Counterbalance Forklift Driver

GXO; Belfast; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in Northern Ireland is seeking a full-time Counterbalance Forklift Driver. The role involves operating forklifts, ensuring product flow, and maintaining health and safety standards. The position offers a competitive hourly rate with various benefits, including holiday pay, workplace pension, and extensive training opportunities. The ideal candidate must possess prior counterbalance FLT experience, reliability, and effective teamwork skills, alongside a flexible approach to work.

Benefits

Hourly rate of £15.04

Holiday pay

Workplace pension

Healthcare and Dental cash plans

Retail Discounts

Extensive training opportunities

Friends and Family Apprenticeships

Qualifications

• Previous experience driving Counterbalance FLT is essential.
• Great attendance and punctuality.
• Effective team member also taking ownership of your own work.
• Flexible approach to work being reliable and honest.

Responsibilities

• Perform a range of duties related to the handling of stock items.
• Ensure a smooth flow of products throughout the warehouse.
• Be proactive and responsible for Health and Safety.
• Operate MHE in a safe manner.

Skills

Counterbalance FLT driving experience

Attendance and punctuality

Teamwork

Flexibility and reliability

Job description

Overview

Are you an experienced Counterbalance FLT Driver looking for a change? Would you like to work for one of the market leading companies with fantastic benefits? If so, we have a great opportunity for you!

Here at GXO Logistics, we are looking for full-time, permanent Counterbalance Forklift Driver to join our team in Lisburn for our customer, one of the largest American corporations, Coca-Cola.

This is a full time, permanent role. Working 12 hours shift, rotating between days and nights with minimum 3 days off between shifts. Every second month you will have 7 consecutive days off!

Pay, benefits and more

• An hourly rate of £15.04
• Holiday pay
• Workplace pension
• Healthcare and Dental cash plans
• Retail Discounts – supermarket, fashion, tech, days out, food and drink, home, cinema, travel, sports, music and games, books, health and beauty, leisure, Enterprise rentals
• Extensive training opportunities with funded accredited courses
• Friends and Family Apprenticeships – Not only can you learn and develop new skills; your friends and family can enrol on accredited courses too

What you will do on a typical day

• Perform a range of duties related to the handling of stock items
• Ensure a smooth flow of products throughout the warehouse, from receipt to despatch
• Be proactive and responsible for Health and Safety to help minimise risks, hazards, and incidents
• Operate MHE in a safe manner and to required company’s standards

What you need to succeed at GXO

• Previous experience driving Counterbalance FLT is essential
• Have a great attendance and punctuality
• Effective team member also taking ownership of your own work
• Flexible approach to work being reliable and honest

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. Review GXO's candidate privacy statement.