Grapple Operator Jobs Near Me

Responsible for receiving, shipping, and stocking product. Drives gasoline, liquefied 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.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following:

• 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 or hooks tow trucks to trailer hitch, and transports load to designated area.
• Unloads and stacks material by raising and lowering lifting device.
• Inventories materials on work floor, and supply workers with materials as needed.
• Weighs materials or products and records weight on tags, labels, or production schedules.
• Loads or unloads materials onto or off of pallets, trailers, or lifting device.
• Shrink wraps pallets and products on pallets.
• Must be able to complete transactions and research errors in inventory in order to keep product current and from expiring.
• Will perform other duties such as receiving, shipping, WIP moving or RTS as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of this position.

Supervisory responsibilities:

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications:

Education and experience: High School Diploma or general education degree (GED); or 2 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Certificates, licenses and registrations:

Must be forklift certified.

Required knowledge, skills, abilities:

• Must be able to follow safety guidelines and rules.

• Must have strong attention to detail.

• Must be able to multi-task.

• Must be able to work with Warehouse ERP systems.

Benefits:

SK Food Group provides competitive salaries and a wide variety of benefits including programs that provide for your health and welfare, help you prepare for retirement and truly enable you to balance your work and family life.

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Associate Bonus Programs
• Family & Friends Referral Bonuses
• DailyPay– Access Earned Pay Sooner
• 401k Retirement Plan with company match
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Health & Dependent Care Flex Spending Accounts
• Dependent scholarship opportunities
• Educational Tuition Assistance

About Us:

Established in 1943, the SK Food Group is a leader in the food manufacturing and wholesale food sales industry. We produce a complete line of products for many different market segments including retail, convenience stores, vending and the transportation industry. In addition, we pride ourselves on the sub-contract manufacturing and private labeling capabilities our company offers to customers throughout the United States. Please visit http://www.skfoodgroup.com for more information.