Job Details
** Forklift Operator**
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New **We Are Committed to Growth:** 100% tuition paid for benefits eligible employees and their family, and established career progression. **We Are Investing in You:** Amazing Medical, Dental & Vision, 401K with match, discounted stock options, dependent day care, and more! Waste Management (WM), a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.
**I. Job Summary**
Operates one or two pieces of equipment including but not limited to baler, front-end loader, bobcat, candensifier or forklift to transport or bind paper or other loose materials to facilitate handling.
**II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities**
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned. * Sorts and grades material.
* Fills and operates candensifier.
* Records materials or items received or distributed and mark materials with identifying information.
* Maintains inventory records.
* Compiles worksheets or tickets from customer specifications.
* Insures material is being fed properly onto conveyor.
* Coordinates flow of material.
* Starts baler up on time, read monitor, which displays functions of baler, and reacts quickly to machine prompts and alarms, and ensures proper operation.
* Monitors and documents downtime.
* Insures safety around working areas.
* Checks quality of material before it is baled or shipped.
* Coordinates with MRF Manager to see what material needs to be baled or shipped.
* Performs routine maintenance and daily inspection on equipment such as lubricating, fueling, and cleaning.
* Keeps supply of wire on hand for baler.
* Operates loader, forklift, bobcat, or other equipment to move material to designated area.
* Keeps surrounding work areas clean.
* Unloads, tags, and stacks material in proper rows by raising and lowering lifting device.
* Loads or unloads materials into or out of trailers and railcars.
* Moves material from baler.
* Dumps containers, bins, and gaylords of materials.
* Reads loading, unloading sheets and bills of ladings.
* Completes necessary load and unload tally sheets.
* Inspects and grades wastepaper that is received at plant.
* Ensures vehicle condition reports are filled out properly as required by corporate guidelines.
* Complies with all safety policies and procedures.
* Performs other duties as assigned.
* Education: None required.
* Experience: Six (6) months of previous work experience.