Kitchen Hand Jobs in New Zealand

Join the hardworking and fun team at PlaceMakers Queenstown and help us to provide exceptional customer services. We have an exciting role which has opened in our Queenstown yard & drive thru team. The role is in customer service as one of the senior powered lifting operators (forklift or combilift). The role is based in a busy department that handles multiple functions of the business.

• Operating a forklift on a technically challenging site, while strictly adhering to health and safety policies and procedures
• Customer service & sales (mostly B2B)
• Order make-up
• Re-stocking and organize stock holdings
• Retrieval of stock for order make up
• Daily use of a forklift or combilift to unload supplier trucks and load customer vehicle
• Picking orders for delivery or collection

About you:
You will be joining a market-leading organisation where your role is not just about service but about building relationships and providing solutions to our customers! With your hard work and our support, we can help you to build a career! To be successful you will be able to build and maintain effective relationships with customers by being solutions focused. As a people person you will thrive on building rapport with the team and our customers. We are a close-knit supportive team that is looking forward to growth.

• Must have exceptional customer services skills
• Must have full clean class 1 driver licence (or higher)
• Previous forklift experience is essential (this is a technically challenging forklift site)
• Must be fit and healthy: Role is physically demanding and requires frequent heavy lifting
• Motivated, self-driven and able to work independently
• Organizational skills - Proactive and able to think on your feet and under pressure
• Must have a strong health and safety focus. Safety is a core value for our company, so it is essential that you take safety seriously and have the drive to use safe practices within the workplace.

Our Benefits:

• Monday to Friday role where you get to enjoy all of what beautiful Queenstown has to offer in your weekends
• Competitive hourly rate & Staff-buying privileges
• Genuine development opportunities that come with being part of the wider Fletcher Building Group
• Employment Education Fund
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Joining an inclusive and diverse team and company

Join Us: We value diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds. Research shows that females and minority groups don’t always apply for roles unless they match 100% of the requirements. If this role interests you but you feel you don’t quite fit, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are proud of our diversity and see it as one of the things that make us better together.

Pre-employment checks including references, medical, drug test and a Criminal background check is required as well as the legal right to work in NZ indefinitely.

We are proud of the incredible diversity of people who make up our business! As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we strive to create an inclusive environment for all our employees across our national network of branches throughout New Zealand.