Stone Processing & Forklift Operative — Day Shift

Kilkenny Limestone Quarries Ltd; The Municipal District of Castlecomer; On-site; EUR 19,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension

Sick pay

Job summary

Kilkenny Limestone Quarries Ltd is seeking a hands-on quarry operative to cut stone, load and move materials, and perform routine maintenance on site. The role involves manual handling, operating lifting gear, and packing finished products for shipment in a busy production environment.

You'll work 39 hours per week at an hourly rate of €17.02, with time-and-a-half overtime after 39 hours and shift allowances on certain shifts. On-site work location; company pension and sick pay offered.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a quarry, construction, or similar heavy industry.
• Experience operating machinery (e.g. loaders, crushers, screeners)

Responsibilities

• Cutting stone with machinery (saws/wire saws) in factory.
• Store, load, unload and move materials around the premises on a fork truck or gantry, discarding of waste into the skips.
• Manual Handling unaided (lifting physical stone / consumables such as blades / timbers / skids into position or skips)
• Processing stone to a finished product (unloading and reloading pallets/crates), whilst putting tiles through a processing machine.
• Selecting and packing of finished product from a cutting table or production line onto a pallet or into a crate.
• Operating cranes/gantry with use of chains / slings / suction pads or slab-grabber.
• Grading slabs for quality purpose where applicable.
• Cleaning / Wash-down the workplace on a regular base with both power washer or normal washdown hoses.
• Standing on level and unlevel ground whilst waiting for machinery to arrive
• Using a computer to print labels and attach these labels to slabs or blocks with the use of a silicon-gun.
• Routine scheduled maintenance such as oil and lubrication top-up, vehicle inspection, fuelling your vehicle.
• Request paperwork from admin/supervisors for incoming/outgoing collections.

Skills

Quarry experience

Machinery operation

Job description

Kilkenny Limestone Quarries Ltd is seeking a hands-on quarry operative to cut stone, load and move materials, and perform routine maintenance on site. The role involves manual handling, operating lifting gear, and packing finished products for shipment in a busy production environment.

You'll work 39 hours per week at an hourly rate of €17.02, with time-and-a-half overtime after 39 hours and shift allowances on certain shifts. On-site work location; company pension and sick pay offered.