Despatch Forklift Operator (Indigenous or Female Identified)

About the role

Indigenous Managed Services is seeking a safety-focused Despatch Forklift Operator who is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and/or a woman to support sodium cyanide operations in Kwinana, Western Australia. Working in an industrial environment, you will help ensure products are safely packaged, stored, loaded and despatched while meeting safety, quality and environmental requirements. The position reports to the Operations Team Leader.

Key responsibilities

• Packaging and preparing sodium cyanide products for transport
• Loading liquid sodium cyanide into approved transport vessels and isotainers
• Loading and unloading trucks, containers and transport equipment
• Operating automated packaging, conveying and despatch systems
• Operating forklifts and other mobile plant
• Completing pre-start inspections and basic operator maintenance
• Preparing dangerous goods documentation and despatch paperwork
• Checking product quantities, batch numbers and customer orders
• Completing inventory and stock control activities
• Maintaining housekeeping standards, identifying hazards and reporting equipment defects
• Following permit to work, isolation (LOTO) and site safety procedures
• Participating in emergency response and safety initiatives, and working with production, maintenance and logistics teams

Required profile

• Current High Risk Work Forklift Licence (LF)
• Current Australian driver's licence
• White Card
• Full Australian working rights
• Ideal: experience in manufacturing, chemical processing, mining, logistics or industrial operations, and operating forklifts and mobile plant
• Commitment to workplace safety and environmental compliance, and ability to follow detailed operating procedures
• Availability to work 12-hour shifts on the advertised roster, including rotating shifts if required

What we offer

• 12-hour shifts on a rotating roster: 5 days on, 4 days off, 4 days on, 5 days off
• Day shift pay of $46.56 per hour; night shift pay of $62.63 per hour

The positions are open only to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants and women, as measures intended to achieve equality under sections 31 and 51 of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (WA).