NEW PAY RATE - Forklift Truck Driver Forklift Truck Driver Milton Keynes, England
Job description
Competitive new pay rates plus benefits
Refresco, the world’s largest independent soft drinks manufacturer is recruiting a Forklift Truck Driver for our Milton Keynes Site. You will play an important role in making sure some of the best-known drink’s brands in the UK are manufactured to the right quality and delivered on time to our many customers. Refresco is always changing, always innovating, always growing, creating endless opportunities for you to develop and grow your career with us in the future.
About the Role
As a FLT Driver, you will be performing all duties in the Site Supply Function within the Factory. You will be involved in loading, storage, rotation and receipt functions of Finished Goods, Raw Materials, Packaging, Waste, Raw Materials Ingredients, Colours and Flavours, and Pallet Stocks are undertaken to achieve the daily Site Supply plan. Your daily duties will involve:
As a Warehouse Operative/Forklift Driver your main tasks and duties will be:
- Running effective operation of FLT equipment and palletisers.
- Cleaning lubrication and basic maintenance of FLT equipment and palletisers to agreed standards.
- Correct handling, storage of materials to Refresco standards, whilst minimising waste.
- Operating Materials Handling Equipment in accordance with Company MHE Standards
- Supporting the delivery of key performance indicators for the Factory linked to Safety, Quality, People, Delivery and Cost Standards
- Pro-actively identifying areas for continuous improvement within the work environment/equipment systems.
- Management of returns process/FIFO ingredients/pallet rotation and cycle count processes and audits.
See what it is like to be part of the Refresco Milton Keynes team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWQUT72RD1M
Salary and Benefits
You will be paid £31,725.05 – this is inclusive of £22,626.24 (£10.36 per hour) base salary, shift allowance of £1,719.59 and a temporary supplement of £7,379.22 (£3.38 per hour) until Jan 2024. Your shift pattern will be 2 Days 2 Nights 4 on 4 off. In addition, you will have 2 x your annual base salary life assurance, a good company pension scheme, a sports and social fund and free on-site car parking.
We also offer our employees access to GroceryAid, a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical advice and counselling to people working in the grocery industry https://www.groceryaid.org.uk/, and Perkbox, offering our employees discounts to many well-known brands https://www.perkbox.com/uk
About You
You are going to be part of the Refresco team at Milton Keynes, so it’s important you work and communicate well with your colleagues, support them when needed, take time to understand what they do, and learn how we all contribute to achieving our goals.
The Refresco Values are what has made us successful and will help us and you grow in the future. If you follow the Refresco Values, you can’t go wrong!
Find out more here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values
About Refresco
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're passionate about producing tasty, refreshing drinks but we’re thirsty for more and growing fast. We’re a global business and have invested heavily to expand our manufacturing footprint to make us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 12 billion litres from nearly 80 manufacturing plants in 13 countries and we’re only just getting started…
Our UK Business has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1800 employees producing own label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading UK supermarkets. We also manufacture many of the best-known branded drink’s such as Monster Energy, Innocent, Ocean Spray and Vimto. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles, or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards and are on the customer tables for every occasion!
We’re an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £31,725.05 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
Schedule:
- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Night shift
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Milton Keynes, MK15 0DD: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you have the legal right to work in the UK?
- Do you have a current FLT License?
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: 14224
