Warehouse Team Member

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. From global icons like Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Tanqueray to Smirnoff and Don Julio, we create brands consumers love. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate and innovate. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function:

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

About the role:

• Perform all job functions safely.

• Must be qualified to possess forklift operator’s license

• While performing the duties of the job, employee will be regularly exposed to work in busy, high traffic areas therefore, employee must be aware of all surroundings.

• Must regularly lift, push or pull up to +50 lbs.

• Regularly exposed to a noisy environment.

• Work in and around machinery, moving vehicles and pedestrians.

• Must wear all required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including hearing protection, safety glasses, safety toed shoes, cut resistant gloves, bump cap or hard hat, hair net, and beard net (if applicable).

Duties include:

• Mopping and Sweeping Floors

• Using stretch wrap to cover pallets that the automatic system failed to cover.

• Picking up cases of product that have fallen off pallets weighing 10lbs to 40 lbs.

• Restacking pallets that driver knocked over.  This could mean restacking 70 cases weighing 40 lbs.

• Setting manual dock plates by pulling on a chain to release spring.  Force necessary to release spring is at least 50 pounds of effort.

• During 12 hour shift drivers require overhead pulling to get on and off lift to do paperwork and talk to truck drivers.  This could be 15 – 20 times / hour.

• Some of our dock doors are manual, a chain is used to lower and raise the large doors.   Force necessary to raise doors is at least 62 pounds of effort. 

• Some of our trailer doors are manual roll up/down doors and require overhead pulling.

• Lifting, moving, adjusting pallets prior to forklift picking them up.

• Moving and dumping garbage and recycle bins.

• Occasionally moving inbound receipt boxes / etc.

Physical Aspects:

Lifting  Minimum: 20 lbs constantly Maximum: 100 lbs* occasionally

Repetitive Motion Frequently manipulating controls on forklift.  Constant entering and exiting forklift

Dexterity Frequent manipulating controls on forklift.  Frequent completion of paperwork

Climbing Minimal

Standing/Sitting  Constant sitting.  Frequent standing.  Occasional bending

Walking Frequent

Pushing Frequent to close overhead dock and trailer door and to operate cleaning equipment.   

Pulling  Constant pulling overhead to get on and off forklift, Frequent pulling overhead to close trailer and dock doors. Frequent pulling to raise dock plates.

Vibration Constant vibration from forklift operation.

Environment: Indoor, outdoor; subject to the following:

Extreme cold, including icy conditions

• Extreme heat and humidity

• Occasional in climate weather

• Noise

• Wet, slippery

* Lifting is performed with assistance of other workers / equipment 

Experience / skills required:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you, s