From receipt of goods to order preparation, Steven Malle handles pallets, forklifts, packaging and slips.
A skull cap screwed on the skull, retro reflective clothing, gloves and protective shoes. Steven Malle, 26, is one of those men in orange who crisscross the lines of pallets at the back of the store. At the agency Point. P Caen (Calvados), they are six store-car drivers out of eighteen employees. The company specializes in the trading of building materials and decoration.
"After the 3rd and a CAP remover, I worked three years in the factory to unload trucks," says Steven. I dreamed of driving a trolley, so I spent a CAP Storage Agent and courier at AFT-Iftim (today Aftral) in Caen. He does an internship at Point. P Bayeux, returned to interim six months in Bayeux and a month in Caen. In February 2016, he signed a CDI store-driver. Goal achieved.
"Skillful and vigilant"
All day, Steven works at the reception and the exit of the products. "I get trucks of materials arriving at the store. I unload, control delivery, condition and store each item in its deposit area. Before you go the other way, with a purchase order. "I will pick up the ordered items, prepare the pallets, pack and load the customer's truck. In between entries and exits, Steven proceeds with the inventory and "zoning": each product is listed in the warehouse and in the point-of-sale computer system.
To transport these heavy and sometimes fragile materials, Steven learned to fly a forklift . "I passed the driver's license, or Caces (Certificate of Fitness to Safe Driving) in categories 3 and 5. The first at school and the second with the company. In the yard, the fast ballet of these small machines, which weigh up to 3.5 tons, is impressive. "You have to be clever and vigilant," says Steven.
It remains in spite of everything a lot of manual handling, hardly relieved by the devils and trolleys of supermarket. "In this business, you have to wear," says the rugby-rugged young man. The training "gestures and postures", to spare the body, is also one of the first provided by Point. P to his new employees. In a few years, Steven would like to evolve as a "chef de cour" to manage the team of storekeepers. And if the activity becomes too trying, go behind the counter.
How to become a storekeeper?
After the 3rd class, you can prepare a CAP operator-logistics operator. The training brings the first skills in logistics: receiving goods, handling, storage, order picking, checking the quality of products ... The use of logistics IT tools is also part of the training and driving forklifts .
The CAP Warehousing and Messaging Agent and the CAP Salesman-Storekeeper in automotive spare parts and equipment also make it possible to become an order picker.
Prepared directly after the 3rd or after a CAP, the logistic pro bac, meanwhile, provides skills in management and monitoring of goods flows further. It is thus possible to access the profession but also to evolve more easily subsequently to team management functions.
The CAP and the professional baccalaureate allow to be exempted of the Caces (certificates of aptitude to the safe driving), categories 1, 3 and 5, during five years. The possession of Caces, essential in this trade, gives the right to drive pallet trucks and forklifts.
Cost of studies : free in public high school, from € 300 to € 1,300 per year in private high school; paid in apprenticeship.
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