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Forklift Operator

Erskine Park, New South Wales 2759, Australia • Full-time
AI Job Summary
  • Experience unloading and loading trailers/rigid trucks using a counterbalance forklift.
  • Experience with Mez floors and securing freight with gates, straps and angles.
  • Experience using RF scanning equipment for freight/shipment tasks.

Role Type

On-site • Permanent • Full-time • Entry Level

Description

About the business and the role

Bluestar Global Logistics is an Australian owned National Company specialising in express interstate/intrastate transport, warehousing and global distribution. Our ethos of Integrity, Honesty and Trust shape our decisions and dictate the relationships we have with our customers.

We are seeking full-time forklift operators with loading experience to work on the afternoon shift

of our transport department at our Erskine Park, NSW site.

Job tasks and responsibilities

Your roles will include:

  • Operating a forklift to move, unload, load, or put away freight.
  • Ensure shipments are accurate, free of damage, and labelled clearly.
  • Efficiently and securely stack and store products in appropriate areas.
  • Maintain the facility’s equipment and materials in a neat, clean, and orderly fashion.
  • Operate all equipment in a safe and efficient manner following prescribed work methods.
  • Manual Handling duties
  • Operating a counterbalance forklift – unloading, loading trailers and rigid trucks.
  • Experience with Mez floors
  • Use of restraints – gates, straps and angles
  • Accuracy of weight distribution when loading
  • Understanding the loading and unloading processes
  • Manual Handling Duties – Includes Sortation of cartons/parcels
  • RF scanning
  • Being able to work unsupervised and as a team
  • CoR understanding

Skills and experience

  • Candidates must be experienced in the operation of forklifts, with truck loading experience. 
  • Candidates must have a relevant forklift license.
  • You must be literate and numerate with some basic computer skills.
  • Knowledge of local and regional NSW areas 
  • Basic Knowledge of interstate locations