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Benefits:
- Living Wage Employer: We are committed to paying their staff a fair wage.
- Environmental Initiatives: Employees carbon emissions are offset through a partnership with Ecology, and trees are planted for every pallet sent.
- Company Events: Regular events to foster team spirit and engagement.
- Pension Scheme: A company pension plan to help secure your future.
- Discounts: Employee discounts on their range of fine food products.
- Free Parking: On-site parking available to all employees
As the Senior Warehouse Operative, the expectation is that this role is very much a number 2 to the warehouse manager, meaning that day to day operational tasks, outlined below, are the entry point with additional expectations such as, but not limited to, being:
- Help build and develop the team and processes to drive maximum productivity and efficiency
- Lead projects to build ongoing operational improvements
- Be a champion of Health and Food Safety daily
- Support and assist the warehouse manager becoming fully aware of how the operation works end to end process, so able to take the lead in their absence
Key Responsibilities:
- Picking Orders: Picking Customer Orders using a HHT device accurately onto a pallet ready for dispatch.
- Goods In: Receiving deliveries & recording on a shared document. Booking this stock onto our ERP logging important information such as BBE & Batch Codes.
- Packing Orders: prepare the orders for dispatch. This is either safely stacked on a pallet or wrapped well into boxes for courier deliveries.
- Wrapping Pallets: Securely wrap the pallets with shrink wrap, ensure the whole pallet is covered, tight & safe for transit.
- Daily Running of the Warehouse: In the absence of the Warehouse Manager, the Senior Operative will perform the following tasks: Allocating Orders, Prioritising Stock to be booked in, Checking of Orders, Dispatching Orders.
- Loading/Unloading of pallets from delivery vehicles: Using the forklift, you will unload deliveries throughout the day & assist in loading the lorry with outbound deliveries.
- Delivery Driving: In the absence of our regular delivery driver, you will be required to make deliveries using our Electric Van.
Qualifications:
- Experience:?Previous experience in a Warehouse environment is essential with some experience of leadership skills desirable. We are willing to consider anyone who is aspiring towards leadership & we will review all candidates with the right attitude.
- Skills:
- Must be forklift qualified
- Willing to drive the delivery van
- Strong organizational and multitasking abilities.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
