About us
We are an award winning 3PL operating in Central Bedfordshire for over 50 years. As a robust, fast growing family business, we now have over 200 employees working across our 6 warehousing sites and Distribution Centre. We offer a competitive salary, excellent employee benefits and continuously invest in our workforce.
Working as part of a team you will be responsible for delivering safe and efficient receipt, storage and dispatch of customer goods and products, providing customers with a fast, reliable, and accurate.
This role will be working Monday to Friday 1pm to 10pm.
No agencies please
Main responsibilities:
- Receive and process customer stock (unload, receipt, label and putaway)
- Prepare and complete orders for delivery or collection according to schedule (pick, pack, wrap, label, ship)
- Perform inventory controls and maintain high standards for audits
- Maintain a clean and safe working environment
- Optimise space utilisation
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills with external customers and internal stakeholders across the business
- Manage customer expectations within a timely and professional manner
- Maintain internal documentation
- Compliance to company policy
- Ability to prioritise workload and work to multiple deadlines
- Liaise and arrange special delivery instruction
What we are looking for...
Profile:
- Ability to work under pressure
- Previous experience working in a busy Warehouse environment or equivalent.
- Flexibility is their approach to work.
- Work well as an individual or as part of a team.
Technical competencies:
- Outlook, excel, word are an advantage
- Open WMS usage is desirable but not essential as full training and support will be provided
- Good level of computer literacy
- Counterbalance/VNA/Reach/PPT desired
- Counterbalance licence is essential
- VNA/PPT and Reach licence is desirable
Behavioural competencies:
- Reliable
- Enjoy working as part of a team
- Able to work on own initiative
- Excellent communicator
- Maintain/improve standards
- A high level of attention to detail
- Works well under pressure
- Good customer service and communication skills
Benefits:
- 23 days holiday plus bank holidays. Increasing by 1 day per annum from 3 years service until 28 days is accrued plus bank holidays
- Death in service of 3 x basic salary
- Pension at 4% employee and employee contributions
- Health Cash Plan
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £14.25 per hour
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
Licence/Certification:
- Counterbalance Licence (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
