At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a dynamic team as a Warehouse Operative, loading and unloading goods efficiently.
- Company: Leading food manufacturing company in Leicestershire with a strong focus on teamwork.
- Benefits: Earn competitive pay, with a £2ph uplift after forklift training and overtime opportunities.
- Other info: Flexible shifts available, Monday to Friday, with a clean and organised work environment.
- Why this job: Be part of a vital process that keeps production running smoothly and meets transport deadlines.
- Qualifications: Previous warehouse experience and good communication skills are essential; forklift experience preferred.
The predicted salary is between 11.7 - 14.3 £ per hour.
Thorn Baker Industrial Recruitment are looking for an experienced Warehouse Operative that ideally has Forklift experience to join a leading food manufacturing company based in Leicestershire. This role will be working directly with our client on a temp to perm contract.
The Job: Working as a Warehouse Operative, you will be responsible for the fluid movement of goods ensuring that all bakeries are supplied with raw materials in a timely manner to ensure that production is not halted, unloading of raw materials before putting stock into the correct areas, loading of finished goods onto lorries in a timely manner to ensure transport deadlines are met.
Core Tasks are:
- Loading & Unloading: Efficiently unload incoming deliveries from lorries and load outgoing wagons/lorries.
- Timed Dispatches: Prioritise and execute the loading of wagons at specific scheduled times to ensure transport deadlines are met.
- Stock Replenishment: Proactively move stock from bulk storage to active production areas in a timely manner to ensure production has no delays whilst ensuring stock rotation is adhered to.
- Processing of Incoming Goods: Check and record key details such as received date, temperature and use by date before carefully putting away deliveries into designated storage areas.
- Inventory Accuracy: Use warehouse management systems (or manual logs) to ensure all stock movements are recorded correctly.
Collaboration: Communicating with production team leaders to establish replenishment levels and finished products to be loaded daily, while reporting into warehouse team leader.
Data/Reporting: FLT check sheets to be completed daily, warehouse cleaning sheets to be checked daily, delivery/dispatch notes to be checked and signed off daily.
Clean As We Go: Ensuring we operate a clean as we go mindset by clearing empty pallets and rubbish in both the stock and production warehouses and labelling and putting stock in the correct location in a timely manner, keeping all yards clear and organised.
Carry out any reasonable request made of you by your manager.
There are 2 shifts available based on where needed:
- Monday to Friday 6am-3pm
- Monday to Friday 8am-5pm
Both are 40 hours per week with overtime available when production is very busy and applies after 40 hours. You will start on National Living Wage but once trained to use forklift, you will receive an uplift in hourly salary of £2ph.
The person:
- Previous warehouse experience - ideally experience operating a Counterbalance forklift truck
- Stock counting experience
- Good communication skills
- Have access to transport as there are no public transport for the early shift start times
Warehouse Operative (Forklift preferred) in Fleckney employer: Thorn Baker Recruitment Ltd
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Contact Details:
Thorn Baker Recruitment Ltd Recruitment Team
