Counterbalance Forklift Driver

**Forklift Driver (Counterbalance) - IMMEDIATE START - MILTON KEYNES**

gap personnel acting as an employment business are recruiting for **Forklift Driver (Counterbalance)** for a permanent contract based in **Milton Keynes**, Buckinghamshire.

The site offers superb, modern production facilities and operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You will work closely with the shift leaders and senior management to ensure each product is prepared, packaged, and dispatched on time for customer delivery.

**Reporting directly to the shift leader your duties will included**:

- Preparing recipes in batches to order, ensuring product specification ratios are adhered to.
- Use of Forklift to unload and load of deliveries
- Use of Forklift to place pallets within warehouse and production areas
- Operating equipment within the production rooms and store areas using health and safety rules, while maintaining targeted output with mínimal interruption.
- Loading and unloading machines and packaging finished goods.
- Previous FMCG experience essential.
- In Date Counterbalance licence essential
- Well-organised and able to work unsupervised.
- Be able to follow procedures to KPI standards.
- Good understanding of English, Maths and Comprehension

**Working hours are**:

- 4 on and 4 off shift pattern (2 days 0600 to 1800 / 2 days 1800 to 0600) and then 4 days off

The annual salary for the role is:
**£24,694 per annum + OT over 48 hours**

Considerations before applying:

- Are you able to work the set shift pattern?
- Do you have experience within food manufacturing?
- Are you able to commute to site for the set start times?