Forklift Driver

**Purpose of the Role**

To facilitate operations through the accurate and timely execution of tasks within the warehouse environment as assigned to you by your relevant supervisor / team leader.

**Responsibilities**

Receiving:

- 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 standards and procedures.

**Competencies**
- 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

**Requirements**:

- Grade 12/Matric/NQF 4
- Reach truck license for 13 m or counter balance forklift license
- 1 Year reach truck or equivalent experience
- Clear criminal record
- Must possess a current certificate or license