Forklift Operator

Allweather Wood Company, LLC (AWW) is looking for an Experienced Forklift Operators to join our Ukiah, CA Fenceline team. The hourly rate for this position is $25.65!

• We have an immediate opening!
• We are committed to training, growing, and investing in our staff.
• The company offers secure employment, family-level wages, company paid medical, dental, and vision benefits plus much more.

The Mendocino Companies (Mendocino Forest Products Company, Mendocino Redwood Company, Humboldt Redwood Company, Humboldt Sawmill Company, and Allweather Wood) own nearly 450,000 acres of Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC® C031337) certificated redwood and Douglas-fir timberland, constitute the largest waterborne wood treater in the Western USA, and is the largest producer of redwood lumber in the world. Collectively providing 950 employees and their families with excellent wages and benefits in communities throughout the Western USA. Additionally, the Mendocino Companies own and operate a 25-megaWatt biomass cogeneration power plant and wood pellet plant.

• Safely operates and drives Forklift while controlling the movement of lifting apparatus;
• Positions forks, lifting platform, or other lifting device under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, boxes, products, or materials and transports load to designated area or truck;
• Unloads and/or stacks material by raising and lowering lifting device;
• Inventories materials on work floor, tallies product and maintains stock rotation;
• Loads or unloads materials onto or off of pallets, skids, or lifting device;
• Performs preoperational checks on forklifts and reports any and all service and operational concerns;
• Repackages material/units as necessary;
• Maintains work area housekeeping;
• Participates in the yearly inventory audit.

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) and 6 months to 1-year related experience and/or training.
• Possess a current forklift operator’s license, or be able to provide proof of previous forklift operator’s license.
• Interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to operate a hand-held calculator.
• Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.
• Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• The employee regularly works in outside weather conditions. The employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts and is frequently exposed to wet or humid conditions and vibration.
• The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Frequently required to communicate and occasionally required to climb or balance
• The employee is also regularly required to sit when operating equipment.
• The employee will be subject to varying weather conditions including rain, snow, ice, wind, heat and cold
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, color, peripheral, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Regularly use arms and legs to get into and out of forklift multiple times a day.
• Use hands, wrists, and arms to operate forklift and use legs and feet to push forklift pedals.
• Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts, airborne particles and vibration.

Competencies