Logistics Operative in Newcastle upon Tyne

Locations: United Kingdom, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted Today

Time left to apply: End Date: November 25, 2025 (5 days left to apply)

Job Requisition ID: R10080455

JOB SUMMARY: Contribute to the needs of our customers by working with the logistics and distribution team to ensure all manufactured goods are administered, labelled, checked and packed in line with agreed service levels both in the UK and export market. All goods packed to specific customer specifications and clearly communicated to the shipping team to ensure accurate documentation is created for shipping dangerous goods.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Maintaining high company health and safety standards, always ensuring that company rules and guidelines are adhered to.
• Ensuring companies’ quality expectations are met. Striving to meet customers’ demands and giving customers the best experience where possible.
• Working efficiently whilst maintaining health and safety rules plus quality standards, ensuring companies strict production deadlines and delivery targets are met.
• Work with the purchasing clerk to ensure all business-critical materials are stocked correctly for Logistics requirements.
• Record necessary product traceability and daily job count.
• Ensure companies manual handling processes are followed.
• Maintain company housekeeping standards.
• Report any issues regarding safety/quality to the management team.
• Achieve and exceed daily targets and KPI’s set by your line manager.
• The packing of dangerous goods and non-dangerous goods to the exact standards outlined in the work instructions including building pallets.
• Communicate with the shipping department to ensure accurate dangerous goods paperwork is created. Support shipping department with labelling of export boxes when necessary.
• Use Sage system to create delivery notes for UK orders and create manifests at the end of each working day. Use courier online portals to create daily collections.
• Label Non refillable, High pressure and equipment following customer instructions and company work instructions.
• Complete manual processes such as Waterbath, Crimping and tagging for necessary customer orders.
• Liaise with collection drivers to help load/unload parcels safely.

Required Education & Experience:

• Experience working in a warehouse environment.
• Ability to work and communicate with all employees including managers and external visitors, showing respect at all times.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Intermediate computer skills, Google Apps, Microsoft Office.
• Math GCSE C or above (Or equivalent).
• English GCSE D or above (Or equivalent).

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Computer literate with Intermediate knowledge of MS Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint as well as Google applications.
• Ability to define and solve problems dealing with a variety of both abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to work both individually and promote a team environment across departments and shifts, in a fast-paced environment.
• Flexibility with respect to shifts and overtime, with a customer focused approach in order to meet demand.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The characteristics listed below are representative of the physical demands required by an individual to successfully perform the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Employees are regularly required to stand, walk, and sit, use hands and fingers to handle or feel, reach with hands and arms.
• Employees are frequently required to talk and/or hear.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Requires use of computer & telephone.
• Requires heavy lifting and manual handling.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The characteristics listed below are representative of the work environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Must have reliable transportation means to site.
• Role may require to work outdoors.
• Flexibility with respect to shifts and overtime, with a customer focused approach in order to meet demand.
• The role requires shift work on a rolling shift pattern of "Earlies" and "Lates" alternating weeks.
• Role may require to work outdoors.

This job description is not exhaustive and from time to time you may be asked to carry out additional duties.

Benefits: We care about and support all Airgas associates. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays for full-time employees. We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents, offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children. Additionally, we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition for employees’ dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program.

Your DIFFERENCES enhance our PERFORMANCE: At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

About Airgas: Airgas, an Air Liquide company, is a leading U.S. supplier of industrial, medical and specialty gases, as well as hardgoods and related products; one of the largest U.S. suppliers of safety products; and a leading U.S. supplier of ammonia products and process chemicals. Through the passion and diversity of its 18,000 associates, Airgas fosters a culture of safety, customer success, sustainability and innovation. Airgas associates are empowered to share ideas, take initiative and make decisions. Airgas is a subsidiary of Air Liquide, a world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and healthcare. Present in 60 countries with approximately 66,500 employees, Air Liquide serves more than 4 million customers and patients.

Join us for a stimulating experience: At Airgas, you matter and so does the work you do. As a member of our team, you play an important role in the success of your team, making sure our products are created sustainably and delivered safely and efficiently. In turn, you’ll find a welcoming workplace where you’re valued for who you are and where you can fill your potential while growing a fulfilling career — whatever path you choose.