59 Forklift Driver jobs in South Africa

To operate and maintain the Forklift in a safe and cost effective manner. Ensure comprehensive Customer service in the Store. Merchandising of stock, shelf price labelling and housekeeping within designated area of responsibility.

• Grade 12 or minimum of 1 (one) year work related experience
• Ability to communicate in English and the dominant language spoken in the geographical area where the position is available
• Ability to perform basic calculations accurately
• Must be willing to work shifts, weekends and Public Holidays
• Must be able to work under pressure
• Must be physically fit to operate a forklift
• Must have a valid forklift license

Customer Service

• Acknowledge all Customers and determine their needs
• Advise Customers correctly on product
• Assist Customer with any product queries
• Assist with Customer complaints timely
• Add on sales, e.g. paint v/s paint brushes, thinners, etc.
• Ensure efficient Customer service by ensuring that Customer's purchases are loaded without any delay's
• Ensure Customers purchase are loaded carefully without damaging the goods or the Customers vehicle
• Advise Customers on the additional services provided:
• Delivery service / bulk deposits
• Glass cutting
• Plan reading
• Credit programmes
• Special orders
• Trusses
• Distant ordering
• VIC Customer Programme
• Must be certified in Product Knowledge
• Must be available in aisle of responsibility

Merchandising Standards

• Bulk stock area to be merchandised safely and according to Store layout plan
• Must ensure your area of responsibility is fully merchandised according to Store layout and planograms.
• Merchandise stock according to approved layouts and planograms

Housekeeping

Ensure that your area is free of obstacles, stock is merchandised immediately after being received and that Customers can enter and leave your aisle without any risk of injury or irritation.

Correct shelf price labelling within area of responsibility.

Ensure Checklist completed as required when on duty with Canteen and Toilet / Showers schedule

Ready for Business

Adhere to Ready for Business and Beyond my Control as per the CB Way

Loss Prevention and Security

Identify any gaps in the displays, investigate causes and report any concerns to management

Be aware of suspicious behaviours or people and report any suspicions to management

No product to be loaded for a Customer without proof of purchase or required documentation

Safety (OHSA) Requirements

• Ensure not to overload the Forklift
• Ensure not to overload racking and shelving (Do not stack roof tiles / bricks and cement more than two pallets high.)
• Ensure to wear the Safety Helmet and Kidney Belt at all times when operating the Forklift
• Do not use forklift to lift personnel.
• Ensure that the Entrance and Exit are free of obstacles and that Customers can enter and leave Cashbuild's Stores without risk of injury
• Ensure to report any faults on the Forklift immediately
• Ensure to report in time when the Forklift is due for a service
• Ensure to wear protective clothing when necessary
• Do not operate the Forklift if there are any mechanical faults
• Ensure that the Forklift is inspected daily, checklist completed and any faults report.

Integrity

• Complying with generally accepted standards in activities related to the position.
• keeps promises.
• creates realistic expectations.
• is sincere.
• handles sensitive information carefully.
• shows awareness of values, indicates when boundaries are crossed.

Accuracy

• Effectively handling detailed information and being consistently attentive to details.
• Works in an orderly fashion.
• Ensures that matters are handled in an orderly and accurate manner from start to finish.
• Prevents mistakes.
• Invests energy in checking his/her work for mistakes.

Client focus

• Identifying and actively responding to clients' wishes and needs.
• Deals with clients in a friendly manner.
• Shows involvement in the client's problem.
• Makes clients feel welcome.
• Approaches the client's question with a can-do mentality

Personal development

• Being aware of one's own strengths and weaknesses: consciously working on personal development.
• Is focused on self-broadening and/or gaining more in-depth knowledge.
• Follows relevant training programmes and/or looks for opportunities to gain experience.
• Seeks and uses opportunities for personal development.
• Asks for feedback in order to learn

The Novus Print division has a proud legacy, which includes the highest level of manufacturing excellence, first mover in new technology and solutions-orientated offerings. The team is exceptionally strong and is seasoned in standardisation and optimisation of processes, able to adapt quickly to change and most importantly solid in its culture and values.

Novus Print: Montague Gardens is seeking to appoint a diligent Forklift Driver with a high regard for detail to transport and load production material by prescribed procedures and principles while maintaining safe occupational health and safety standards. The successful incumbent will report directly to the Despatch Supervisor.

• Completing daily check sheets on Forklift equipment
• Receiving, transporting and loading of production material to prescribed procedures and standards
• Reporting any faults on the forklift to the Supervisor
• Forklift certification per OHS standard
• Ensuring a safe and accident-free environment
• Adherence to all safety regulations and work standards
• Ensure good housekeeping standards are maintained

• Matric (Grade 12) or equivalent
• Valid Forklift driver's lisence

• 1 - 2 years experience within a warehouse environment
• knowledge of RF scanners

• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent time and attendance
• The ability to handle pressure
• Interpersonal communication
• It important to note that the nature of the job requires the ability to work long hours, shifts, weekends, overtime and public holidays.

• Operating a Forklift

• Interpreting Invoices

• Maintenance of forklift

• Customer Service

• Goods location, stacking and packing

• To uphold and promote the company values and culture

Grade 12

Valid Forklift Driver's certificate

A minimum of 2 year's forklift driving experience

To operate and maintain the Forklift in a safe and cost effective manner. Ensure comprehensive Customer service in the Store. Merchandising of stock, shelf price labelling and housekeeping within designated area of responsibility.

• Grade 12 or minimum of 1 (one) year work related experience
• Ability to communicate in English and the dominant language spoken in the geographical area where the position is available
• Ability to perform basic calculations accurately
• Must be willing to work shifts, weekends and Public Holidays
• Must be able to work under pressure
• Must be physically fit to operate a forklift
• Must have a valid forklift license

Customer Service

• Acknowledge all Customers and determine their needs
• Advise Customers correctly on product
• Assist Customer with any product queries
• Assist with Customer complaints timely
• Add on sales, e.g. paint v/s paint brushes, thinners, etc.
• Ensure efficient Customer service by ensuring that Customer's purchases are loaded without any delay's
• Ensure Customers purchase are loaded carefully without damaging the goods or the Customers vehicle
• Advise Customers on the additional services provided:
• Delivery service / bulk deposits
• Glass cutting
• Plan reading
• Credit programmes
• Special orders
• Trusses
• Distant ordering
• VIC Customer Programme
• Must be certified in Product Knowledge
• Must be available in aisle of responsibility

Merchandising Standards

• Bulk stock area to be merchandised safely and according to Store layout plan
• Must ensure your area of responsibility is fully merchandised according to Store layout and planograms.
• Merchandise stock according to approved layouts and planograms

Housekeeping

Ensure that your area is free of obstacles, stock is merchandised immediately after being received and that Customers can enter and leave your aisle without any risk of injury or irritation.

Correct shelf price labelling within area of responsibility.

Ensure Checklist completed as required when on duty with Canteen and Toilet / Showers schedule

Ready for Business

Adhere to Ready for Business and Beyond my Control as per the CB Way

Loss Prevention and Security

Identify any gaps in the displays, investigate causes and report any concerns to management

Be aware of suspicious behaviours or people and report any suspicions to management

No product to be loaded for a Customer without proof of purchase or required documentation

Safety (OHSA) Requirements

• Ensure not to overload the Forklift
• Ensure not to overload racking and shelving (Do not stack roof tiles / bricks and cement more than two pallets high.)
• Ensure to wear the Safety Helmet and Kidney Belt at all times when operating the Forklift
• Do not use forklift to lift personnel.
• Ensure that the Entrance and Exit are free of obstacles and that Customers can enter and leave Cashbuild's Stores without risk of injury
• Ensure to report any faults on the Forklift immediately
• Ensure to report in time when the Forklift is due for a service
• Ensure to wear protective clothing when necessary
• Do not operate the Forklift if there are any mechanical faults
• Ensure that the Forklift is inspected daily, checklist completed and any faults report.

Integrity

• Complying with generally accepted standards in activities related to the position.
• keeps promises.
• creates realistic expectations.
• is sincere.
• handles sensitive information carefully.
• shows awareness of values, indicates when boundaries are crossed.

Accuracy

• Effectively handling detailed information and being consistently attentive to details.
• Works in an orderly fashion.
• Ensures that matters are handled in an orderly and accurate manner from start to finish.
• Prevents mistakes.
• Invests energy in checking his/her work for mistakes.

Client focus

• Identifying and actively responding to clients' wishes and needs.
• Deals with clients in a friendly manner.
• Shows involvement in the client's problem.
• Makes clients feel welcome.
• Approaches the client's question with a can-do mentality

Personal development

• Being aware of one's own strengths and weaknesses: consciously working on personal development.
• Is focused on self-broadening and/or gaining more in-depth knowledge.
• Follows relevant training programmes and/or looks for opportunities to gain experience.
• Seeks and uses opportunities for personal development.
• Asks for feedback in order to learn

Introduction to the VKB Group

The VKB Group is an agricultural company, providing support to farmers and producing straight-from-the farm-foods for consumers. Apart from the various consumer brands, the VKB Group is also represented by its regional brands: VKB, GWK and NTK. Our roots are firmly planted in agriculture with farming at our core, continuously growing and evolving throughout the years.

Starting with providing everything needed on the farm to produce food, we now also operate in all areas of the food supply chain: processing, logistics, and national and global market channels.

This "house of brands" we've established with the support of our farmer shareholders is the foundation for building the agribusiness of the future.

Our purpose

Touch lives – for the better: We always aim to make a positive impact in people's lives: our employees, producers, clients, communities and the larger industry. And, through collaboration with this group of people, we strive to make an even bigger and longer lasting impact in the lives of all South Africans.

Values

We live by five important values:

We are HUMBLE

We acknowledge that we are blessed

We are HUNGRY

We do not settle for mediocre

We are BOLD

We do what is right, even if it scares us

We are SMART

We consider our words and actions

We are TEAM PLAYERS

No-one can do this alone

Our legacy

For the Love of the Land: We do it all for our legacy and the love of nature, people, country, sustainability and progress

Job Description

Loads , lifts and moves articles on pallets within or outside the company's premises. Will be loading trucks for client dispatch.

Requirements

• Grade 12 or NQF 4
• Minimum of 3 year experience
• Valid forklift license or willingness to be re-examined
• Code 10 license with PDP would serve as advantage
• Willing to work shifts and overtime
• Knowledge of Tyre overhaul and repair would serve as advantage
• Traceable references

Skills Required

• Accuracy
• Excellent client service
• Service orientated
• Attention to detail

Duties

• Controls offloading of goods
• Loads, lifts and moves articles on pallets
• Other industry related functions

Other Information

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• Things to take note of when applying through our Career Portal.
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• Operating a Forklift

• Interpreting Invoices

• Maintenance of forklift

• Customer Service

• Goods location, stacking and packing

• To uphold and promote the company values and culture

Grade 12

Valid Forklift Driver's certificate

A minimum of 2 year's forklift driving experience

Operations

Accountable for own work within defined operating procedures, standards and work routines.

Job Purpose

To ensure effective operational excellence is achieved through the efficient and accurate loading and

offloading of production lines and trucks in operations.

Accountabilities and Outputs

Efficient Forklift Operation

Perform start up inspection and register for forklift operation

Feed production with preforms or empty cans

Feed lines with layer pads

Feed lines with empty pallets

Take out finished product from the Production Lines and place into the relevant warehouse sections

Abide by health and safety requirements of the company and ensure that actions do not endanger

fellow colleagues, equipment or property

Abide by quality measures in place within the company

Adherence to the health, safety, food and environmental standards

Staff shall adhere to all Food Safety Policies and PRPs and shall adhere to and enforce all food

safety requirements at all times

Staff shall adhere to Health, Safety & Environmental Policies and PRPs and shall adhere to and

enforce all Health and Safety requirements at all times

Visitor and Contractor Policy staff shall ensure that visitors or contractors entering the facility are

signed in, escorted and wear PPE, are aware of the hygiene policies and do not smoke, eat or drink

inside the facility

Code of Practice staff shall maintain high levels of personal hygiene in accordance with the code

of conduct

Handwashing Procedure Ensuring staff are cleaning and sanitizing hands efficiently before

handling the product.

Physical Contamination Control Policy and Procedure Staff shall be aware of the potential of

physical product contamination. Staff is aware of control measures to prevent physical

contamination.

Safety, Health and Environment Policy Staff take reasonable measures to ensure health and safety

hazards do not occur. Should an accident occur, staff shall be aware of the procedure of reporting

the incident.

First Aid Policy Staff are aware of the first aider on site. Staff is trained to report injuries and

illness to supervisors/first aiders.

Conversant with relevant business information, policies, processes and procedures

Maintains expected performance standards

Enforce compliance with relevant legislative and statutory requirements

Enforce GMPs and conduct themselves in a manner conducive with food safety practices

Attend Training and enforce learnings from the training for Quality, Food Safety and Health & Safety

that been prescribed for them

Be vigilant of food defense and food fraud risks

Maintain a high level of housekeeping within the work environment

General

Responsible to ensure housekeeping is performed and ensure that all products and activities are

stored and are executed within the demarcated areas according to the housekeeping policy (green

red and yellow areas)

Conversant with relevant business information, policies, processes and procedures

Maintains expected performance standards

While Job Descriptions are written up for the purpose of a basic outline of the work and

responsibilities associated with the Job, the Company encourages and expects all employees from

time to time, to assist with work that may not be a direct part of their job description

Qualifications and Experience

Grade 12 / Matric / NQF level 4 and valid Forklift Licence (Essential)

Upto 3 years experience (Operational Execution) FMCG

Key Qualities

Communication

Routine communication in connection with instructions, requests or normal work tasks

Problem Solving

Proactive identification of problems that are concrete and procedural, apply known solutions in line

with guidelines provided or escalate more difficult problems to superiors.

Relationships Maintained

Others in own work areaForklift

Behavioural Competencies

Verbal Communication

Able to communicate verbally in a logical manner.

Takes the intended audience into account when communicating verbal information.

Makes use of appropriate business language in verbal communication.

Includes all relevant information in verbal arguments.

Demonstrates proficiency of language in verbal communication.

Interprets complex information to expresses own viewpoint in verbal communication.

Concludes verbal arguments by making reference to relevant facts

Decision Making

Organises information to make it easier to analyse or see trends.

Anticipates consequences and formulates alternatives.

Establishes clear decision criteria for making informed choices.

Seeks relevant information to better understand situations and problems.

Conducts appropriate analysis; neither makes snap decisions or over-analyses.

Sees relationships between various facts, figures or other information.

Continuous Improvement

Increases performance expectations when success has been achieved

Seeks out sources of information, including trade associations, best practice companies, customers,

peers, subordinates, etc.

Finds ways to fast-adapt improvement ideas to work processes

Proactively seeks out resources, alliances, etc., needed to quickly introduce improvements

Collaboration

Helps others with their work.

Meets commitments to team members or others in the organisation.

Actively contributes to team discussions and the accomplishment of team work plans.

Shares expertise and resources to help others address their needs.

Seeks to include all those who can contribute to the most successful outcome and those who have a stake in the results.

Actively keeps all stakeholders informed.

Attempts to reinvigorate team processes when progress is lagging: stays engaged even when not in full agreement with the teams direction.

Accountability

Accomplishes assigned tasks and goals: takes necessary actions to keep progress against objectiveson track and prepares a roadmap for success.

Ensures that all who need to know, are clear about the plan.

Takes full responsibility for own actions and outcomes, including mistakes.

Always acts in the companys best interest, regardless of whether it is difficult or unpopular.

Your areas of responsibility:

• Responsible for operating a forklift to move, locate, relocate, stack and count merchandise.
• Accountable for the safe and efficient operation of the equipment, before, during and after its use as well as keeping the work area clean and free from materials that may prove hazardous.
• Load and offload shipments.
• Moving goods packed on pallets or in crates around the storage facilities.
• Stacking goods in the correct storage bays, following inventory control instructions.

Qualifications and skills we are looking for:

• Minimum National Senior Certificate.
• Must hold a valid forklift operator license from a recognised training provider.
• 1 to 2 years' experience of forklift operation in a manufacturing environment.

These are your benefits:

• Excellent future prospects.
• Market related pay and attractive company benefits.
• Personnel development and training.

Do you have any questions? ZA- will be more than happy to answer them

The main purpose of the job is to load and off load heavy and bulk deliveries/supplies by using a Hyster / Forklift / Sand Loader.

• Operating a Forklift

• Interpreting Invoices

• Maintenance of forklift

• Customer Service

• Goods location, stacking and packing

• To uphold and promote the company values and culture

Grade 12

Valid Forklift Driver's certificate

A minimum of 2 year's forklift driving experience