Forklift Driver

homechoice; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 134,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

homechoice in Cape Town is seeking a forklift driver to facilitate warehouse operations by accurately and timely completing tasks under supervision. You will be loading and unloading pallets, packaging orders, and moving stock through receiving, staging, and distribution areas.

Role requires a Grade 12, forklift licence and current certification. You will contribute to housekeeping, health and safety, and general DC activities to meet customer expectations.

Qualifications

• Grade 12/Matric is required.
• Forklift licence is essential.
• Current forklift certificate/licence is required.
• Be able to work accurately with scanners and labels.

Responsibilities

• Load and unload pallets safely according to storage instructions.
• Offload/ad hoc vehicles in the yard and maintain yard housekeeping.
• Move palletized stock from receiving bays to staging areas.
• Count, label, wrap and stock palletized goods as required.
• Assist with conveyor operations and packing of orders.
• Support ad hoc warehouse tasks to meet department targets.

Skills

Numeracy

Literacy

Under pressure

Attention to detail

Team player

Education

Grade 12 / Matric

Forklift licence

Current certificate or licence

Job description

homechoice is a leading South African homeware retailer. For 40 years we’ve helped our customers create beautiful homes they love with an innovative range of quality products they can afford.
The forklift Driver woll be responsible to facilitate operations through the accurate and timely execution of tasks within the warehouse environment as assigned by your relevant supervisor/team leader.

Receiving

What you will love doing in this role

• Ensure pallets are loaded in a safe, secure manner and there is compliance to stock / pallet storage instructions.
• Offloading and loading of all adhoc vehicles in the yard.
• Maintaining a high standard of housekeeping in the yard by ensuring that all pallets are separated according to "good' and "bad" and that they are stacked and stored safely.
• Advise housekeeping problems in a timely manner to ensure that the housekeeping standards are maintained.
• Offloading of inbounds, palletizing of inbounds, counting and labelling of inbounds, wrapping of pallets, Movement of palletized stock from receiving bays to staging areas.

Inventory

• Accurate execution of tasks as instructed by scanners. These will typically include the following (but not limited to) - Bin to bin movements, stock consolidation tasks, RBT’s, cycle counts etc by the scanner/system.

Picking

• Accurate picking of any and of all types of orders.(internal and external)
• Decanting of no stocks to original picking bin.

Conveyor Work

• This is includes working on any of the conveyors and or machinery on the conveyor system to support the departmental KPI’s to support our customers experience.

Packing

• Packing of internal and or external orders to within the departmental KPI’s to support our customer experience.

Distribution

• This will include tasks such as loading, offloading & scanning of stock and or customer orders.

Adhoc Task

• Supporting DC activity for any / all ad hoc work tasks that are required to be executed.
• These can include but are not limited to building combos, breaking combos, labelling, rebooting, cleaning, fixing pallets etc.
• Performance in line with departmental goals, targets, standards and UPM.

Housekeeping

• Ensure that your area of responsibility is clean, neat and tidy at all times in accordance with the standard.
• It will be your responsibility to identify if any of your allocated equipment (tools) is faulty to ensure you receive a replacement.
• It is also your responsibility to ensure that you look after your allocated equipment (tools).
• Ensures that all equipment in your area of responsibility is kept clean and in good working condition throughout your shift.
• Ensure daily check sheets are completed and filed before / after using it and that it’s handed in at your Supervisor.

Health and Safety

• Play an active role on the Health and Safety committee as a Section 8 appointee.
• Champion and enforce health and safety practices as per the DC safety.

What You’ll Need To Do This Role

• Grade 12/Matric/NQF 4
• Forklift license
• 1 - 5 Year reach truck or equivalent experience
• Must possess a current certificate or license

What We Will Love About You

• Good numeracy and literacy skills
• Ability to work well under pressure
• High attention to detail and level of accuracy
• Strong team player with the ability to drive change positively
• Relentless drive to meet deadlines and customer demands

Behaviors we love

Wow my customer

• Walk in my customers’ shoes
• Deliver on my promises
• Deliver insight-led solutions my customers need

Treat the business as my own

• Take accountability
• Be curious, creative & explore opportunities
• Do it right & at the right time

Play as a team

• Be helpful
• Be inclusive
• Find the fun