Forklift Driver
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
- Cambridgeshire
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 15 Jul 2021
- Closes
- 12 Aug 2021
- Sectors
- Automotive & Driving
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Exciting opportunity for two Forklift Drivers to join our Production Team based in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire
G's is an incredibly exciting place to work, at the forefront of modern farming and food distribution means it's fast-paced, stimulating, and rewarding. We work with the biggest food retail brands in the UK and Europe and want people who will do what's right for G's and our customers.
Role Requirements & Responsibilities
Setting up the Line
Liaise with supervisor/team leader prior to the start of the shift to ensure that all required raw material, pallets are available for operatives to commence work immediately upon entering the environment.
Supply grader with empty bins and remove full bins from the line as required.
Also, produce a label with the correct information for each bin, IE. Correct size, grower.
Stock Rotation
Ensure that all stocks are scanned correctly to the right location and in rotation thus minimizing the risk of over-pack and downgrading raw material.
Cold Storage/Onion Stores
Ensure that all products and bins from the grader/production are stored safely in the cold storage area and onion stores.
Finished/Grade Product
Ensure that all product, once finished with, is either returned to cold storage (with appropriate pallet/bin labels) or taken to dispatch/onions store.
All products ready for dispatch are to be stored in the correct place, always.
Communicate with the dispatch team to ensure that product can be readily found.
Scanning
The accurate recording of material brought out from and returned to storage, ensure this is completed on a daily basis thus providing the teams with information relating to pack-outs. Ensure that every time a pallet/bin is moved, its scanned to its new location.
Hygiene
At the end of each shift assist with the cleaning and tidying of all the production areas ensuring that site safety and hygiene rules are adhered to at all times.
Forklift
In compliance with the safe working procedures for forklifts, ensure daily checks are carried out on all machinery prior to their usage and report any faults as soon as they become apparent, thus minimizing the risk of accidents.
Intake/Yard
Only use JCB in the back yard if fully trained.
Usage of Ramp, only if fully trained.
Loading and unloading vehicles with bins or pallets
Grader
Change and clean topper beds and blades, while the grader is not running.
Clean coils and belts while the grader not running.
Responsible for sorting and fixing grade screens
Change of screens as required by Line Manager.
Banksman as required when fully trained.
Lean Responsibilities
Contribute to daily Top5 meetings (team communication sessions).
Understand the performance indicators discussed in your Top5 meeting.
To be open to new ideas and challenges every day.
Learn and understand not only your own but other team members' jobs as well.
Listen, show patience and respect.
Submit iDeas for Improvement.
Take an active part in improvement activities and workshops.
Know and be able to identify the 7 wastes in your area.
Respect 5S and standard work.
Work proactively as a team member.
Demonstrate behaviour that fits the Company's core values.
Cross-skill to maximise flexibility.
Job rotation - a technique in which employees are moved between two or more lines/areas in a planned manner.
Accurate completion of paperwork related to the task at hand.
Candidate Requirements
RTITB forklift licence essential.
Excellent coordination.
Good time-management skills.
Great interpersonal and communication skills.
Attention to detail.
Ability to work in a dynamic environment.
Hours of work: 78.85 hrs/14 days - Panama shift 05:45 am to 18:00 pm
G's is an incredibly exciting place to work, at the forefront of modern farming and food distribution means it's fast-paced, stimulating, and rewarding. We work with the biggest food retail brands in the UK and Europe and want people who will do what's right for G's and our customers.
Role Requirements & Responsibilities
Setting up the Line
Liaise with supervisor/team leader prior to the start of the shift to ensure that all required raw material, pallets are available for operatives to commence work immediately upon entering the environment.
Supply grader with empty bins and remove full bins from the line as required.
Also, produce a label with the correct information for each bin, IE. Correct size, grower.
Stock Rotation
Ensure that all stocks are scanned correctly to the right location and in rotation thus minimizing the risk of over-pack and downgrading raw material.
Cold Storage/Onion Stores
Ensure that all products and bins from the grader/production are stored safely in the cold storage area and onion stores.
Finished/Grade Product
Ensure that all product, once finished with, is either returned to cold storage (with appropriate pallet/bin labels) or taken to dispatch/onions store.
All products ready for dispatch are to be stored in the correct place, always.
Communicate with the dispatch team to ensure that product can be readily found.
Scanning
The accurate recording of material brought out from and returned to storage, ensure this is completed on a daily basis thus providing the teams with information relating to pack-outs. Ensure that every time a pallet/bin is moved, its scanned to its new location.
Hygiene
At the end of each shift assist with the cleaning and tidying of all the production areas ensuring that site safety and hygiene rules are adhered to at all times.
Forklift
In compliance with the safe working procedures for forklifts, ensure daily checks are carried out on all machinery prior to their usage and report any faults as soon as they become apparent, thus minimizing the risk of accidents.
Intake/Yard
Only use JCB in the back yard if fully trained.
Usage of Ramp, only if fully trained.
Loading and unloading vehicles with bins or pallets
Grader
Change and clean topper beds and blades, while the grader is not running.
Clean coils and belts while the grader not running.
Responsible for sorting and fixing grade screens
Change of screens as required by Line Manager.
Banksman as required when fully trained.
Lean Responsibilities
Contribute to daily Top5 meetings (team communication sessions).
Understand the performance indicators discussed in your Top5 meeting.
To be open to new ideas and challenges every day.
Learn and understand not only your own but other team members' jobs as well.
Listen, show patience and respect.
Submit iDeas for Improvement.
Take an active part in improvement activities and workshops.
Know and be able to identify the 7 wastes in your area.
Respect 5S and standard work.
Work proactively as a team member.
Demonstrate behaviour that fits the Company's core values.
Cross-skill to maximise flexibility.
Job rotation - a technique in which employees are moved between two or more lines/areas in a planned manner.
Accurate completion of paperwork related to the task at hand.
Candidate Requirements
RTITB forklift licence essential.
Excellent coordination.
Good time-management skills.
Great interpersonal and communication skills.
Attention to detail.
Ability to work in a dynamic environment.
Hours of work: 78.85 hrs/14 days - Panama shift 05:45 am to 18:00 pm