledge of Trident's Environmental and Safety Policies by completing required training programs and performing designated work activitiesin accordance withtraining and procedures/work instructions.

• Notifies designated personnel of any environmental or safety incidents or risks not previously documented,in accordance withEnvironmental Awareness and/or safetytrainings.

• Performs other similar or related duties as assigned.

The role is non-exempt at $21.75 to $25.66 per hour.

Trident Seafoods offers a comprehensive and quality benefits package.Full time employees may be eligible for medical, dental and vision insurance plans, optional HRA/HSA, telemedicine, employee assistance and wellness programs, basic life and AD&D, and 401(k) with a company match, vacation, sick time, 10 paid holidays each year, and paid parental leave. For seasonal/part time employees working in Motley, MN, sick and safe time is accrued bi-weekly. Seasonal employees will be notified if they become eligible for benefits.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Three to sixmonthsexperience driving forklifts.

• Must be forklift certified, or able to become forklift certified. Must be able to qualify for lift truckcertification within 2 weeks.

Preferred Qualifications:

• One year certificate from college or technical school; or three to six months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.

The employee is frequently required to climb or balance.

The employee is occasionally required to sit; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.

The employee moves objects:

• regularly up to 10pounds

• frequently up to 25 pounds

• occasionally up to 50 pounds.

Work Authorizations:

• This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.