Forklift Operator - 1st Shift

At Lakeside Foods and our family of companies, we're committed to providing wholesome foods to enrich people’s lives through food. We are a culture that pursues our vision of growth and innovation with passion, confidence, and commitment. We are strongest together – valuing collaborative contribution, transparency and new ideas to enable change and growth. We are committed to an inclusive and respectful environment that promotes a healthy work-life balance, and there’s a seat at the table for you.

• Fill out forklift checklist with needed information of condition of forklift
• Examine schedule for the shiftt of product to be run.
• Make sure correct lot is staged and ready to run.
• Operate computerized barcoding system.
• Place product on depal so depal operator can fill the line prior to start up.
• Check that line has pallets and bboxes/trays to start running.
• Complete a pallet ticket for each pallet of finiished product.
• Keep Lakeside pallets seperate from truck pallets.
• Return any unused pallets to warehouse.
• Make dumpster available and empty when necessary.
• Remove papers from depal when necessary.
• If your line is down because of defective product, help sort out product.
• If line is down for mechanical reasons and downtime is expected to be minimal, assist in clean-up of area.
• If line downtime is expected to be subbstantial, notify supervisor so appropriate work can be found for the entire crew.

Lakeside Foods and our family of companies welcomes people of all backgrounds and the varied ideas they bring to the workplace. Being an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer is part of our heritage and culture. We recruit, hire and promote employees based on qualifications and merit, without regard to race, religion, age, gender, disability, marital or veteran status. Lakeside Foods participates in E-Verify.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities