Logistics Operative

TribePost Ltd; Wigan; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Wigan is seeking a Logistics Operative to join their dynamic team. The role involves operating warehousing equipment, managing stock levels, and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. Ideal candidates will have a forklift license and experience in a manufacturing environment. The position offers a friendly atmosphere, opportunities for progression, and various employee benefits including holiday entitlement and a sick pay scheme.

Benefits

Employee of the Month Award

Holiday entitlement

Company Sick Pay Scheme

Refer a Friend Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in a busy manufacturing or warehouse environment.
• Exposure to quality, health, safety, and environmental standards.

Responsibilities

• Operate warehousing equipment safely, including forklift trucks.
• Manage pallet stocks and load/unload deliveries.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety standards.

Skills

Numeracy

Literacy

Administration

Computer Skills

Education

Forklift Truck License

Job description

Saica are recruiting for a Logistics Operative

Logistics Operative

Location: Wigan, Lancashire, WN5 0LQ.
Salary: £26250 per annum.
Contract: Full time, permanent. Shift patterns detailed below.

With a presence in 11 countries and over 10,000 employees, Saica Group manufacture sustainable recycled paper, corrugated cardboard and flexible packaging as well as providing solutions for waste management and the recovery of waste. Our Flex division produces a range of flexible plastic films, with our site in Wigan manufacturing products for major food retailers and suppliers.

We have an opportunity for an individual to join our Logistics’ Team. As a Logistics Operative you will work as part of a team servicing production, picking and packing finished goods and raw materials ensuring the highest standards of service are delivered in line with business and customer requirements.

Your key duties will include:

• Operate in line with site health and safety, environmental and quality standards, ensuring compliance with standard operating procedures. Operate warehousing equipment safely, including forklift trucks, in order to carry out your duties. Identify and promptly report any problems or faults relating to your area or any other area of your responsibility.
• Ensure shift handover document is filled and signed after shift and at the start of the shift and put in ”Shift Handover sheets” tray in Logistics office.
• Operating from hall 3, scan and unwrap pallets, issuing fillm to the presses in line with the order requirements and the print plan.
• Take responsibilty for removing all RTS reels from the print presses, weigh and record the weight, strap and place in the RTS holding location.
• Empty all bailers and skips on factory floor, ensuring the strap is weighed and that all bailed wasted is removed to the bailed waste holding location outside.
• Empty cardboard skip on shop floor and remove unused 6′ cores from shop floor, ensuring waste is removed to the cardboard waste skip outside.
• Remove, weigh and record all used set up reels from print and conversion and dispose in film waste skips outside.
• Keep Hall 3 and yard clear and tidy, brush walkways ensure there is no debris.
• Wrap, strap and book in Finished Goods in.
• Manage pallet stocks ensuring used pallets are removed from the shop floor, maintain stock levels of pallets used for finished goods and re-stock interleaves for finished goods pallets.
• Store any pallets in an efficient, safe and secure manner.
• Load and unload deliveries, using forklift truck, Electronic pallet truck or Bendi truck, ensuring deliveries are logged in the folder in warehouse and goods together with delivery documentation placed in Goods in area. Ensure that collection documentation is signed by drivers and put in ”Signed collection notes” tray in Logistics office.
• Provide support to colleagues and carry out any additional duties requested of you as and when required.

Skills, Qualification & Attributes

• Licenced Forklift Truck driver – Counterbalance, Bendi & Powered Pallet Trucks.
• Good level of numeracy & literacy.
• Previous experience within a busy manufacturing or warehouse environment.
• Some experience of basic administration/record keeping.
• Good computer/ administration skills.
• Exposure to quality, health, safety and environmental standards and practices within a production setting.

The site operates a 24/7 shift system spread over four-week pattern. A willingness to work a shift pattern covering days, nights and weekends is essential.

The role operates 12-hour shifts across a 4-week Continental shift pattern:

What do we offer?

• Friendly atmosphere
• Progression
• Employee of the Month Award (monthly and annually)
• Holiday entitlement 21 days inclusive of Bank Holidays (increasing to 22 days after 2 years of continuous service)
• Company Sick Pay Scheme (available after 12 months of continuous service)
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme

Interested? If you have a can-do, will-do approach to join a hardworking, dynamic, passionate, manufacturing team, please send your CV today.

Registered Office: 36B Speirs Wharf, Port Dundas, Glasgow, G4 9TG

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