Forklift Operator​/Day Shift

Graham Packaging is seeking a Forklift Operator for the Day Shift in Bowling Green, KY, offering $20.90/hour with benefits starting on day one. Responsibilities include operating lift trucks, transporting materials, assisting production lines, and ensuring safety and quality standards. The position requires working a 2/2/3 schedule from 6:42am to 7:12pm, including every other weekend. The company emphasizes a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Position: Forklift Operator (Day Shift) - $20.90/hour

Company Statement

Graham Packaging is a people, planet, and values-based company and a leader in sustainable packaging manufacturing. From the kitchen to the laundry room, Graham Packaging is part of your everyday life. For employees at Graham, our Blue Culture is part of their everyday lives, too. In other words, Blue is how we do things here. At Graham, we are united by a clear vision.

We know our part and help those around us know theirs, encouraging one another to continuously improve. We create a safe, challenging environment to innovate by supporting creative ideas and new ways of thinking. We take the initiative to cultivate our individual growth and help others do the same, while keeping ourselves and one another accountable. And we actively promote cooperation, collaboration, integrity and respect across regions and teams to foster an engaged, diverse and connected workforce.

We value our employees, and a Blue Culture allows for the most rewarding employee experience as part of the Graham family. Blue is how we feel about what we do—together—to create a better tomorrow. Working at Graham means you lead constructively with clear goals, use diverse thinking to drive excellence, accountability, innovation, as well as demonstrating collaboration, embracing learning, and taking action for continuous improvement and growth.
Overview

Graham Packaging Company is looking for a Forklift Operator based in Bowling Green, KY. This is a Day Shift position, working from 6:42am-7:12pm on a 2/2/3 schedule (working every other weekend).
• Weekly pay starting at $20.90 per hour.
• Benefits Start on Day One:
Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401K.

Forklift Operators perform a combination of product handling and lift truck operating duties to stack, transport, and store work-in-process and finished goods. Supplies production lines with efficient flow of materials – knockdowns and dividers - and moves finished goods to warehouse. Complete line driver reports accurately and legibly showing locations and quantities of raw materials used as well as quantities and locations where finished goods were stored.

Assist production line employees by relieving them during breaks and lunchtime periods. The primary duties of a Forklift Operator include:
• Follow all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
• Perform a safety lift truck inspection and battery check and report any equipment malfunctioning or damage to the Warehouse Manager or Shift Supervisor. Change lift truck batteries and add water when necessary; keep record of time batteries are changed. Fill out lift truck status report.
• Participate in continuous quality improvement projects and other related activities as assigned.
• Review daily production schedule with Shift Supervisor, bring materials to the production lines when needed to execute schedule and notify supervisor of any materials running low. Remove finished goods from production lines, back to assigned warehouse locations.
• Provide accurate information of unloaded materials as well as materials used or produced to warehouse personnel.
• Remove, store, and unitize production scrap bales and inform warehouse personnel when there is enough for a full load. Remove excess corrugated from mezzanine and empty baler as required. Take full bales of cardboard scrap from baler to assigned location in the warehouse.
• Maintain accurate records of materials being used and produced, and report them in appropriate paperwork, back to warehouse personnel.
• Remove finished goods and other materials in hold to assigned location. Store finished goods stacked neatly and in proper height. Verify that all finished goods removed from the production area must have a product code tag.
• Participate in physical inventory taking.
• Keep each production line supplied with the proper knock down cases, dividers, pallets and when each pallet is full take that pallet to the warehouse for loading on the trailer; and take unused cases and dividers back to the warehouse to the proper location.
• On limited production, may assist in stock-handler duties or load trailers as needed.
• Bring up hot glue cases to the…