Sr Material Handler

Thermo Fisher Scientific; Loughborough; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in pharmaceutical manufacturing is seeking warehouse team members to ensure accurate and efficient handling of products. Responsibilities include receiving, processing, and shipping orders, requiring at least one year of related experience. Candidates should have a high school diploma and be familiar with safety protocols.

Benefits

Competitive Annual Salary

Performance Related Bonus

Medical Benefits

Annual Leave

Pension Plan

Employee Referral Bonus

Career Advancement Opportunities

Subsidised Restaurant

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year experience in distribution or warehouse.
• Experience with powered industrial trucks, training provided.

Responsibilities

• Receive deliveries and ensure correct handling of products.
• Pick and prepare customer orders for shipment.
• Load and unload products safely and efficiently.

Skills

Efficiency Improvement

Safety Compliance

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

Powered Industrial Trucks

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Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.), Warehouse

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division Specific Information:

The Fisher Scientific Channel, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, offers a comprehensive range of products, and extensive support services to the research, production, testing laboratories, healthcare, and science education markets. We keep science moving forward by providing an unrivalled selection of chemicals, consumables, equipment, instruments, diagnostics, and much more, along with outstanding customer care from an industry-leading team.

How Will You Make an Impact?

Working with the warehouse team you will ensure that products are received, put away, picked, packed, and shipped accurately and efficiently, following the Safety, Quality and Delivery model. You will be responsible for the smooth operation of warehouse activities with your focus on safely meeting our day-to-day goals and commitments to our customers.

A Day in the Life:

• Receive deliveries and returns from suppliers and customers at the loading bay.
• Load and unload items such as boxes, packages, cages, and pallets using manual handling equipment.
• Check the quantity and quality of inbound goods, book into warehouse management system, prepare for storage and put away in designated zones
• Pick and assemble customer orders from various warehouse locations using radio data terminals and picking lists.
• Prepare customer orders for delivery by packaging and labelling cartons and pallets/chemicals for safe and secure transportation.
• Sort customer orders into designated outbound routes on the dispatch bay according to the assigned loading sequence.
• Safely load vehicles, third-party carriers and own fleet, against the manifest loading sequence.
  
  

Education: High School Diploma, Secondary Education, Advanced Certificate, or equivalent.

Experience:

• Required: Minimum 1 year of work experience in distribution, warehouse, supply chain or related field
• Required: Experience with powered industrial trucks (order pickers/forklifts) Training provided.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Able to improve efficiency and performance by supporting the PPI system, Kaizen Projects and Just Do Its.
• Act as a subject expert
• Train colleagues and onboard new hires
  
  

Compensation

What We Offer

• Competitive Annual Salary
• Performance Related Bonus where eligible*
• Annual merit performance-based increase
  
  

Excellent Benefits

• Medical Benefits*
• Annual Leave
• Pension Plan*
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Career Advancement Opportunities
• Subsidised Restaurant
• This may vary by country based on local legal requirements.
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Production, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Biotechnology Research

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