Forklift Driver (Backshift – 4 day working week)
| Posting date: | 03 September 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 October 2025 |
| Location: | Westhill, AB32 6FY |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | HIJOBS |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 365723 |
Summary
Please note that this is a backshift over 4 working days a week.
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.
Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment, and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.
Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.
In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.
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 Manager, 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.
Your skills
We’ll train you with your own growth plan so you’re ready for the next steps in your career. If you have a passion for doing things well, are happy to work on your own and as part of a team, you get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, this could be the role for you.
You will need:
A current Forklift Truck Licence (Combi-lift conversion training available if needed).
Ability to organise and manage loading information.
Basic computer skills, with experience in stock control systems preferred.
Our culture is friendly, open, and welcoming, so if that working environment sounds good, please get in touch. If this sounds like the right step for your career, please click here to apply and find out more.
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.