Counterbalance Forklift Driver (Days) (12436)

Overview

Reference
12436

Salary
£27,840.72 - £27,840.72/annum

Job Location
- United Kingdom -- England -- Yorkshire and the Humber -- West Yorkshire -- Wakefield

Job Type
Permanent

Posted
17 July 2025


Counterbalance Forklift Driver (Days)

Menzies Distribution Solutions are currently recruiting for a Counterbalance Forklift Driver/Warehouse Operative to join our team in Wakefield. The purpose of this role is to provide accurate and prompt picking, packing and dispatch of the depot warehouse goods & requires you to complete various warehouse tasks, as safely, accurately and as efficiently as possible upholding and the highest standards of health and safety at all times. Also includes other duties to help maintain the efficient and successful working of the warehouse.

*** We are looking for Counterbalance, Reach Truck & Pivot steer (Flexi/bendi/aislemaster) Licences and experience in using them preferable ***

The Details:

  • Salary: £27,840.72 annual, £12.74 per hour
  • Shift Pattern: 4 On/ 4 Off
  • Shift Pattern: 06:30-18:30
  • 42 Hours Per Week
  • Full-time, permanent
  • Wakefield, WF2 0XE
  • Forklift Experience is Mandatory
  • Monthly Pay
  • Parking Onsite

Warehouse Operative duties:

  • Co-operate fully with the sites safety requirements
  • Receive deliveries of customer stock from trailers into warehouse. Check quantities, record receipt and pass on paperwork
  • Pick and pack customer orders to achieve agreed turn-round targets, dispatching orders with appropriate paperwork. Both full pallet and manual case/break picked from the racking and ground locations
  • Load trailers with customer goods in timely manner
  • Put away of customer goods from the warehouse floor into the racking
  • Manual handling of products
  • Signing for and accepting responsibility for tasks that have been completed
  • Housekeeping, both physical completion and hygiene checks
  • Stock integrity and quality checks
  • Keep warehouse and outside forecourts clean and tidy including shelf dusting, keeping gangways clear and litter removal

About you:

  • Good Communication & team working skills
  • Experience operating within a warehouse environment
  • Basic numeracy and literacy skills
  • A professional manner

BENEFITS

  • Pension Scheme
  • Employee Assistance Program

INCLUSION

Menzies Distribution Solutions is committed to creating a fair and inclusive environment where employees feel safe, proud and valued. We encourage ways of working that treat everyone fairly and with respect, and we look to create opportunities to improve the diversity of our workforce across all areas of the business.  

We seek to attract and recruit people from the widest talent pool, who reflect the society in which we work. And we aim to encourage an inclusive culture where people can feel empowered to be the very best they can be, and to reach their full potential creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate. 


Contact information

Julie Stevenson

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