Counterbalance Forklift Driver (Nights)

Menzies Distribution Solutions; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading distribution company is hiring a Counterbalance Forklift Driver/Warehouse Operative in Wakefield. The successful applicant will handle picking, packing, and dispatching warehouse goods while ensuring safety and efficiency. Licenses for Counterbalance and Reach Truck are preferred. This full-time role offers a salary of £30,261.60 annually with a shift pattern of 4 on/4 off nights.

Benefits

Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Program

Parking Onsite

Qualifications

• Licenses and experience in Counterbalance, Reach Truck & Pivot Steer (Flexi/bendi/aislemaster) are preferred.
• Experience operating within a warehouse environment.
• Basic numeracy and literacy skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate and prompt picking, packing and dispatch of depot warehouse goods.
• Check quantities and record receipt of customer stock deliveries.
• Pick and pack customer orders to meet turn-round targets.
• Load trailers with customer goods in a timely manner.
• Maintain warehouse cleanliness and perform hygiene checks.

Skills

Counterbalance Forklift License

Reach Truck License

Pivot Steer License

Good Communication Skills

Team Working Skills

Job description

Counterbalance Forklift Driver (Nights)

Menzies Distribution Solutions are currently recruiting for a Counterbalance Forklift Driver/Warehouse Operative to join our team in Wakefield. The purpose of this role is to provide accurate and prompt picking, packing and dispatch of the depot warehouse goods & requires you to complete various warehouse tasks, as safely, accurately and as efficiently as possible upholding and the highest standards of health and safety at all times. Also includes other duties to help maintain the efficient and successful working of the warehouse.

*** We are looking for Counterbalance, Reach Truck & Pivot steer (Flexi/bendi/aislemaster) Licences and experience in using them preferable ***

The Details:

• Salary: £30,261.60 annual, £13.85 per hour
• Shift Pattern: 4 On/ 4 Off
• Shift Pattern:18:30-06:30
• 42 Hours Per Week
• Full-time, permanent
• Wakefield,WF2 0XE
• Forklift Experience is Mandatory
• Monthly Pay
• Parking Onsite

Warehouse Operative duties:

• Co-operate fully with the sites safety requirements
• Receive deliveries of customer stock from trailers into warehouse. Check quantities, record receipt and pass on paperwork
• Pick and pack customer orders to achieve agreed turn-round targets, dispatching orders with appropriate paperwork. Both full pallet and manual case/break picked from the racking and ground locations
• Load trailers with customer goods in timely manner
• Put away of customer goods from the warehouse floor into the racking
• Manual handling of products
• Signing for and accepting responsibility for tasks that have been completed
• Housekeeping, both physical completion and hygiene checks
• Stock integrity and quality checks
• Keep warehouse and outside forecourts clean and tidy including shelf dusting, keeping gangways clear and litter removal

About you:

• Good Communication & team working skills
• Experience operating within a warehouse environment
• Basic numeracy and literacy skills
• A professional manner

BENEFITS

• Pension Scheme
• Employee Assistance Program

INCLUSION

Menzies Distribution Solutions is committed to creating a fair and inclusive environment where employees feel safe, proud and valued. We encourage ways of working that treat everyone fairly and with respect, and we look to create opportunities to improve the diversity of our workforce across all areas of the business.

We seek to attract and recruit people from the widest talent pool, who reflect the society in which we work. And we aim to encourage an inclusive culture where people can feel empowered to be the very best they can be, and to reach their full potential creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.