Goods In and Stores Operative

Swegon UK & I; Snodland; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

Swegon Group is seeking a Goods In and Stores Operative for a weekend shift (Fri–Sun, 06:00–18:00, 30 min break). The role focuses on receipt, storage, and distribution of goods with emphasis on inventory accuracy and efficient warehouse operations.

Key duties include maintaining stock records, ensuring timely receipt and storage, and supporting stock control processes. Forklift experience and IT literacy (WMS/ERP) are essential, with a reach truck preferred but not required.

Qualifications

• Stores activities experience to manage receipt, storage, and movement of goods.
• Factory experience to support production and despatch operations.
• Ability to operate combi trucks in a warehouse environment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain material availability for daily production and despatch requirements.
• Maintain stock transaction records with high accuracy and report discrepancies.
• Unload vehicles and ensure all goods are labelled.
• Coordinate stock movements and inventory control with relevant teams.
• Support stock takes and non-conforming product handling.
• Arrange skip exchanges and pallet deliveries.

Skills

Stores experience

Factory experience

Combi trucks

Tools

WMS

ERP

Job description

Position Summary

We have a great opportunity for a Goods In and Stores Operative employee to join Swegon on a weekend only shift pattern, the hours for this role are Friday to Sunday 06:00 - 18:00 with a 30 minute unpaid break each shift. The focus of this role is to efficiently manage the receipt, storage, and distribution of goods, ensuring inventory accuracy and operational efficiency within the warehouse or storage facility. This role involves handling inbound goods, maintaining organised storage and overseeing stock movements to support the smooth operation of the stores and meet organisational goals.

Main duties and responsibilities:

Maintain material availability for daily production and despatch requirements

Maintain stock transaction records to the highest accuracy and report stock errors and anomalies to Inventory Controller.

Maintain clean and safe storage areas.

Ensure timely receipt of incoming purchase orders and appropriate storage of goods within the current inventory control structure.

Support best practice in materials and stock control processes and techniques, including consignment, DLF-lineside, kanban and VMI.

Execute stocktake processes as required.

Work closely with Inventory Controller, QA department and Purchasing Department to co-ordinate non-conforming product issues.

Arrange skip exchanges/ pallet deliveries

Unload Vehicles in a timely manner

Ensure all goods are labelled

Essential Experience

• Stores activities

• Factory experience

• Combi trucks

Essential Qualifications

• Basic IT skills computer literacy (knowledge of inventory management systems) WMS ERP

• Forklift licence - Counter balance

• A reach truck licence is not essential but highly desirable

We offer
At Swegon, we work to create the world's best indoor climate that makes people thrive and feel good inside. We have ambitious goals in our sustainability efforts, in offering the most energy-efficient products, promoting gender equality, and becoming carbon neutral, and we have clear transparency in our work. We offer exciting challenges in a global environment with competent colleagues and a culture characterized by our values; "Customer Empathy, Trust, and Commitment," which permeate everything we do and are the basis for the decisions we make and how we interact with each other. At Swegon, we have an open and flexible organizational culture with short decision-making processes, plenty of development opportunities, and we care about you being able to balance your work with your personal life. We place great emphasis on personal qualities, welcome applicants with different backgrounds, and strive for diversity and gender equality.

About Swegon Group
Swegon Group, owned by the Stockholm Stock Exchange-listed Investment AB Latour, is a market-leading provider of a healthy indoor climate, with solutions for ventilation, heating, cooling, and climate optimization, as well as connected services and technical expertise. Swegon has subsidiaries and distributors worldwide and 17 production units in Europe, North America, and India. The company has approximately 3000 employees and had a turnover of approximately SEK 6 billion in 2022.

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