Company description: For over 70 years, our Ontario client has been a trusted partner to our customers, suppliers and employees and now is one of North America’s leading full-service distributors and remanufacturers of softwood & hardwood lumber and specialty panel products.
Job title: Forklift Operator
Work location: Mississauga, Ontario
# positions open: 1
Wage: $20.00
Job duties:
Health and Safety:
- Report all incidents, accidents, and/or hazards
- Participate and/or cooperate with the Joint Health and Safety Committee to improve safety
- Wear personal protective equipment as required
- Daily safety and maintenance checks of forklift
- Ensure product is safely placed on three (3) crossbars and strapped with a minimum of two (2) bands
- Ensure product is safely placed on proper tie bottoms
- Inspect product daily to ensure it is stored in a safe manner at all times
- Perform housekeeping activities as required
- Comply with the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) particularly the “Duties of Workers” as stated in Section 28
Employee Relations:
- Communicate with administrative, and supervisory staff as required and in a timely manner
- Perform compulsory overtime as necessary and in accordance with legislative requirements
- Comply with company rules, policies and procedures.
Order Processing and Storage:
- Review work orders to ensure proper signatures are present.
- Load, unload and move product according to instructions indicated on work orders.
- Pull stock and stage loads for shipping.
- Perform product back-up tallies on species, grade, purchase order number and mill numbers.
- Rotate stock as required and inform supervisor of any “stale” product.
- Verify orders for outbound shipments, tallies and remove mill tags.
- Receive and tally inbound product verifying purchase orders, driver’s paperwork and amount of product.
- Offload inbound product, attach mill identification tags and complete required paperwork.
- Ensure all inbound product is secured to proper tie bottoms, safely strapped and stored.
- Ensure part bundles are shipped as applicable.
Material Handling Equipment
- Perform daily forklift inspection and record the results of the inspection.
- Report safety requirements and/or damage to equipment to the supervisor in a timely manner.
- Ensure product is stored, strapped and moved in a safe manner and to prevent product damage
Quality Control:
- Report any deficiencies in systems, facilities, machinery, equipment and/or tools immediately to your supervisor
- Record and/or report product damage/nonconformities to your supervisor as required.
- Comply with quality control policies and procedures.
- Participate and contribute to effective production efficiency.
Skills, experience and education required:
- Knowledge of all grades of product lines.
- Strong verbal and written skills
- Organized and able to manage multiple tasks and deadlines in a fast paced environment.
- Strong initiative and follow-up skills.
- Strong team player with ability to self manage and prioritize.
- Good math skills.
- Knowledge of unit of measure as it pertains to lumber and panels.
Schedule
Shifts: Monday to Friday
