Senior Warehouse Operative

Arco Ltd; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 29,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Warehouse Operative to elevate their career in a dynamic environment. This role involves overseeing warehouse operations, ensuring safety and quality, and leading a small team. The ideal candidate will possess strong warehouse experience, a commitment to continuous improvement, and the ability to manage performance. Join a company that values diversity and inclusion, offering a supportive atmosphere and numerous benefits, including a competitive salary and opportunities for personal development. This is your chance to make a significant impact in a respected organization dedicated to safety excellence.

Benefits

32 days holiday plus option to purchase more

10% annual bonus

Pension and Life Assurance scheme

Community Volunteering days

High street retailer discounts

Employee Assistance Programme

Learning Management System access

Long-term service awards

Qualifications

• Experience in warehouse operations with a focus on quality and safety.
• Ability to lead a small team and manage performance effectively.

Responsibilities

• Ensure quality of work and compliance with health and safety standards.
• Lead the warehouse team and manage staff performance and absence.

Skills

Basic IT skills

Literacy and numeracy

Previous warehouse experience

Knowledge of health & safety

Organisational skills

Continuous improvement mindset

Tools

Warehouse Management System (WMS)

SAP Systems

Job description

About The Role

Are you ready to take your warehouse career to the next level? We're searching for a dynamic and experienced Senior Warehouse Operative. If you're passionate about maintaining top-notch quality, ensuring the safety of your team, and driving performance to new heights, we want to hear from you. With your background in warehousing and a strong desire to achieve goals while leading a small team, you could be the missing piece we've been searching for. Join us in shaping the future of our warehouse operations!

Working in a safe, accurate and efficient manner, you will be carrying out standard warehouse operations and acting as lead warehouse person in the area of responsibility. You will also be required to deputise NDC team leader responsibilities at times of holiday, sickness or absence.

This is a fantastic opportunity for either an experienced operative looking to make their first steps into leadership, or someone with some leadership experience looking for an opportunity to upskill and progress their career.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsibility for the quality of work produced and for resource planning and utilisation.
• Responsibility for all health and safety in the warehouse area and ensuring compliance with a set of operating procedures, using computer and manual systems to achieve agreed operational targets.
• Analysing and resolving standard operational problems, including use of the Warehouse Management/SAP Systems.
• Responsibility for staff, performance and absence management and the ability to deputise for the team leader in their absence.
• Supporting the warehouse team leader with continuous improvement projects.
• Responsibility of supervision, workload, holiday, sickness/absence management and conducting staff performance reviews.

On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:

• A starting salary of £28,828.80 plus up to 10% annual bonus.
• 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days.
• 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year.
• An excellent pension and Life Assurance scheme.
• A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks.
• Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development.
• Long-term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years.

About You

The ideal Senior Warehouse Operative (Line Leader) will be/have:

• Basic IT skills and good levels of literacy and numeracy.
• Previous warehouse experience.
• Knowledge of health & safety.
• Product knowledge including pack quantities and quality and in-depth knowledge of WMS/SAP systems.
• A strong desire to achieve departmental goals and look for continuous improvement.
• Organisational skills along with excellent accuracy and the ability to instil this as a key measure within the department.

About Us

With a 140-year legacy, Arco are recognised as the UK's leading safety experts. As the only integrated safety products and services business, our size, scale and reputation in the sector are why we have such an impressive portfolio of accounts and customers. We're the expert safety partner with a unique mix of specialist expertise and practical real-life industry knowledge.

We are now on a transformation journey to become more profitable and sustainable, with investment into our growing business to help achieve this. This is an exciting and demanding time for the business. There is opportunity to shape and challenge the transformation journey and future growth, while balancing the pressure to deliver sales growth and financial targets that are necessary to support the future growth. Our behaviours; Care, Collaborate, Perform and Deliver, are embedded within our culture, to drive performance and ensure we succeed together and are rewarded for that shared success. Because It’s on us. To deliver. Together.

Diversity and Inclusion at Arco means understanding everyone's views and giving colleagues a sense of belonging. We respect and value individuals for their unique skills, experiences and ideas; to ensure we can be at our best. By creating a supportive and inclusive environment we will be an organisation able to drive our strategic goals, attracting and developing great people to be a more profitable and sustainable business for generations to come.

Be Safe, Be Yourself, Be Your Best.