Forklift Truck Driver

Job Description

This Forklift Driver role involves moving goods around our site and warehouses, ensuring all safety requirements are met. You will be responsible for loading and unloading deliveries, and stacking, transporting, and recording various items and pallets for storage and delivery.

The main duties and responsibilities of this role include:

• operating a forklift/reach truck to load, unload, move, and rearrange stock.
• basic operation of the palletiser system and conveyor.
• following all site safety rules to maintain a safe working environment, reporting any near misses, incidents, and injuries.
• carrying-out pre-use safety checks and ensuring accurate records are kept.
• ensuring 100% accuracy when loading and unloading by checking all products against paperwork.
• performing daily and weekly cleaning tasks.
• checking products are labelled correctly and put away in the correct locations and scanning pallets.
• achieving output targets set through effective teamworking.
• assisting with stocktakes.
• providing the correct pallet types required for production orders.

Job Requirements

Essential attributes:

• FLT Counterbalance and Reach licence
• Clamp truck experience
• Good communication, numeracy, and literacy skills
• Ability to work to deadlines

Duties involve regular repetitive light, medium, and heavy lifting

Desirable attributes:

• RPPT (Ride on Powered Pallet Truck) experience and/or license
• Experience of using handheld scanners and/or able to understand basic instructions displayed on handheld scanner screens 

If you have a Counterbalance and Reach FLT licence with experience as a Warehouse or Operative, Forklift Driver/Reach Truck Driver, or FLT Driver with Clamp attachment experience, we’d love to hear from you!