Christopher Heyes

Planning deliveries of construction materials while overseeing operations, supervising drivers and warehouse staff, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and customer satisfaction. Coordinating with internal teams, customers, and external transport providers to ensure on-time delivery and optimal resource utilization

• Conducting driver inductions and enforcing site safety rules
• Reporting and investigating incidents through work health and safety management system
• Creating paperwork and keeping records crucial to transport safety and regulatory compliance

Achievements

• Led initiatives to decrease site entry congestion and associated risks
• Invited to attend safety committee meetings and mentored by WHS leaders
• Gained a thorough understanding of the systems and processes used to ensure work place health and safety in a busy distribution centre

• Received, inspected and stored inbound freight in line with strict protocols for inputs in pharmaceutical products
• Part of a team responsible for the manufacture of the COVID vaccine Aztra-Zeneca
• Gained experience handling and storing dangerous goods such as chemicals used to clean medical devices

Setback

• Involved in a serious forklift incident resulting in the immediate termination of my contract
• This incident has sparked a passion in work place health and safety and given me lived experienced in how easily things can go wrong

• Reorganised inventory management systems ensuring greater efficiency and accuracy
• Trained new staff members
• Regularly given the responsibility to manage the warehouse for extended periods

Achievements

• Received bonuses for excellent results at stocktakes

• Picked stock according to order sheets and prepared for transport.
• Operated equipment such as hand trucks, pallet jacks and forklifts on daily basis.
• Restocked shelves and helped customers locate desired items.
• Received and checked incoming goods for damage and discrepancies with paperwork.