Forklift Operator

Company description:

Premier Foods is one of Britain’s biggest listed food companies, employing over 4,000 colleagues at 15 manufacturing sites and offices up and down the country. Many of our brands have been part of UK life for more than a century and you’ll find them in 94% of British households.

Location: Ambrosia Creamery, PL16 0BB

Shift Pattern: 3 days on 4 days off

Salary: £29,339.48

Working as part of a multidisciplined Warehouse team to ensure products and materials are flowing seamlessly around the site. To carry out FLT duties covering the whole site, including production lines, warehouse and dispensary. Warehousing and / or loading finished goods products as produced, maintaining accurate stock records and documentation as required.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

• Ensure production lines are cleared in an effective and timely manner


• Transporting finished product to relevant storage areas when necessary or loading directly on to trailers


• Unloading stock from trailers and delivering to relevant area


• Creating delivery notes through SAP system and issuing batches


• Issuing and returning packaging, trays, pots and labels to production lines


• Delivering chemicals to dispensary teams


• Disposing of any non-confirming material as directed


• Emptying bins from around the site and transporting to designated refuse areas


• Transport rework to or from the production lines as required by production team leaders


• Work closely with all departments to ensure production lines efficiency is maximised and that any issues are highlighted and resolved in timely fashion


• Completing change of shift handovers to a good quality, communicating effectively with other team members


• Follow all Safety, Health and Environmental procedures (ISO, SOP’s) that relate to this role


• Carry out and document when required, all equipment pre-use safety checks, reporting any issues identified


• Seek ways to improve any duties that require to be carried out to make safer, cleaner and more cost-effective ways of working


• To be proactive with waste/recycling separation


• Ensuring waste bins are clean & to the site standard before accepting delivery


• checking and sorting bin contents before removing from factory


• working with TLs and operators to improve initial segregation


• covering the recycling area when operator is off


• Carry out any ad hoc duties that may be required by the business from time to time

• On time delivery of completed paperwork


• Completion of daily safety checklists as required for audit purposes


• Accurate production and content of delivery notes

• Strong attention to detail


• Ability to work with minimal supervision and as part of a team


• FLT licence or willingness to obtain through company training

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