Salary: £12.71 - 14.71 per hour
Reference: TBWHF
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:
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Core Task 1: Loading & Unloading: Efficiently unload incoming deliveries from lorries and load outgoing wagons/lorries.
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Core Task 2: Timed Dispatches: Prioritise and execute the loading of wagons at specific scheduled times to ensure transport deadlines are met.
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Core Task 3: 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.
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Core Task 4: 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.
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Core Task 5: Inventory Accuracy: Use warehouse management systems (or manual logs) to ensure all stock movements are recorded correctly.
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Collaboration: Communicating with production team leaders to establish replenishment levels and finished products to be loaded daily, while reporting into warehouse team leader.
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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
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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.
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There are 2 shifts available based on where needed
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Monday to Friday 6am-3pm
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Monday to Friday 8am-5pm
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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:
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Previous warehouse experience - ideally experience operating a Counterbalance forklift truck
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Stock counting experience
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Good communication skills
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Have access to transport as there are no public transport for the early shift start times
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