Department/Section: Production
Salary range: £9.00 - £12.50 per hour (depending on experience)
Place of work: Tonbridge
Reporting to: Production Manager
Forklift Operator for Immediate Start - Must have up to date Reach Truck and Counter Balance licences.
About Us
Atom Brands is the product development and manufacturing business unit within Atom Group which also includes Maverick Drinks (UK distribution) and Master of Malt (global online retail). Our brands include Ableforth’s (Bathtub Gin), That Boutique-y Spirits Co, The Blended Whisky Co, Origin Single Botanical Gin, The Handmade Cocktail Co, 1897 Quinine Gin and Darkness!
In the last 5 years, our brands have won dozens of global awards (World’s Best - Blended Whisky, Blended Malt, Grain Whisky, Liqueur, Gin, Spiced Rum & Pre-mixed Cocktail - many on multiple occasions) regularly triumphing in blind tastings against some of the world’s largest and longest-established products from businesses three orders of magnitude larger than ours. This speaks to our no-compromise approach to creation and crafting. We make the best - we don’t work backwards from price-points or seek to ‘fill gaps’.
Job purpose
To drive forklift truck to assist with loading and unloading vehicles and the movement of drinks stock; work as part of a team to assist in the goods in and dispatch areas as needed
Essentials of the job
- Load and unload vehicles with drinks stock, ensuring that boxes and pallets are adequately secured and transported with care
- Work with the goods in team to verify identity of goods in and ensure they are transported to the right area of the warehouse, are labelled correctly, and logged on our electronic system
- Ensure that goods for dispatch are correctly labelled, and loaded safely and carefully onto the correct vehicle
- Move drinks stock within the warehouse storage aisles as required
- Assist the production team in picking and packing goods when time and priorities allow
- Prepare finished goods for shipping
- Comply with all PPE requirements, health and safety regulations, and with facility processes and procedures
- Carry out daily checks on the forklift and use it safely
Experience, skills and qualifications
- Experience of forklift driving in a busy warehouse
- Some experience of working in goods in and picking and packing orders for dispatch
- Ability to put things in order
- Strong awareness of health and safety regulations, including the safe use of forklifts
- Good level of English
- Good general IT skills, including data entry and email
- Current, valid counterbalance and Reach Truck forklift licenc
About you
- Great eye for accuracy and attention to detail
- Positive, helpful and enthusiastic
- Can do attitude
- Strong team player
Why work for us?
Other than the standard benefits you expect to see from a business (think pension, cycle-2-work scheme, free eye care vouchers, childcare vouchers) we also offer…
- Flexible working We’re focused on productivity and will work with you to make sure you’re happy with how you work.
- Free food A hungry worker is not a happy worker. We stock our kitchens with what you need to get you through the day.
- Free fancy coffee George Clooney endorsed, no less...
- A relaxed working environment There are no suits and ties here (unless you insist).
- A challenge The opportunity to make a difference to the future of the business. It is our people who put us in the 2017 Sunday Times Fast Track 100.
- Personal Days Seven completely flexible personal days on top of your annual leave, because we all need a duvet day from time to time.
- A healthy staff discount on our world-class range. Just in case that makes a difference.
- (Un)healthy irreverence National pizza/doughnut/pie/lemonade/etc day? We got it covered