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Forklift Operator I (copy)
Job Location:
Job Location:
Convent, LA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
30 August 2026 (Yesterday)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
27 November 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Come join our team at Millennium Galvanizing!
Millennium Galvanizing is a proud member of the American Galvanizing Association. We operate with a lead free kettle using special High Grade Zinc that is supported by the most technologically advanced equipment in our industry.
Millennium Galvanizing can also perform painting metalizing and paint over bare blasted steel as well as paint over galvanized steel for sensitive areas of installation that require an aesthetically pleasing coating application.
Millennium Galvanizing is looking for a Forklift Operator to join the team in Convent. The Forklift Operator must be capable of operating a forklift in a galvanizing facility. This individual should have a working knowledge of material handling and unloading materials off of trucks. The Forklift operator is still in the training and learning stages. They are mostly unloading basic incoming loads and laying the steel out with comparable steel in the yard. This ensures the yard remains in a neat and efficient order. This role will be at the beginning stages of bringing steel into the shop to begin the acid treatment.
COMPETENCIES:
- Customer Focus
- Decision Quality
- Business Insight
- Drives Results
- Collaborates
- Communicates Effectively
- Courage
- Instills Trust
- Manages Ambiguity
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Learns and follows safety regulations.
- Takes actions to avoid potential hazards or obstructions such as other equipment other workers or falling objects.
- Monitors operations to ensure that health and safety standards are met.
- Adjusts handwheels and depresses pedals to control attachments.
- Starts engines moves throttles switches or levers or depresses pedals to operate machines.
- Coordinates machine actions with other activities positioning or moving loads in response to hand or audio signals from team members.
- Loads and moves equipment or other materials using fork trucks or related equipment.
- Checks fuel supplies at sites to ensure adequate availability.
- Performs operator maintenance on fork trucks.
- Inspects equipment before use.
- Locates material using project numbers and piecemarks.
REQUIREMENTS:
- High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.
- Ability to read and interpret typed reports and schedules required.
- Certifications or prior experience using moving machinery such as forklifts preferred.
- Working knowledge of material handling banding palletizing and loading on to truck preferred.
- Ability to perform basic operator maintenance on fork trucks required.
- Must complete on-site training and demonstrate safe operation of machinery.
Millennium Galvanizingis an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex disability age sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran status or genetic information.
Millennium Galvanizing is committed to providing access equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment its services programs and activities. To request information regarding reasonable accommodation contact your Human Resource Business Partner.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about discussed or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge (b) in furtherance of an investigation proceeding hearing or action including an investigation conducted by the employer or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Part of the CREST INDUSTRIES family of companies.
Required Experience:
IC
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