FLT and Waste Operative

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday entitlement

Pension contributions

Discounts to 850+ retailers

Cycle to work scheme

Save as you earn scheme

Virtual GP service

Free drinks

Job summary

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services is seeking a Forklift Truck Driver for a permanent role in a warehouse environment. You will operate a counterbalance forklift within a cleaning and waste team, loading/unloading pallets and sorting pallets while ensuring equipment is clean and safe.

PPE must be worn and health and safety rules followed. The role requires a Counter Balance license and basic English, with shift patterns of day hours and a 12-hour day, 4 on/4 off, on-site in Peterborough.

Qualifications

• Counter Balance forklift license required.
• 3 months forklift operative experience preferred.
• Communicative English essential; may require language assessment.
• Good organisational skills and time management are essential.

Responsibilities

• Operate Forklift Truck in warehouse environment.
• Load/unload pallet trailers and handle cardboard/plastic bales.
• Sort, move and stack pallets; keep equipment clean and maintained.
• Wear PPE and comply with health and safety legislation; complete required documentation.

Skills

Counter Balance license

Forklift experience

English proficiency

Time management

Job description

Better places, thriving communities.

Salary: £14.18 / hour

Hours: 12 hours/ day

Shift Pattern: Day Shift - 7 am to 7 pm, 4 on / 4 off

Contract: Permanent

In your new role as an FLT Driver, you'll be working within a warehouse environment as part of our cleaning and waste team and undertake the operation of Forklift Truck driving within a health and safety conscious environment. Your duties will include loading and unloading pallet trailers, loading cardboard and plastic bales onto trailers, and sorting, moving and stackings pallets. Ensure all equipment is kept clean, well maintained and is in safe working order, perform miscellaneous cleaning duties and provide support to the waste team, whilst wearing PPE and complying with health and safety legislation.

What You'll Get In Return

• Holiday entitlement
• Pension contributions
• Discounts to over 850 high street retailers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to Save as you earn scheme and share incentive plan
• A free virtual GP service
• Free hot and cold drinks

Plus, we love to recognise our colleagues for their hard work. We do this through our Mitie Stars programme and our Employee of the Month Scheme. We also involve colleagues throughout the year when we celebrate holidays and events.

Qualifications

In order to be successful in this role, you'll need a Counter Balance license and 3 months forklift operative experience is preferred. Communicative English is essential, and you may be required to take an English language assessment. You'll need to have good organisational skills, be detail conscious, work from your own initiative and have excellent time management skills. You must be able to complete appropriate documentation and fall into the required shift pattern as deemed suitable to meet contractual requirements.

You will be required to complete the Basic Disclosure (DBS Check) and undertake a drug and alcohol screening test.

Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.

Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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