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title: "Forklift Operator job postings: what employers ask for (2026)"
description: "**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/postings/forklift-operator"
canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/postings/forklift-operator
last_updated: 2026-09-10
---

# Forklift Operator job postings: what employers ask for (2026)

> Live forklift operator job postings measured from JobsPipe's index: 0.0% remote, 40.5% disclose pay, seniority mix, top skills and the industries hiring. Shares only, reproducible through the API.

**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/postings/forklift-operator

This page reads every active posting whose normalized title is Forklift Operator across the ten boards JobsPipe collects and reports what those employers ask for: the seniority they target, whether the role is remote, whether pay is disclosed, the skills named in the text, and the industries, countries and company sizes behind the postings.

0.0% of these postings are marked remote, 40.5% state a salary or range, the most common seniority label is mid level at 21.6%. Postings with no seniority label are counted in the denominator, so the seniority shares do not sum to one.

## Headline shares

- **Remote:** 0.0%
- **Pay disclosed:** 40.5%

## Seniority stated in the posting

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Entry level | 3.0% |
| Mid level | 21.6% |
| Senior | 0.7% |

## Skills named in the text (top twelve)

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| forklift | 77.3% |
| attention-to-detail | 26.7% |
| communication | 20.5% |
| warehouse-operations | 19.4% |
| teamwork | 16.0% |
| inventory-management | 14.4% |
| compliance | 13.7% |
| supply-chain | 13.4% |
| adaptability | 12.2% |
| lean-manufacturing | 11.5% |
| osha | 10.3% |
| leadership | 9.1% |

## Job function

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Logistics & Supply Chain | 75.3% |
| Management and Manufacturing | 19.1% |
| Manufacturing | 2.9% |
| Other | 1.1% |

## Employer industry (ISIC division)

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Food manufacturing | 7.3% |
| Land transport | 5.0% |
| Warehousing and logistics | 4.4% |
| Wholesale trade | 4.1% |
| Employment and staffing | 3.4% |
| Chemicals | 2.6% |
| Machinery | 2.4% |
| Retail trade | 2.3% |

## Country

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 66.1% |
| Canada | 8.4% |
| Brazil | 8.4% |
| Australia | 2.8% |
| France | 2.4% |
| Italy | 1.6% |
| Mexico | 1.4% |
| Netherlands | 1.0% |

## Employer size, where known

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| 1-50 employees | 3.8% |
| 51-200 employees | 1.3% |
| 201-1000 employees | 5.8% |
| 1000+ employees | 24.8% |

## Employment type

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Full-time | 81.3% |
| Part-time | 1.3% |
| Internship | 1.1% |
| Temporary | 0.7% |

## Method

Denominator: active postings on the ten collected boards, grouped by canonical title (deduplicated by posting id). Counted on 2026-09-09. Postings are deduplicated by id, filtered to those not yet recorded as closed, and grouped on the field named in each heading. Only shares are published.

Reproduce the underlying rows:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $JOBSPIPE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"status":"active","limit":25,"job_title_or":["forklift operator"]}'
```

## FAQ

### What share of forklift operator job postings are remote?

0.0% of the active postings on this page carry a remote flag. The flag is read from the posting itself, so hybrid roles that never say remote are counted as on-site. Filter the API with remote set to true and the same scope to reproduce the figure.

### How many forklift operator postings disclose salary?

40.5% state a salary or a range in the posting text or structured fields. Disclosure varies more by board and by jurisdiction than by role, so compare the figure with the board-level shares on the sources pages before reading it as a market signal.

### Which skills appear most in forklift operator postings?

The most named skills are forklift (77.3%), attention-to-detail (26.7%), communication (20.5%), warehouse-operations (19.4%), teamwork (16.0%). Skills are extracted from the posting text against a curated lexicon, and a posting counts once per skill it names, so the shares overlap.

### Which industries hire the most forklift operator roles?

By ISIC division, the largest shares are Food manufacturing (7.3%), Land transport (5.0%), Warehousing and logistics (4.4%). Industry is resolved from the employer's classification where known, and postings without a classification are excluded from this cut.

### Which functions are employers in Forklift Operator hiring for?

The largest functions by share of postings are Logistics & Supply Chain (75.3%), Management and Manufacturing (19.1%), Manufacturing (2.9%), Other (1.1%). Function is assigned from the normalized title and the posting text.

### Where do these numbers come from?

From JobsPipe's live index of postings on the ten boards it collects, deduplicated by posting id and counted on 2026-09-09. Only shares are published; the underlying counts stay private. Every figure can be reproduced against the JobsPipe API with the filters shown on this page.

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