Forklift Driver/ Lift Truck Operator
Temple, Texas
Type: Temporary
Job ID: 8641
Manufacturing/Production
Salary: $17$0 Per Hour
Posted Date: 11/10/2025
Job Description
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Forklift Driver/ Lift Truck Operator
Main responsibilities include counting inventory, loading customer shipments, unloading inbound transfers, pick up/store product pallets, and production receipts.
Must have experience operating forklifts inside truck trailers.
Requirements:
- Must have 1-2 years of warehouse experience operating lift trucks (ie., Sit-down double fork and sit-down clamp)
- Must satisfactorily pass forklift driving training program or demonstrate safe handling of forklift in an on-site test.
- Must have experience operating forklifts inside truck trailers
- Previous completion of a Forklift training program or current forklift certification is preferred.
Skills/Abilities
- Must successfully obtain and maintain a valid Forklift and Safety Certifications during employment.
- Proficiency in operating technical machinery and scanners, Warehouse Management System (WMS) for task completion.
- Good organizational skills
- Attention to detail
- Must be self-directed and have the ability to work with little supervision.
- Ability to work within a team and build good relationships.
- Ability to handle equipment and vehicles safely and sensibly.
Essential Job Duties
- Operate all warehouse equipment required to transfer finished goods and other products to the appropriate areas. All warehouse equipment includes, but is not limited to, forklift, and clamp truck.
- Load and unload trucks efficiently in accordance with department standards (this includes driving into the trailers to load/unload)
- Moving and transferring materials and finished goods in a high volume production environment.
- Support WMS functions as related to inventory and load management (IE. Pick list, PGI).
- Check accuracy of finished product count, product ID, order destination and carrier ID before loading any vehicle and accurately complete all required paperwork
- Load in/outbound finished goods using PIC sheet or direct load function on forklift.
- All transferring of product and material must be performed with a high degree of accuracy and accountability and in accordance with the established standard processes and procedures.
- Must adhere to all safety standards, Leader Standard Work (LSW) and company policies.
- Maintain work area in an organized, safe and clean manner
- Know locations of and how to operate emergency stop buttons and fire extinguishers.
- Complete forklift checklist which includes daily inspection of forklifts.
- Show ability to change the forklift propane tank as needed.
- The job responsibilities in this position description are not all inclusive; other duties may be assigned as needed.
$17.00/hr: 1st shift: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
$17.75/hr: 2nd shift: 4:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.
$17.35/hr: 3rd shift: 12:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
And
$18.00-18.25/hr for: Weekend Only Shift: (Saturday & Sunday: 12-hour shifts and Friday & Monday: 8-hour shifts)
To Apply:
Elite Staffing at Pactiv
3002 Pegasus Dr
Temple, Texas, 76501
254.770.4283
Job Site: Temple, Texas, 76501
Please send resumes to yberrios@elitestaffinginc.com
All employees of Elite Staffing must be 18 years or older and authorized to work in the United States.
Elite Staffing, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our policy of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train and promote persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, handicap or any other protected status.
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