Forklift Driver

PERMANENT VACANCY

FORKLIFT DRIVER

At G's, we are proud of our heritage as market-led growers and suppliers of sustainable and healthy farm fresh produce.  Through providing innovative solutions to our customers from Seed to Shelf we have ambitious growth plans to be the lead in our industry sector. G's is an incredibly exciting and fun place to work and we are on a mission to attract new talent into our business; it is a fast-paced, stimulating and rewarding environment with plenty of opportunities for our People to grow.  We can only achieve this through living our values each and every day in everything we do;  Trust, Efficiency, Quality, Expertise, Can-do.

We are currently seeking a Forklift Driver at Ramsey, reporting to the Team Leader.

The Key Responsibilities are:

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 label with 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 down grading raw material.

Cold storage/ onion stores

• Ensure that all products and bins from the grader / production are stored safely in the cold storage area’s 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, it`s 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 back yard if fully trained.
• Usage of Ramp, only if fully trained
• Loading and unloading vehicles with bins or pallet
• A full job description is available on application.

A full job description is available on application.

Applicants must have experience in driving a forklift truck and must be in possession of a current licence.

Days of work:  Monday to Friday.   Hours of work: 6am until 3pm (40 hours guaranteed).