Stores Assistant

Based in Leeds, we are seeking someone to join our Flow & Water Quality Monitoring team, supporting both Flow and Water Quality Monitoring and Land and Utility Surveying operations. You will ensure all equipment is stored, maintained, and available as required, whilst being responsible for warehouse management, equipment tracking, and goods receipt and dispatch. The position offers the opportunity to support critical development projects within a company that values precision, safety, and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Issuing surveying equipment and consumables to field teams as required
• Scanning equipment in and out of relevant systems to maintain accurate location tracking
• Receiving and processing incoming goods and materials both physically and onto relevant systems
• Maintaining and issuing PPE and work clothes to surveyors and field crews
• Picking required equipment and consumables based on field team requests and preparing them for collection
• Checking all deliveries against documentation and ensuring safe storage
• Carrying out equipment movement between buildings (batteries, surveying equipment)
• Packaging and dispatching customer orders according to requirements
• Performing general warehouse housekeeping to ensure clean, tidy, and hazard‑free environment
• Assisting with stock control processes including weekly, monthly, and annual stock counts
• Supporting facilities management including forklift operation and small building maintenance tasks
• Assisting with waste management duties and fleet vehicle management checks

Key Requirements

• Ability to carry out manual handling activities safely and effectively
• Strong attention to detail and ability to produce accurate work
• IT skills including proficiency in Outlook and Excel
• \”Can do\” attitude with willingness to work collaboratively to support operational teams
• Customer‑focused approach to service delivery
• Strong teamwork ethic and flexibility in approach
• Good communication skills
• Commitment to compliance with all health and safety requirements and company procedures
• Valid clean UK manual driving licence

Desirable

• Previous logistics/stores/warehouse experience
• Previous experience using stock control systems
• Counterbalance forklift truck licence

Travel & Flexibility

This role is based from our Northern office in Leeds, but you will be expected to visit our offices in Altrincham, Sevenoaks and Coventry on occasion. Candidates must be open to working away from home during the week and accommodate night or evening shifts as needed.

About SOCOTEC Flow & Water Quality Monitoring

We provide market leading environmental data collection and monitoring services. Established over 30 years ago, Flow & Water Quality Monitoring gives their clients peace of mind in supporting them to reduce environmental risks and improving the quality of their natural environment. Our customers include large blue‑chip consultancies and water companies. We are an ambitious team who are focused on growth, putting our customers at the heart of what we do, and we live our values of happy people, happy customers, working safely and being successful. Our culture is can‑do, fun and where everyone has a part to play and a voice.

Salary & Benefits

As well as a salary of £26,208 per year depending on experience, which can increase as you develop and grow in the role, we can offer you a wide range of benefits including 25 days holiday with the opportunity to buy more, an electric car scheme (where applicable), employee recognition schemes, family friendly support, employee benefits and discounts app, employee assistance programmes, and enhanced company pension.

SOCOTEC UK are proud to be Disability Confident accredited.

Why SOCOTEC?

Here at SOCOTEC UK, we have over 2,000 colleagues across our divisions delivering world‑class services to our customers. We have several business streams that provides an unrivalled range of testing, inspection, and certification and advisory services throughout the UK, and we deliver excellence to our customers by recruiting and retaining the very best industry talent. At SOCOTEC, we believe that a driven, inspired and challenged team is the key to success. We promote inclusivity, encourage individuality and have a zero‑tolerance policy to discrimination, with the aim that every single member of our team will thrive both in and out of the workplace. We invest in our people. We push you to grow and we want you to progress. We believe in continued development and the pursuit of ambition. Our open and friendly office space promotes a culture of teamwork and provides the opportunity to ask, listen and learn from those around you. With a young, dynamic and exciting workplace, we are constantly striving, as a team, to develop and succeed.

Think you’ve got what it takes to add value to our success? We would love to hear from you and look forward to receiving your application.

Building a safer and more sustainable world is the core mission we set out to achieve at SOCOTEC, it is at the heart of everything that we do. We are committed to acting as a key player in society, investing in innovative solutions to ensure social and environmental concerns are at the forefront of all of our business operations.