Forklift Driver - Bournemouth
Cavanna Sites across the South West
About Us
With a rich history dating back to 1923, Cavanna Homes is the South West’s largest independent house builder. We are family-owned and construct beautiful new homes that customers love.
We are now looking for a Forklift Driver to join us on a full-time, permanent basis, working 40 hours per week.
The Benefits- Competitive salary
- 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays, additional holidays awarded for length of service
- Holiday purchase scheme – purchase up to an additional week of holiday
- 6% employer pension contributions
- Private healthcare for yourself and family
- Medicash health cashback scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Early Friday finishes
- Regular social events
- Life assurance (3x annual salary)
- Cycle to work scheme up to the value of £3,500
- Discount on purchase of a Cavanna Home
This is a fantastic opportunity for a construction professional with marshall or banksman training and a CPCS or NPORS Red Card to join our forward-thinking, family-owned company.
We will provide you with outstanding training and tailor-made career development initiatives, designed to help you build your skills and advance your career with confidence.
What’s more, you will work with state-of-the-art plant equipment, ensuring you work with the best tools available to deliver high-quality results.
So, if you’re looking for an opportunity to grow with a trusted name in house building, read on and apply today!
The Role
As a Forklift Driver, you will assist with the successful delivery of construction projects, maintaining high standards of quality and safety in all work undertaken.
You’ll support site management and project teams in a variety of tasks, from plant operation and traffic management, to maintaining cleanliness and ensuring the security of company assets.
Additionally, you will:
- Operate and maintain plant equipment
- Assist colleagues and sub-contractors to work effectively
- Respond to customer queries and escalate where necessary
Please note, this role involves lifting heavy objects.
About You
To be considered as a Forklift Driver, you will need:
- Experience in the construction industry
- Experience in a similar role
- To be alert and safety-conscious when operating equipment
- Basic mechanical skills to service and maintain equipment
- CPCS and/or NPORS Red Card
- Suspended Loads Training
- Vehicle Marshal and/or Banksman Training
- Manual Handling Certification
- NVQ Level 2
The closing date for this role is 20th of January 2025.
Other organisations may call this role Plant Operator, Forklift Operator, Construction Equipment Operator, Material Handling Operator, Site Logistics Driver, Plant Machinery Operator, Warehouse Forklift Operator, Load and Transport Operator, Heavy Equipment Driver, or Forklift Operations Assistant.
Webrecruit and Cavanna Homes are equal opportunities employers, value diversity, and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business, and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
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