Warehouse Apprentice

Farmfoods; Monkspath; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned UK-based retailer is seeking a Warehouse Apprentice at their Solihull depot. The role involves picking stock, ensuring quality, and adhering to health and safety regulations. This positions offers the chance to gain essential skills and advance within a supportive environment. Successful candidates will enjoy training programs and potential future leadership opportunities. With the company's focus on quality service, this may be the start of a rewarding career.

Benefits

Excellent training programmes

Opportunities for career advancement

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Desire to learn new skills and grow within the company.

Responsibilities

• Accurately pick stock onto pallets.
• Handle stock according to quality standards.
• Follow health and safety protocols.
• Keep the warehouse organized and clean.
• Work as a team to meet deadlines.

Skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Organisation skills

Problem-solving skills

Analytical skills

Logical reasoning

Team working

Initiative

Patience

Physical fitness

Job description

Overview

Are you ambitious and looking for a new career working in warehousing? Farmfoods are looking to recruit a Warehouse Apprentice at their Solihull depot. If you desire to learn new skills, then this could be the start of a rewarding career for you.

Responsibilities

• Accurately and quickly pick stock onto pallets
• Handle stock with care, checking dates, codes and quality
• Work within all health & safety requirements of the site
• Use warehouse equipment and manual handling techniques responsibly
• Keep the warehouse clean, tidy and organised as part of daily and weekly routines
• Work with the rest of your team to meet targets and deadlines
• Conduct risk assessments within the working environment
• Apply safe working practices in line with associated health and safety legislation and company policy
• Receive products in line with organisational procedures
• Store and pick products in line with organisational procedures
• Dispatch products in line with organisational procedures
• Decant and pack products in line with organisational procedures
• Communicate verbally with internal and external customers, colleagues and managers
• Communicate in writing with internal and external customers, colleagues and managers
• Load and unload products, considering the product that is to be moved and its current and planned destination
• Use tools and equipment to aid in product handling
• Use information technology and digital systems. Comply with GDPR and cyber security
• Locate and use operational information, electronic or paper based, required to fulfil contractual requirements
• Select, prepare, and use packaging materials that reduce waste and mitigate environmental impacts
• Support under instruction scheduled and unscheduled stock‑taking activities relevant to the organisation and product
• Identify and escalates problems beyond own responsibility
• Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance, and segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal
• Follow equity, diversity and inclusion rules
• Carry out and record learning and development activities
• Conduct handover activities

Why Farmfoods?

Our warehouse operatives are the backbone of our distribution operation and are essential to ensuring our shops have everything they need to deliver a great service to our customers. Completing this Level 2 apprenticeship can also be the first step towards preparing you for future leadership roles within our warehouse operations.

There are many opportunities for a career at Farmfoods. We have excellent training programmes and always look to promote to supervisory and management positions from within. Many people in management and central services positions at Farmfoods started their careers in our entry‑level positions, so this could be the start of a rewarding career for you.

Key Skills

• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem‑solving skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical reasoning
• Team working
• Initiative
• Patience
• Physical fitness

Farmfoods is a family business with ambition. We pride ourselves on offering our customers great value, quality products from clean and tidy shops and warehouses with the friendliest team in the industry.