Forklift Instructor

**Role**: Forklift Instructor

**Contract**: Permanent

**Salary**: Competitive

**Location**: Lisburn (occasional travel to Dublin to support ROI team)***

Due to continued growth and expansion, we are looking for an additional Forklift Instructor to join our Briggs Academy team.

**As a Forklift Instructor you will be responsible for;**
- Developing and delivering forklift, powered access and general plant driver training courses to Briggs staff, apprentices, and customers.
- Developing and communicating training courses to customers working closely with Sales, Truckcare and Service Staff.
- Supervising all training courses to maintain safety of all involved to maximise learning.
- Maintaining up-to-date product knowledge.
- Keeping all training courses current with latest government safety standards and polices/procedures.
- Designing, building, and maintaining appropriate training areas.
- Working with Managers to ensure required staff have the correct and current certificates to meet legal obligations.

**As a Forklift Instructor you will have**;
- Accredited instructor ideally within a recognised training body, i.e AITT, RTITB, ITSSAR or IPAF certified
- Good attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills and confident in the classroom environment
- Forklift, powered access, and general product knowledge
- Experience of working in a fast paced, dynamic business
- Great organisational and time management skills

**As a Forklift Instructor you will receive;**
- A competitive base salary based
- Company vehicle
- Contributory pension scheme
- Paycare health scheme
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Sick pay
- Profit share scheme after 12 months service

**About Us**

Briggs Equipment is an engineering services and asset management specialist with its people core to everything that it does. We are Hyster-Yale Group’s exclusive UK distributor for materials handling equipment and have extended our offering to include industrial cleaning, aerial access, groundworks, agricultural plant and machinery to offer customers a total solution based on the service we can provide. Our team members are highly skilled and can offer flexible and bespoke solutions for our customers across a range of new, used or short term hire equipment.

**Our Values**
- Safety first
- Easy to work with
- It’s our business
- Innovate and Improve
- Build trust

Our values are based around employee experience as we believe this will also support high levels of customer engagement. We want our people to be empowered to identify improvements or risks and offer solutions. We encourage open and honest communication to make Briggs the best place to work.

**Our Culture**

We empower our people to make the right decisions for the right reasons which ultimately is to provide long term security of employment for us all. Our people tell us that they know what is expected of them at work and that they have the opportunity to do what they do best every day. We have an open communication style embracing two way discussion to obtain feedback for continual improvements.