Fork Lift Operator

4 months ago

Leicester, United Kingdom Leicestershire County Council Full time

**Organisation**:Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation (ESPO)

**Work Location**: Barnsdale Way, Grove Park, Enderby, Leicester, LE19 1ES

**Salary**:£23,118- £23,505 per annum (pro-rata for part-time) (pay award pending)

**Working Hours**:37 Hours per week

**Contract Type**:Permanent

**Closing Date**: 20/3/24

ESPO is responsible for the supply of goods and services to the Consortium Members of Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Leicester City, Lincolnshire, Peterborough City, Warwickshire, Norfolk and other public bodies within the area and nearby. As a means of providing part of the service, ESPO maintains a 120,000sq ft warehouse at Grove Park for the storage and distribution of a wide range (approximately 11,000 different items), of educational, stationery and cleaning materials and other goods to schools, offices, homes and other establishments and distributes goods to a planned schedule using a fleet of its own and contractors’ vehicles.

Goods are stored within the warehouse on pallet racking up to 12m high, and in ‘picking’ locations at lower levels and in bins. The aisles between the pallet racks are 3.1m wide and electric reach trucks are used to handle the pallets within the warehouse. Gas powered counterbalance trucks are also used externally for the offloading of lorries. VNAs (Very Narrow Aisle) trucks are to be used in the extension storage area.

**About the Role**

The forklift truck driver is, as part of a small team, responsible for the transport and location of stock throughout the warehouse, as required both for storage and to facilitate the picking and despatch of customers’ orders, and associated activities,
- The movement, location storage and retrieval of all palletised goods, using a reach truck, or counterbalance truck, or VNA truck in accordance with the safe systems of work; and the location of goods manually when appropriate.
- Completion of work as assigned by the line manager (section leader/assistant), in accord with relevant priorities. Current range of duties may include ‘putting pallets away’, replenishing aisle locations, or replenishing bin locations, and include recording the detail of all movements efficiently, normally by use of Radio Data Terminals (RDT), or when required direct to PC, or manual hard copy, in accord with current procedures.
- The replenishment of aisle and bin locations will require (as well as the transfer of the complete full pallet) manual handling work off the truck, including some (or all of) handling of empty pallets, tidying of residual stocks, manually transferring stocks from storage pallet to aisle picking locations, and transferring stocks from the storage pallets/cages into bin picking locations, and returning residual storage stocks to the designated storage location, updating the relevant movement records efficiently, as appropriate, normally, by use of RDTs.
- When moving and locating pallets, ensure that all loaded pallets are safe for transit and storage on racking and all items are safely and securely stacked using stretch wrap, or banding, as appropriate and pallets/contents are clearly identified, before placing, or replacing into storage.
- Also, to be aware of pallet load weight and weight distribution and safe working weight capacities throughout the warehouse storage facilities.
- The prescribed operator’s maintenance and pre-operational safety checks on the mechanical handling equipment (MHE) at the start of each use. The exchange and placing ‘on charge’ of batteries or the exchange and safe storage of gas cylinders in accord with safe systems of work.
- Advising the Section Leader of any suspected defects, or need for maintenance of the fork lift trucks, pallet racking, or other equipment, as found.
- Monitor the condition of all pallets and cages in use and putting all those requiring maintenance or repair in the prescribed place.
- As assigned carry out Stock Audit duties, in accord with current procedures, ensuring that all stocks are efficiently identified and counted, and details updated using an RDT.
- When required, the ‘offloading’ of vehicles in the service yard will be using a counterbalance truck to receive supplier’s stock with the minimum of delay and check the correctness of suppliers’ paperwork for the goods being delivered.
- Offload of pallets, parcels, other goods etc, and sign for that received in accord with procedures.
- Checking parcels in accord with procedures. Move and locate parcels and pallets to designated areas, as appropriate.
- The loading of goods (returns) onto suppliers’ vehicles, when required, under the guidance of the driver.
- If occasionally not required as a Forklift Truck Driver, the operator will carry out the normal duties of a Goods Inwards or Replenishment Storekeeper, to a competent standard, or other duties within the warehouse reasonably requested.
- The post holder may be required to attend, training, refresher and familiarisation courses, as d

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