Location: St Ives
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Join Our Team
Are you an experienced Yard or Warehouse Operative looking for your next opportunity? We are seeking a reliable and proactive Advanced Yard Operative to join our busy operations team in St Ives.
This hands-on role is ideal for someone with warehouse or yard experience who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment. You'll play a key part in ensuring equipment and materials are received, maintained, prepared, and dispatched efficiently while maintaining the highest standards of safety and housekeeping.
A valid Forklift Licence is essential for this position.
Key Responsibilities
As an Advanced Yard Operative, your duties will include:
- Receiving and checking stock deliveries against delivery notes
- Sorting equipment and materials into component parts and storing them correctly
- Reporting damaged, missing, or faulty items
- Preparing, dismantling, and assembling equipment ready for dispatch
- Carrying out basic maintenance tasks including cleaning, painting, sanding, and minor repairs
- Completing pick sheets, job sheets, and stock checks accurately
- Assisting with stock counting and inventory management
- Loading and unloading vehicles when required
- Supporting the picking and packing of customer orders
- Maintaining excellent housekeeping standards throughout the warehouse, yard, and communal areas
- Following all health and safety procedures and wearing required PPE
- Supporting different departments as business needs require
About You
We're looking for someone who has:
Essential
- Previous warehouse, yard, logistics, or operational experience
- Valid Counterbalance Forklift Licence
- Good literacy and numeracy skills
- Strong understanding of health and safety practices
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Good attention to detail and organisational skills
- Reliable, hardworking, and willing to learn
Desirable
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Experience with stock control and inventory management
- Experience in goods-in, goods-out, or distribution operations
This is an active role involving:
- Manual handling activities
- Lifting, carrying, bending, stretching, and reaching
- Working both indoors and outdoors
- Standing and moving around for extended periods
What We Offer
We offer a competitive salary and a great benefits package, including:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Health Care Cash Plan
- Group Personal Pension Plan
- Life Assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Retail and lifestyle discounts
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Enhanced family-friendly policies
- Training and development opportunities
