Dockworker (Hostler) - FAC Shift
XPO Logistics
- Shreveport, LA
- $20.96 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Pay starts at $20.96/hour
- FAC Shift, 9:00pm - 6:00am
- Additional $1.80/hour shift premium for nights
- Full health insurance on day one
- Life and disability insurance
- Earn up to 13 days PTO over the course of your first year
- 10 paid company holidays
- 401(k) option with company match
- Education assistance
- Move trailers throughout the property
- Use appropriate motorized and manual equipment, including pallet jack, forklift and by hand, as needed
- Efficiently load freight a minimum of 1 day per week
- Operate a hostler in all types of weather; safely walk and stand for extended periods of time
- Safely operate heavy equipment, including a converter dolly
- Work in a safe, efficient manner while adhering to company safety policies
- Use mobile handheld devices to scan and track shipments
- To be at least 18 years of age
- A valid driver's license
- Ability to do basic math calculations, with and without a calculator
- To pass a company-paid, post-offer, pre-hire (physical essential functions) test
- Availability to work a variety of shifts, including days, evenings, nights and weekends, due to varying freight volumes
- Tractor/trailer experience (3 axle tractor, 53' trailer)
- Dock/warehouse experience in the transportation industry
- Forklift experience in a freight/less-than-truckload environment
- Experience loading and unloading trailers
- Basic written and verbal communication skills
- Desire to succeed with a strong attention to detail
- Lift objects of various shapes, sizes and weights up to 50 lbs. frequently and greater than 70 lbs. occasionally
- Reach (including above your head), bend, climb, push, pull, twist, squat and kneel
- Walk and stand for extended periods of time on a loading dock that is not climate-controlled and may be slippery
- Efficiently sort, handle, load and unload palletized and non-palletized freight using appropriate motorized and manual equipment, including a pallet jack, forklift and by hand
- Safely operate heavy equipment, including moving, positioning and connecting/disconnecting a converter dolly with an average weight/pull force of approximately 128 lbs.