5 Logistics / Distribution jobs in Wantage, Oxfordshire

A bit about the role

As a Forklift truck driver, you’ll be an important member of the manufacturing team, responsible for the safe and efficient movement of materials within our factory and yard.

Reporting to the Logistics Coordinator, you’ll play a key role in organising and carrying out material movements to meet safety, quality, and productivity standards. You’ll check and record dispatch information for stock systems accurately and support improvements in the way we do things.

Health and safety is important to us so we’ll always ask you to report any health and safety issues or material or equipment concerns,

A bit about us

Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited, and sustainable.

We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.

Join us on our ambitious journey.

The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need Forklift Truck Drivers within our Witney, Oxfordshire factory, to help us to grow further.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.

We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career with the UK’s leading timber frame manufacturer. This full-time role is 40 hours per week Monday to Friday, based at our offices in Witney Oxfordshire with flexibility up to 46 hours in busy periods.

You’ll have 32 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.