Full-Time Warehouse Associate - Forklift Experience a Plus (Brooklyn)

Job Description

Job Description

Full-Time Warehouse Associate - Forklift Experience a Plus (Brooklyn)

Location : Brooklyn, NY
Pay : $17.00 - $18.00/hr
Start : Immediate start available
Environment : Cold / refrigerated warehouse
Schedule : Monday–Friday, AM shift

About the role:
We are seeking a dependable and experienced Warehouse Associate (Forklift Experience Plus) to support food distribution operations at a mission-driven nonprofit organization.

The ideal candidate has recent, hands-on warehouse and forklift experience, a strong attendance record, and the flexibility to help in different areas of the warehouse. We’re looking for someone who listens carefully, asks questions when needed, takes initiative, and works well both independently and as part of a team.

This is a full-time opportunity for someone who takes pride in reliable work and wants to contribute to an organization serving the community.

Key responsibilities:

• Safely operate a forklift to load, unload, and transport inventory
• Move products between storage areas, workstations, loading docks, and trucks
• Pick, pack, label, shrink-wrap, and prepare orders for shipment
• Operate electric pallet jacks, carts, and other warehouse equipment
• Manage multiple orders and priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Inspect equipment and report maintenance or repair needs
• Identify and report damaged products, shortages, and quality concerns
• Maintain accurate inventory records and activity logs
• Keep work areas clean, organized, and safe, including removing trash
• Assist in different areas of the warehouse based on daily operational needs
• Take initiative and identify productive tasks after assigned work is completed
• Work efficiently to meet daily production goals (including longer days when required)

Required qualifications:

• At least one year of recent, hands-on warehouse experience
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and perform physical work throughout the shift
• Experience using a pump jack and electric pallet jack
• Comfortable working in a cold environment
• Experience with picking, packing, shipping, receiving, inventory, or material handling
• Reliable, high-energy, team-oriented, and able to work a full shift
• Strong attendance, punctuality, and time-management skills
• Ability to manage multiple orders and changing priorities
• Willingness to assist in different areas of the warehouse as needed
• Interest in stable, long-term employment and growing within the organization
  Preferred / a plus
• Forklift certification or recent forklift operating experience
• Nonprofit, food-bank, donation, or community-service experience
• Food-distribution or cold-storage warehouse experience