Your Company:An excellent opportunity has become available within a manufacturing business, who are searching for an experienced Warehouse Operative with a B1 Forklift License to join their team in the Basingstoke area. The organisation has decades of experience within their sector, and cover both the sale and rental market for their manufacturing products, enabling them to have coverage across the sector and build a dynamic customer base with varying needs. This position will play a key role in the daily operations of the business, ensuring that the business is able to fulfil orders, that stock is accounted for and placed in the correct locations and that the correct documentation is at hand when needed. This role will enable the business to continue its successes in delivering excellent products to their customers in a timely and professional manner.The business is keen to fill this role ASAP and therefore, applicants should ideally be IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE where possible, or at least possess a short notice period.Your Roles and Responsibilities:

Picking & packing small and large part orders throughout the day, as they come into the warehouse, processing the orders for shipment in the UK and abroad.
Operating counterbalance forklifts, including conducting daily pre-checks and moving, loading or unloading heavy cargo which may include air conditioning units.
Utilising other equipment on site, including straps, jacks, slings, pallet trucks and skates in a safe manner than adheres to guidelines.
Checking deliveries that arrive to the warehouse, ensuring stock levels are correct, conducting stock checks and replenishments and checking that stock is put away safely into its correction location.
Updating the company system with deliveries in and supporting with transport bookings.
Preparing large parts pallet orders for shipping in a timely manner.
Ensuring that shipping documents are signed and checked to promote accurate record keeping.
Checking over returned parts and stock, conducting a visual inspection and checklist of items, ensuring all returns documentation is correct and present and putting stock away where needed.
Supporting the managers to ensure the smooth running of the warehouse, including general housekeeping to ensure a tidy and safe work area.
Washing and cleaning equipment and tools including 5m flexible hoses and buffer tanks that are in the yard.
Acting as the banksman for the yard for both FLTs and HGVs.
Providing support to the rental team and the technicians as they need it.

What you will need to Apply:The ideal candidate for this role will have previous experience in a warehouse setting, handling stock movement and order packing and must be from a manufacturing environment, preferably in the HVAC sector. It is non-negotiable and an absolute MUST that all applicants possess a B1 Forklift License and preferably a B2 as well. Much of the scope of the role will be taught with comprehensive training. You will need good communication skills and excellent time management abilities. This role will involve heavy lifting and so applicants must be aware and accepting of this.Possession of a B1 Forklift License is essential to this role, so please note that any applicant who does not possess this, CAN NOT be considered for this role. What you will get in Return:For the successful candidate a starting salary of potentially up to £30,000, depending on previous experience is available, and this will accompany a package that includes excellent holiday and pension contributions, the option to earn bonus and access to additional monetary incentives and perks. The company have also stated that there will be plenty of options for overtime and further earnings.As well as this core package, the company will fully support the successful applicant within their future endeavours and career, ensuring that they are in the best position possible to meet and exceed targets and KPIs, and to further develop their skills and abilities in order to take on more responsibility. This in turn will lead to internal opportunities being presented for the candidate to progress through their career and at the very least the candidate will gain exceptional transferable skills, experience and industry exposure, working for one of the leading companies in the industry. If this excellent opportunity interests you, then please don't hesitate to apply today!

Warehouse Operative