Forklift Maintenance Technician

Position Summary:  Execute all goals and objectives set by the Operations management team to ensure the facility is maintained in a neat and clean manner at all times. Support a safe working environment for all by carrying out light facility maintenance tasks and ensuring that all warehouse operations areas are free of debris, clutter, and other hazards. Support Company environmental initiatives by preparing warehouse operations waste products for recycling. Support operational and food safety initiatives by maintaining all areas of the facility clean and tidy. Diagnose, service, and repair all fleet equipment. Solve mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic issues on various production and facility equipment. 

General Duties:

• Perform routine, emergency, and preventative maintenance on MHE equipment
• Troubleshoot, diagnose, and repair Crown forklifts to Crown standards
• Maintain the MHE fleet, including batteries and chargers
• Maintain and organized and clean work environment
• Source quotes from vendors and project management
• Enter all work orders in Fleetstats system
• Maintain parts consignment
• General maintenance of interior and exterior grounds
• Maintain BRC compliance
• Follow all CDS safety policies

Supervisory Responsibilities:  This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Knowledges, Skills, and Abilities Required:

• Minimum Education: High School Diploma or equivalent; manufacturing, automotive, military or recent trade school graduate 

• License/Certification: Valid state driver's license and Valid Class B license 

• Forklift repair experience and certification, preferably Crown

• Ability to read and understand hydraulic and electrical schematics

• Experience in building maintenance, ie. dock levelers and doors

• Basic knowledge of cleaning products and their applications

• Ability to operate warehouse cleaning equipment, ie. floor scrubbers

• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and to work independenty

• Intermediate knowledge of computer software (Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office Suite) 
  
  

Language Skills:   Excellent written and oral communication skills with colleagues and vendors  including the ability to persuade, influence, negotiate, and make formal presentations in meetings and training environments required.

Mathematical Skills:  Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.   Ability to correctly read, interpret and process lengthy strings of individual digits in their correct order. Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages.

Reasoning Ability:  Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.  Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands:  The physical demands outlined below are representative of those that must be met by an employee in order to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:

• Sit and stand for extended periods of time.

• Stand, walk, and push heavy cleaning equipment for extended periods of time.

• Use hands to handle, touch, or manipulate items.

• Use arms, hands, and fingers to manipulate various tools.

• Speak and hear.

• Walk and reach with hands or arms.

• Use proximate and distant vision capabilities while operating equipment, ie. floor scrubbers or golf carts

• Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl to move certain materials that cannot be moved with power equipment.

• Lift up to75 pounds repeatedly.

• Have vision abilities to include proximate vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus. 

• Able to withstand extreme temperatures dependent on weather.

• Able to work around fumes, odors, chemicals and/or loud noises.

Why Join CDS?

We want our employees to have the opportunity to build their skills and grow with us. Eligible employees will receive:

• Competitive pay

• Paid time off

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance

• 401(k) with company match

• Employee referral program

• Performance incentives

• Training and professional-development opportunities

• Healthy work/life balance