Forklift Driver at HomeChoice Holdings Limited

Job Description

• homechoice is a leading South African homeware retailer. For 40 years we’ve helped our customers create beautiful homes they love with an innovative range of quality products they can afford.
• The forklift Driver woll be responsible to facilitate operations through the accurate and timely execution of tasks within the warehouse environment as assigned by your relevant supervisor/team leader.

What you will love doing in this role

Receiving: 

• Ensure pallets are loaded in a safe, secure manner and there is compliance to stock  / pallet storage instructions.
• Offloading and loading of all adhoc vehicles in the yard.
• Maintaining a high standard of housekeeping in the yard by ensuring that all pallets are separated according to "good' and "bad" and that they are stacked and stored safely.
• Advise housekeeping problems in a timely manner to ensure that the housekeeping standards are maintained.
• Offloading of inbounds, palletizing of inbounds, counting and labelling of inbounds, wrapping of pallets, Movement of palletized stock from receiving bays to staging areas.

Inventory:

• Accurate execution of tasks as instructed by scanners. These will typically include the following (but not limited to) - Bin to bin movements, stock consolidation tasks, RBT’s, cycle counts etc by the scanner/system.

Picking:

• Accurate picking of any and of all types of orders.(internal and external)
• Decanting of no stocks to original picking bin.

Conveyor Work:

• This is includes working on any of the conveyors and or machinery on the conveyor system to support the departmental KPI’s to support our customers experience.

Packing:

• Packing of internal and or external orders to within the departmental KPI’s to support our customer experience.

Distribution:

• This will include tasks such as loading, offloading & scanning of stock and or customer orders.

Adhoc Task:

• Supporting DC activity for any / all ad hoc work tasks that are required to be executed.
• These can include but are not limited to building combos, breaking combos, labelling, rebooting, cleaning, fixing pallets etc. 
• Performance in line with departmental goals, targets, standards and UPM.

Housekeeping

• Ensure that your area of responsibility is clean, neat and tidy at all times in accordance with the standard. 
• It will be your responsibility to identify if any of your allocated equipment (tools) is faulty to ensure you receive a replacement.
• It is also your responsibility to ensure that you look after your allocated equipment (tools).
• Ensures that all equipment in your area of responsibility is kept clean and in good working condition throughout your shift.
• Ensure daily check sheets are completed and filed before / after using it and that it’s handed in at your Supervisor.

Health and Safety

• Play an active role on the Health and Safety committee as a Section 8 appointee.
• Champion and enforce health and safety practices as per the DC safety

What you’ll need to do this role

• Grade 12/Matric/NQF 4
• Forklift license
• 1 - 5 Year reach truck or equivalent experience
• Must possess a current certificate or license

What we will love about you

• Good numeracy and literacy skills
• Ability to work well under pressure
• High attention to detail and level of accuracy
• Strong team player with the ability to drive change positively
• Relentless drive to meet deadlines and customer demands

Behaviors we love

Wow my customer

• Walk in my customers’ shoes
• Deliver on my promises
• Deliver insight-led solutions my customers need

Treat the business as my own

• Take accountability
• Be curious, creative & explore opportunities
• Do it right & at the right time

Play as a team

• Be helpful
• Be inclusive
• Find the fun