AddressSoft Landing is a national social enterprise operating across NSW, ACT, VIC and WA. We divert end of life mattresses from landfill and recovery components to recycle. For every 45 mattresses that we collect and recycle each day, we can create a job for someone who really needs it. Soft Landing currently employees 150 staff.
Soft Landing, located in Wangara provides mattress and whitegoods collection and recycling services across the Perth region. As demand for our service continues to grow, we require a Forklift Driver / General Hand to meet demand.
The Forklift Driver / General Hand role at Soft Landing includes:
- Competently operating forklift across unloading and loading activities, managing bulk movement of mattresses and processed materials on site.
- Manual processing of mattresses and bed bases (this involves cutting away the material from the shell of the unit and separating components that may include latex, foam, husk, steel and timber)
- Riding as offsider on collection runs including loading and unloading of mattresses with attention to safe manual handling
- Preparing separated components for baling or waste disposal
- Correct use and attention to PPE
- Maintaining a tidy and clean working area
- Assisting with balers and presses
- General facility manual tasks including unloading and stacking of mattresses and other recyclable items
Requirements:
- Forklift licence
- Able to demonstrate and maintain good working relationships with supervisors and fellow workers, including people from different backgrounds and cultures
- Good physical fitness is required, along with flexibility and a sense of pride in what and how you work
- Reliable, motivated and have a good work ethic
- Willing to learn and train in all aspects of what we do
- Able to work independently and as a team player to achieve and maintain daily processing targets.
Casual role or full-time role available. The casual rate of pay is $34.53 per hour, inclusive of loading + super (Waste Management Award Level 3). Full-time permanent rate is $27.62 per hour plus super. Hours of work are Monday to Friday between 6.00am and 2.00pm or 2.30pm to 10.30pm. As a not-for-profit organisation we offer salary packaging, which means you can significantly increase your take-home pay.
We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with different abilities, and people re-entering the workforce.
Find out more about us by visiting www.communityresources.org.au
Interviews for these positions will commence immediately.
Please click on 'apply' and forward your resume for consideration.
