# Forklift Operator

Compensation Base Pay: $20-$22/ hour Available Schedules Schedule 1 Monday: 8:00AM-4:30PM Tuesday: 8:00AM-4:30PM Wednesday: 8:00AM-4:30PM Thursday: 8:00AM-4:30PM Friday: 8:00AM-4:30PM Saturday: OFF Sunday: OFF The Freight Handler (Forklift Operator) is responsible for the safe, accurate, and efficient loading, unloading, staging, scanning, and movement of freight. As certified forklift operators within the operation, they provide safe, accurate, and efficient loading, unloading, movement, and documentation of cargo/freight within a multimodal transportation terminal, intermodal yard, warehouse, or dock environment, directly contributing to productivity, workflow coordination, and freight integrity. As the most experienced team members without direct reports, they often assist with mentoring, guiding, and onboarding new Material Handlers and solving complex operational problems on the floor. Responsibilities Load and unload freight using sit-down/stand-up forklifts and reach trucks, along with other appropriate Material Handling Equipment (MHE), such as pallet jacks, carts, and dollies, and approved physical lifting techniques. Move, stage, sort, and position freight betwee

- **Id**: 3836398
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/forward-forklift-operator-18>
- **Role**: Field & Service
- **Role family**: Field & Service
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Atlanta, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T21:11:27Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T17:52:09Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4824
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Logistics, Road Transport

## Company

- **Id**: 1826503
- **Name**: Forward
- **Domain**: forwardair.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/forwardair-com>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.429
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 19
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 20
- **Max**: 22
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: hour
- **Usd annual**: 44000

## Technologies

- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: high_school
- **Optional**: yes

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T21:11:27Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 95
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.946
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 19
- **Reasons**: conf:1, wave, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 44000
- **Is top pay**: no

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