Forklift Driver/Warehouse Operative

Menzies Distribution Solutions; Oldham; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A distribution solutions provider in Oldham is seeking a Forklift Driver/Warehouse Operative to ensure accurate picking, packing, and dispatch of goods. Candidates should have mandatory forklift experience and the necessary licenses. The role offers a salary starting at £24,000 per year with a 4 on/2 off shift pattern. The company values an inclusive work environment and provides benefits like a pension scheme and employee assistance.

Benefits

Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• Experience in a warehouse environment required.
• Counterbalance, Reach Truck & Pivot steer licenses preferable.

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate picking, packing, and dispatch of goods.
• Cooperate fully with safety requirements.
• Load trailers in a timely manner.
• Perform stock integrity and quality checks.

Skills

Forklift experience

Good communication skills

Team working skills

Basic numeracy skills

Basic literacy skills

Job description

Forklift Driver/Warehouse Operative

Menzies Distribution Solutions are currently recruiting for Warehouse Operatives to join our team in Oldham. The purpose of this role is to provide accurate and prompt picking, packing and dispatch of the depot warehouse goods & requires you to complete various warehouse tasks, as safely, accurately and as efficiently as possible upholding and the highest standards of health and safety at all times. Also includes other duties to help maintain the efficient and successful working of the warehouse.

*** We are looking for Counterbalance, Reach Truck & Pivot steer (Flexi/bendi/aislemaster) Licences and experience in using them preferable ***

The Details:

• Salary: £24,000,£12.36 per hour
• Shift Pattern: 4 On/ 2 Off
• 37.33Hours Per Week
• Start Times: Between18:00-22:00
• Fnish times: Between03:00-07:00
• Forklift Experience is Mandatory
• Monthly Pay

Warehouse Operative duties:

• Co-operate fully with the sites safety requirements
• Receive deliveries of customer stock from trailers into warehouse. Check quantities, record receipt and pass on paperwork
• Pick and pack customer orders to achieve agreed turn-round targets, dispatching orders with appropriate paperwork. Both full pallet and manual case/break picked from the racking and ground locations
• Load trailers with customer goods in timely manner
• Put away of customer goods from the warehouse floor into the racking
• Manual handling of products
• Signing for and accepting responsibility for tasks that have been completed
• Housekeeping, both physical completion and hygiene checks
• Stock integrity and quality checks
• Keep warehouse and outside forecourts clean and tidy including shelf dusting, keeping gangways clear and litter removal

About you:

• Good Communication & team working skills
• Experience operating within a warehouse environment
• Basic numeracy and literacy skills
• A professional manner

BENEFITS

• Pension Scheme
• Employee Assistance Program

INCLUSION

Menzies Distribution Solutions is committed to creating a fair and inclusive environment where employees feel safe, proud and valued. We encourage ways of working that treat everyone fairly and with respect, and we look to create opportunities to improve the diversity of our workforce across all areas of the business.

We seek to attract and recruit people from the widest talent pool, who reflect the society in which we work. And we aim to encourage an inclusive culture where people can feel empowered to be the very best they can be, and to reach their full potential creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.