Phillip McElroy
Shreve
Summary
Dedicated warehouse professional with extensive experience in forklift operation and shipping and receiving. Demonstrated success in managing inventory and optimizing warehouse layout to enhance operational efficiency and support timely shipments.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Warehouse Forklift Operator
Central Farm and Garden
Wooster, OH
03.2025 - 02.2026
- Operated forklift to transport materials efficiently across warehouse.
- Loaded and unloaded shipments, ensuring accurate inventory management.
- Reviewed daily production schedules to inform effective prioritization and delegation of tasks.
- Weighed materials or products to record weight or other production data on tags or labels.
- Kept accurate records of materials moved within warehouse to quickly locate inventory and keep facility operating smoothly.
- Manually counted Number of picked and packaged orders for any loss.
- Assisted in organizing warehouse layout for optimal space utilization.
- Built pallets and loads for partial and mixed pallets, wrapped finished pallets and staged pallets and loads into truck when ready for shipment.
- Wrapped pallets in plastic wrap and attached merchandise tags to prepare for shipping.
- Worked with racking systems and loaded or unloaded pallets, pulling and placing pallets on or off of vertical product racking systems and trucks, maximizing storage by stacking products vertically.
- Cubed loads each day to find pallet count and number of truck loads leaving.
- Worked in receiving to unload and load outside carriers in a timely manner to avoid fines.
- Went through completed load sheets and used inventory system to check products that were marked out.
Production Worker
Central Farm and Garden
Wooster, OH
11.2020 - 01.2025
- Worked at bird seed ingredient mixer to insure correct product was loaded to mix.
- Used an electric forklift to move completed product pallets from designated locations to wrapper.
- Calibrated stacking robot line to stack correct weights, size, and stacking pattern
- Worked in small packaging handling special order items.
- Worked in grass production insuring the correct product was cut into mixer to make grass blends
- Unloaded bulk ingredient trucks into silos.
- Kept the workplace clean at the end of each shift.
Education
High School Diploma -
Orrville High School
Orrville, OH06-2021
Skills
- Forklift operation
- Truck loading and unloading
- Warehouse organization
- Shipping and receiving
- Loading and unloading
- Pallet jack operation
- Loading dock procedures
- Order picking
- Shipment receiving
- Heavy lifting
- Inventory management
- Inventory counts
- Stock rotation
Timeline
Warehouse Forklift Operator
Central Farm and Garden
03.2025 - 02.2026
Production Worker
Central Farm and Garden
11.2020 - 01.2025
High School Diploma -
Orrville High School