Forklift Operator - 12-Hour Blue Days (6:00am - 6:30pm)

About LiDestri Food and Drink

LiDestri Food and Drink has grown from our roots as a pasta sauce and salsa manufacturer to become an R&D engine, formulating and producing innovative food products for our national and retailer brand partners. A family-run company based in Rochester, NY, LiDestri employs over 1,000 people across three U.S. locations. We have decades-long partnerships with some of the most respected consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies and the most highly inventive retailer brands.

Excellent Pay and Benefits:

• Great career-pathing
• Professional development, including unlimited online training courses
• Health insurance with premium contributions
• Dental, vision, HSA
• 100% company paid life insurance and long-term disability
• 401k – with employer match
• Paid time off to include- vacation, sick pay, wellness time off, and 10 holidays
• Company bonuses
• And many more….

POSITION SUMMARY:

• Ensure proper receipt, shipment, storage and delivery of finished or raw product by performing the following duties.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Utilize RF scanner guns;
• Move, locate, relocate, stack and count inventory;
• Follow GMP protocols;
• Palletizer
  1. Remove wrapped pallets from palletizer staging area and deliver to correct bay;
• Can Building
  1. Relocate pallets throughout the can building;
• Receiving
  1. Unload raw materials from delivery truck;
  2. Properly receive and deliver to proper bay;
  3. Assist with ensuring proper materials are delivered to kitchen or depal area;
• Depalletizer
  1. Unload glass from delivery truck;
  2. Accurately and safely deliver pallets of empty containers to depal area;
• Kitchen
  1. Accurately and safely deliver correct raw materials to appropriate kitchen;
• Rec/Railcars
  1. Load and unload rail cars;
  2. Accurately receive any raw product in;
• Shipping
  1. Remove pallets of finished product from palletizer and delivery to appropriate bay for holding;
  2. Stage and prep outgoing orders;
  3. Load outgoing trucks and ensure product is not damaged prior to or during loading;
• Report food safety & quality problems to personnel with authority to initiate action.

REQUIRED EDUCATION, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• High School Diploma or GED;
• Ability to wear personal protective equipment (bump cap, hair net, ear plugs, beard net (if applicable); Kevlar gloves, safety glasses and leather skid resistant work shoes/boots);
• Ability to apply computer and communication skills and math functions;
• Ability to use hand tools (RF scanner guns);
• Previous experience operating forklift in a fast paced environment;

WORKING CONDITIONS:

Ability to work in a manufacturing environment with exposure to:

• Long periods of standing/moving, working around moving mechanical parts/conveyors
• Loud environment, hot/cold, wet/dry conditions
• Lifting/carrying <50 pounds
• Frequent reaching/pulling/climbing stairs/stooping/kneeling/bending

DISCLAIMER: The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed and is not an inclusive summary of job duties and responsibilities. The omission of specific statements of duties or responsibilities does not exclude them from the position. This job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and the employee and is subject to change by the Company as the needs of the Company and requirements of the job change.