Fork Lift Truck Driver (FLT) - Days Irlam, England
Job description
Kingsland Drinks is a well-established premier independent UK supplier of wine and spirits specialising in providing a complete category solution. Using our consumer understanding and drinks experience, we provide innovative, bespoke solutions to become the partner of choice as we create value for our customers.
Working at Kingsland, a company that is employee owned, means that you can suggest ideas and innovative ways in how we, as a collective run our business. Our most important stakeholder is our members (employees), who have also been key to our success. We have built on our heritage, with a family ethic, and always tried to encourage a positive can-do culture that encourages individual responsibility. We have always valued our members contribution and we recognise that the success of Kingsland has only been possible with everyone’s valued contributions.
Our key objective when we decided on the next step on the journey for Kingsland is for our business to continue to grow and develop and provide security for all our stakeholders. We strongly believe we have created a great legacy that we want to securely hand this on to the next generation and beyond, so the future of the business remains in its own hands. We want Kingsland Drinks Group to be a place people enjoy coming to work and a business our members feel proud of.
We are looking for passionate, professional, and fun-loving candidates to join our expanding business here in Manchester! As we’re accredited in IIP, we are invested in looking after our members and training / developing you to fulfil your careers. Stop ‘wine’ing’, you will have a ‘grape’ time with us.
This role is offered to you on a 4 on 4 off days shift pattern working 6:00am until 18:00pm - The role is offered as a temporary position however could lead to permanent
What does this corker of a job entail?
- Operation of a forklift truck to handle the company's products as required and directed by Warehouse / Stores management or supervision.
- Pick and orders in any given location in line with picking lists as issued, consolidating by works order number in accordance with company requirements. Report any stock discrepancies to stores supervision to enable full investigations to be carried out.
- Marshall completed picked orders in the designated areas along with products picked from other warehouses.
- To provide the line with sufficient materials to maintain its efficiency, to ensure that machines are working at their optimum output.
- Return unused materials to the stores, ensuring the relevant materials movement sheets are completed.
- Maintain safe and effective stowage of company products within the warehouses, carrying out remedial action for any unsafe stowage. Treat any damages or breakers in line with company procedures.
- To minimise waste.
- To ensure that production meet the required quality standards.
- Ensure full check of FLT at the beginning of each shift, completing the daily check form as required. Reporting any defects found during this check and any other time to production supervision.
- Maintain clean and tidy areas of work, ensuring all refuge is placed in designated waste areas.
- Carry out any other duties, which may be required in relation to the above position. Also demonstrating a flexible approach to other departmental working when required to do so.
Key Ingredients
- Experience of working in manufacturing environment with counterbalance licences
- Pivot / Bendi (desirable)
- Must have excellent attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills (oral and written)
- Able to work well as part of a team
- Ability to work accurately and methodically
- Good numeracy and IT skills
- Good communication skills
- Ability to plan and organise work
- An understanding of health and safety requirements
- Flexible approach to duties and tasks
- Good understanding of customer deliverables and the impact of failure / cost of poor quality
- SAP & Hand Held Device knowledge desirable
This job comes with a full bottle / glass of benefits!
- Highly competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement that increases with length of service
- Company day at Christmas, to share with your nearest and dearest
- Annual profit share based on company KPI’s
- Huge discounts on wine and spirits in our company shop!
- Flexible working options
- Life assurance cover
- A generous thank-you gift if you 'recommend a friend' to work with us too. Lots of people work alongside their loved ones at Kingsland.
- Wellbeing resources, including Mental Health First Aiders and access to an EAP with free counselling. Your wellbeing is a top priority, and there's lots of support at Kingsland.
- Well-being App to help support your mental health
- Health Checks (diabetes/blood pressure, stop smoking advice etc.)
- Training and progression opportunities open to all, including fully funded apprenticeships.
- Involvement with New product development (Wine / Spirit tasting)
- On-site free car parking
- Electric Vehicle charging
- Local Community involvement – Irlam Live ticket discounts and Rugby ticket discounts
We welcome applications from everyone. If you have got the talent, the potential, the drive, and determination there is a place for you at Kingsland Drinks Group. Join the team and be our partner in ‘wine’
Don’t bottle it, this job will make your career Fizz!
