Warehouse despatch operative

Interaction Recruitment; Great Hatfield; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is looking for a Warehouse Dispatch Operative in Great Hatfield. The ideal candidate should have previous dispatch experience, knowledge of export compliance, and experience with various courier platforms. This role involves shipping services, ensuring accuracy in reporting, and maintaining high levels of housekeeping in the warehouse. The position offers a competitive hourly rate of £13.84 with overtime pay, in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Previous dispatch experience is essential.
• Knowledge of export requirements and commercial invoices is necessary.
• Experience sending dangerous goods by air is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Use courier vendor platforms for both UK and international shipping.
• Liaise with scheduling and ensure SAP queues are cleared.
• Produce end of day reports and escalate issues as needed.

Skills

Attention to detail

Strong work ethic

Communication skills

Experience in ERP systems (e.g., SAP)

Team player

Tools

SAP

WMCS

Courier platforms (e.g., TNT, DP Del)

Job description

Warehouse despatch operative

Location: Hatfield

Monday–Friday working hours 0700 – 1500 , 11:00–19:00

37.5 Hours per week

Hourly rate £13.84 + Overtime at 1.5

3 months rolling contract

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Warehouse Dispatch Operative in the Services logistics Warehouse. You will need to have high levels of accuracy, attention to detail and a strong work ethic; previous export compliance knowledge would be beneficial as you will be raising commercial invoices and previous logistical experience would be highly desirable. You will need to have high levels of accuracy, attention to detail and a strong work ethic. You will have experience in ERP systems (preferably SAP and WMCS), to be successful in the role you will be a great team player, have a flexible approach to work, the ability to work in a fast-paced environment, perform against personal performance targets, prioritise workloads against demand to meet our service level agreements with our customers and have excellent communication skills and be able to escalated directly to your management team and internal service providers, both orally and electronically.

MainResponsibilities

• Using six different courier vendor platforms to ship both UK homeland services and international.
• Using escalation routes for different partners.
• Liaising with scheduling.
• Ensuring SAP queues are cleared.
• Producing an end of day report.
• Effectively escalated where required both orally and electronically.
• Producing manifests for the trunk and sharing electronically between internal service providers and management.
• Maintaining high levels of housekeeping (working in a 6s environment).

Essential for this role:

• Previous dispatch experience.
• Knowledge of export requirements, commercial invoices, sending dangerous goods by air etc.
• Proven experience using different courier platforms e.g. TNT, DP Del.

The Ideal Candidate

• Some export compliance knowledge.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Strong experience in Warehouse practices.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Be a quick learner.
• Able to prioritise workloads.
• Good numerical skills.
• Excellent timekeeping and a flexible approach to work demands.
• Flexible working approach.
• Counterbalance FLT licence advantage.
• Stock management.
• Picks and Putaways.
• Working in a pressurised environment to a high degree of accuracy.

IND/LET Please contact Steve Hill on 07825837229