Forklift Driver - Kakamas Dried Fruit Plant-ZAF at PepsiCo

Responsibilities

• Daily inspections of forklift as well as reporting non conformance
• Safe operating of forklift .
• Offloading of Trucks during intake season
• Supply raw material to Production Lines
• Off loading of trucks transporting products to and from depots
• Correct stacking of product
• Ensuring bins coming over rail from production are put in stacks
• Ensuring safe and correct stacking of empty bins
• Making sure bins going into stacks are clean
• Removing of damaged bins out of stacks
• Loading empty bins sent to intake depots
• Weekly Cleaning of forklift
• Drives forklifts to transport products and equipment.
• The Forklift Driver provide raw material to Pre Clean Production.
• Offloading of truck with product from outside depots.
• Offloading of product from suppliers during intake season.
• Stacking of empty bins
• Clearing of empty bins on rail coming from Pre Clean production   

Additional tasks:

• Planning: The Forklift Driver draws up his/her own plan based on information provided by Production Supervisors of both departments.
• The machine’s downtime are measured by Overall Efficiency Effectiveness (OEE) system. The Forklift Driver can influence the OEE of the machines, when he fails to supply raw material on time. The Forklift Driver plan and prioritise the machine supplies as per the production plan.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualification is a grade 12
• A Valid Forklift licence
• Must pass a medical assessment.
• Two year experience as a Forklift Driver