Shunter
🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 13 August 2025
LOCATION
Goole
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Entry-level
CATEGORY
Transportation
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SKILLS
Safety Checks
Two-way Radios
Trailer Movements
Reporting Defects
Fridge Operation
Health & Safety
Vehicle Parking
FULL DESCRIPTION
Summary
To ensure the timely trailer movements, on and off loading bays and where applicable to deliver a shunt load from one location to another, as instructed, in line with Company standards and operational requirements**.
Key Duties of a Shunter:
- To place trailers to the required areas as per instructions
- To use two way radios to keep in contact with areas of the operation as necessary
- To ensure you carry out all safety checks, as designated by the company.
- To ensure that you report defects, accident damage and any incidents as soon as they are found.
- To ensure fridges are set at the correct temperature, in line with loaded product temperature requirements.
- To ensure fridge diesel tanks have adequate fuel at all times.
- To always be professional and courteous when communicating with your colleagues.
- Reporting any breaches in speed limits by drivers and sub contractors to the transport department.
- Keeping vehicle parking area layouts as they should be and reporting any issues of debris to the site services team
- Ensure that company standards of hygiene and housekeeping, in your areas of work, are maintained at all times
- To ensure you are working in line with Health & Safety legislation
# Shunter
Goole, East Riding, United Kingdom, DN14 8GA
Full-time
To ensure the timely trailer movements, on and off loading bays and where applicable to deliver a shunt load from one location to another, as instructed, in line with Company standards and operational requirements**.
Key Duties of a Shunter:
- To place trailers to the required areas as per instructions
- To use two way radios to keep in contact with areas of the operation as necessary
- To ensure you carry out all safety checks, as designated by the company.
- To ensure that you report defects, accident damage and any incidents as soon as they are found.
- To ensure fridges are set at the correct temperature, in line with loaded product temperature requirements.
- To ensure fridge diesel tanks have adequate fuel at all times.
- To always be professional and courteous when communicating with your colleagues.
- Reporting any breaches in speed limits by drivers and sub contractors to the transport department.
- Keeping vehicle parking area layouts as they should be and reporting any issues of debris to the site services team
- Ensure that company standards of hygiene and housekeeping, in your areas of work, are maintained at all times
- To ensure you are working in line with Health & Safety legislation
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