Operations Assistant

William Wilson Limited; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Pension scheme

Bonus potential

Healthcare access

Discounts

Cycle to Work

Job summary

William Wilson Limited in Edinburgh is hiring an Operations Assistant to join our busy warehouse team. You will handle general warehouse duties, pick and pack stock, load and unload vehicles, and make customer deliveries by 3.5t van.

The role is full-time, 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday with occasional Saturday shifts after probation. We value practical, dependable team players with a full UK manual driving license, who can handle a physically demanding job and communicate confidently with

Qualifications

• Experience working in a warehouse or similar environment.
• Full UK manual driving license is essential.
• Able to handle a physically demanding job.
• Excellent communication skills and confidence in customer interactions.
• Dependable team player, prepared to support in all areas of the branch with a strong work ethic.
• Eagerness to learn, with a positive and enthusiastic attitude.

Responsibilities

• General Warehouse duties.
• Picking and packing stock, which will involve heavy lifting and manual handling of heavy items like boilers, radiators, toilets etc.
• Loading/unloading vehicles safely.
• Delivery driving 3.5t van, doing customer deliveries.
• Ensuring the workplace is tidy and adheres to our health and safety procedures.

Skills

Warehouse experience

Driving license

Physical fitness

Customer communication

Team player

Eagerto learn

Job description

Salary: £26,695 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits Operations Assistant - Edinburgh - William Wilson

So, who are we? We are William Wilson, a part of the Wolseley Group - a leading specialist trade merchant across the UK and Ireland. We pride ourselves in putting our people and customers at the heart of everything we do – and best of all, provide opportunities to develop skills and build careers through our award-winning Wolseley Talent Guild. Also, did we mention? In addition to the £26,695 salary, there are also benefits on tap – including... Annual leave (increasing with length of service), a generous pension scheme (matched up to 9%), potential to earn bonuses, enhanced maternity / adoption leave and access to a great range of online and high street discounts. We also promote positive health and wellbeing by offering free access to healthcare, our popular YuLife app, our Cycle to Work scheme and more.

As a Operations Assistant based in Edinburgh, you’ll be responsible for:

• General Warehouse duties.
• Picking and packing stock, which will involve heavy lifting and manual handling of heavy items like boilers, radiators, toilets etc.
• Loading/unloading vehicles safely.
• Delivery driving 3.5t van, doing customer deliveries.
• Ensuring the workplace is tidy and adheres to our health and safety procedures.

The role is full time, permanent position, 40hrs per week, Monday-Friday 07:30-16:30. Alternate Saturdays 08:00-12:00 after probation.

And here’s what we’d like you to have:

• Experience working in a warehouse or similar environment.
• Full UK manual driving license is essential.
• Able to handle a physically demanding job.
• Excellent communication skills and confidence in customer interactions.
• Dependable team player, prepared to support in all areas of the branch with a strong work ethic.
• Eagerness to learn, with a positive and enthusiastic attitude.

Wolseley UK is the country’s largest plumbing, heating and cooling trade specialist merchant and we aim to be the first choice specialist merchant for trade customers. We supply 180,000 different products to over 100,000 customers every year. Join us and you’ll be part of a team that gets the right products to customers at the right price, in the right place, and at the right time. You’ll also enjoy extensive training and an award-winning pension and great rewards package. And, as part of the world’s largest specialist distributer of plumbing and heating products, you’ll have access to a wide variety of career opportunities.