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Forklift Operator (1st Shift)

Crescent · 9817 Crescent Park Drive

Posted 7/2/2025 · last confirmed live 8/26/2026

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Position Summary   Crescent FLO’s are responsible to move the necessary materials throughout the warehouse in an effective, efficient, and very safe manner.    FLO’s are responsible to provide the necessary logistics services to our internal and external customers. The FLO’s processes will operate as outlined in the Crescent Way- 3 P’s:   Purpose   Process   People   While building on our culture of:   Doing it Right   Doing it Safe   Doing it Well   Essential Duties and Responsibilities   Safety   Read, understand, and follow the Doing it Safe Playbook.   Maintains a valid and current OSHA certification   Understands and complies with all safety requirements.   100% completion rate of pre-shift checklists that are accurate and according to procedure   Ensure OSHA certification is valid and current   Do not walk by any unsafe act or behavior.   Maintain a clean and organized warehouse.   Completes trailer inspection forms accurately and according to procedure.   Operate forklift in a safe manner in trailer, warehouse, production floor, and around other workers.   People    Motivated member of the Crescent team.   Ability to work and complete individually assigned tasks.   Work well in high paced environment.   Work closely with other FLO’s, Line Leads, Shipping and Receiving, and Supervisors to complete tasks on time, resolve issues, and continuously improve.   Ability to learn tasks, layout, and customer requirements quickly.   Ability to operate warehouse management system.   Productivity   Operate forklift efficiently to maximize productive time.   Communicate with Production to prioritize, pull, and stage inventory accurately and according to procedure to ensure efficient line operation.   Efficiently load and unload trailers to maintain turnaround times for each dock appointment.   Communicate with lead and supervisor to maintain good workflow for assigned tasks.   Consistently reach pallets per hour productivity standard.   Quality    Load trucks according to Crescent and Customer requirements with consideration for weight, balance, and load security.   Report all safety, quality, near misses, accidents, mistakes, and product damages accurately and according to procedures.   Ability to accurately verify and count items to be picked, staged, or loaded.    Ensure the integrity of lot code is maintained through every product movement process.   Maintain customer or inventory separation when required.   Customer Value    Handle customer owned product with care and protect their brand.   Work efficiently to provide on time delivery for each customer request.   Identify and be a part of continuous improvement efforts.   Financial    Provide ideas to continually improve productivity, GMP’s, and RSW.   Continually seek out means to remove sources of waste throughout the warehouse.   Look for ways to increase sustainability.   Cultural Competencies    Do It Right   Doing what is right for our customers, doing what is right for our company and doing what is right for our People.  Continually improving the quality of our product and services.  Monitoring and measuring every key ingredient which could negatively impact our quality.  Doing it Right ensures we will always be a Premier Service Provider .   Identify and communicate continuous improvement opportunities.   Accept and embrace change.   Do It Safe   Providing a safe environment and supporting our people to reach their highest potential.  A safe environment where all forms of risk are assessed and controlled.  A safe environment open to new ideas, where our people’s opinions and overall well-being count.  A diverse environment where everyone fits and can be successful.   Able to adhere to safety and GMP requirements.   Patient and aware of surroundings.   Do It Well   Optimizing all our resources to efficiently and effectively perform all tasks well.  Our overall productivity as a company is a reflection of the thousands of activities performed well each and every day by everyone.  At Crescent, our ability to Do it Well is a real source of pride valued by our customers.   Able communicator- clearly communicate with peers and supervisors.   Able to follow policy and procedures.   Resilient—able to deal with the unexpected.   Work Environment / Physical Demands   Fast paced environment, requiring FLO’s to follow specific guidelines and instructions to meet a set productivity goal.  The ability to establish repetitious routines, and be flexible to the flow of the business.    Ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, reach with hands and arm’s length, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, and crouch.   Ability to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds   Possess the necessary level of hand / eye coordination to safely operate industrial equipment.   Knowledge, Skills, & Capability   Basic Math and Reading Skills   The ability to read instructions and perform simple math.   Decision Making   Confident and able to both make decision and ask for support.   Communication Skills   The ability to communicate and balance talking with listening.   Motivation   Being self-motivated and motived by achieving set targets while continually seeking out opportunities to eliminate waste.  Ability to accept and embrace change.   Information Process   Determining how information fits together and how the information relates to the task at hand.   Problem Solving   The ability to break a problem down into steps and produce a logical timely solution.   Time Management   The ability to manage one’s time effectively, schedule and prioritize tasks in accordance with the demands of the day     Systems Usage   Pack Manager   SAP   Performance Metrics and Trends   Moves per hour   Incidents and accidents   Participate in Safety Observations   Pack-Manager Data Entry    Absenteeism   Ontime/ timely shipping.   Qualifications   Education & Experience:                                                                                                                        High school diploma and 2 years of related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience .     Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.   Ability to communicate effectively through oral and written communications.   Preferred Qualifications:   Regulatory GMP manufacturing experience   Lean manufacturing and continual process improvement experience   We will absolutely know the FLO is successful if they can:   Operate safe risk-free industrial equipment.   Achieve all Productivity and Quality targets.   Maintain an organized warehouse.   Maintain an accurate inventory count   Are able to successfully resolve issues from damage processing errors   Keep up with daily processing requirements of the DCA to prevent backlog   Establish and maintain effective communication to leadership/production team about errors and issues with damage processing.  

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