Warehouse Professional, 12 month FTC - Wakefield

Warehouse Professional, Wakefield 12 month FTC 3 on 3 off Days and Nights Salary circa £49k Structured Career Development + Annual performance related pay bonus + Share scheme + Competitive pension contributions + Laundered uniform and all safety equipment provided + Range of flexible benefits and Corporate discounts + Free parking + Overtime available + Free hot and cold drinks and subsidised canteen + Excellent parental benefits + Flexible working.

What you become part of:

Wakefield Distribution Centre is a 24/7 operation, our Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) warehouse holds 28,000 pallets, alongside a racked and block-stacked conventional warehouse of 12,000 pallets. The combined typical annual throughput is over three million pallets. Every 24 hours we expect to receive around 5,000 pallets from the on-site manufacturing operation, as well as handling around 360 vehicle movements at peak.

What to expect:

As a Warehouse professional you will work as one of four team leads (Conventional / ASRS / Office / Midbulk). Reporting to the Senior Warehouse Professional on shift, you will be accountable for a variety of business metrics including cost and service, as well as an expectation for delivering a year-on-year improvement in these areas and others.

Your core responsibilities:

• Safety: You will operate within a H&S management system and collaborate with a Team of representatives. You will be responsible for developing Lead indicators and Reporting / Resolving Lag indicators to advance the health and safety culture.
• People: You will support your team (approximately 10 – 15 operators) to grow and develop by engaging them with our performance management processes and successfully develop the pipeline talent of the future. You’ll inspire your team to follow operational processes, maintain stock accuracy, load/unload vehicles promptly and coach them in developmental areas. You will maintain high standards of customer service, for internal customers (e.g., factory) and external customers (e.g., retailers) and communicate these values to your team.
• Operational: You will lead as a Warehouse professional, working directly with Warehouse Technician operatives. FLT training given to support the operation. General warehouse duties / Housekeeping. Directly managing the wider team on your shift. You will manage and direct the skills across shifts to ensure customer targets are met. There will be a continued focus on Safety and Continuous Improvement by sharing Best Practice with other team members, colleagues, and national contacts.

Skills & Prerequisites:

Essentials:

• Excellent communication, Organisation and influencing skills
• Previous record of Process Compliance
• Ability to understand change management and able to identify changes and focus areas for your team
• Willing to accept responsibility for long term, sustained performance improvement
• Ability to work under pressure whilst managing multiple timed targets simultaneously
• Working on shifts, you will take a flexible and co-operative approach to changes in the rota to meet the needs of our business

Desirable but not essential:

• Knowledge and understanding of SAP or working with other Warehouse Management System
• Previous Warehouse or People management experience
• Previous experience operating FLT/or shunting.

The closing date for applications is 24/06/25. We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of applications. To ensure you are considered for this role, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks. We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.

From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth.

To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform.

We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.