Warehouse Operative

Aircraft Maintenance Systems; Accrington; On-site; GBP 24,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking dedicated Warehouse Operatives for their Huncoat Distribution Centre. This role involves unloading and storing stock, loading wagons for home delivery, and ensuring an excellent customer experience. Ideal candidates will have manual handling experience and be able to lift heavy items such as mattresses and furniture. The position offers a competitive salary and a variety of attractive benefits including employee discounts, health cashback options, and opportunities for career progression. Join a team that values your contribution and fosters a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Employee discount scheme

Medicash health cashback options

Unum Income Protection

Pension scheme

Discounted Gym membership

Cycle to Work scheme

Annual leave buy & sell scheme

Enhanced maternity and adoption leave

Access to Retail Trust services

Learning and development programmes

Qualifications

• Experience in a warehouse environment is preferred.
• Ability to lift and maneuver heavy items is essential.

Responsibilities

• Unload and store stock, ensuring timely delivery of products.
• Perform stock counts and safety checks as required.
• Maintain health and safety procedures in line with company policies.

Skills

Manual handling experience

Warehouse Management Systems

PPT licence

Ability to lift heavy products

Self-motivated

Team contribution

Job description

Warehouse Operative - Huncoat Distribution Centre (BB5 6NJ) - £23,634 p.a. + benefits. Our warehouse operatives are responsible for unloading and storing stock received from our manufacturing site, along with loading wagons ready for home delivery, contributing to providing an excellent customer experience when they receive the right product, on time, in excellent condition. The products are mostly mattresses, bed frames and bedroom furniture (heavy items) so please consider this when applying.

This role is working rotating shifts - Monday to Friday 6-2 & 2-10.

The Role

We are hiring Warehouse Operatives for immediate starts who will be responsible for ensuring that all daily warehouse tasks are completed under the supervision of the Warehouse Team Leader.

Your role will involve:

• Receiving, storing and loading of customer specific orders and stock, into the delivery units ready for delivery.
• Ensuring the right stock is picked from the correct location and goes to the right bay, minimising errors.
• Doing stock counts, safety checks, processing returned goods as required.
• Using manual and mechanical operations to move incoming stock from suppliers.
• Ensuring all handling, Health and Safety procedures and operating standards are maintained in line with company policies.
• Being part of a great customer service delivery operation so that we remain a leading provider of logistics services.

The Skills

• Previous manual handling experience and experience of working within a warehousing environment preferred.
• Previous experience of Warehouse Management Systems would be beneficial and PPT licence an advantage.
• Ability to lift and manoeuvre heavy customer products (mattresses, bed frames & furniture, sometimes up staircases).
• Understands the importance of their role in Home delivery and its contribution to the wider customer experience.
• Self-Motivated, disciplined & positively contributes to the team, creating a ‘Great place to work’.
• Desire to deliver on our promises to our customers.

The Benefits

In return for your contribution to the team’s performance, we offer a base salary of £23,634 plus all these extra benefits:

• Employee discount scheme for Bensons products.
• Medicash - cashback options for Health and wellbeing services (dental, optical, virtual GP, other healthcare services and more).
• Unum Income Protection - for peace of mind if you’re off work long term due to illness.
• Pension scheme – provided by Legal & General.
• Discounted Gym membership.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Annual leave buy & sell scheme – you can top up your holiday entitlement or sell unused days to suit you.
• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave.
• Access to Retail Trust services (guidance and support on retail issues, mental health, wellbeing & financial topics).
• Learning and development programmes to gain new knowledge and skills.
• Career progression – access to internal opportunities to build your career within Bensons for Beds to supervisory and leadership roles into management.
• Long service awards and ‘Love to Shop’ voucher rewards to spend as you like.

(*qualifying periods and terms apply)

About Bensons for Beds

We're Bensons for Beds! We put Sleep Wellness at the heart of everything we do. With 100 years of experience in sourcing and manufacturing the best quality beds, frames and mattresses, at Bensons we understand how to design the perfect, tailored sleep experience. We have 170+ locations and employ c 1800 colleagues. Under new ownership of Alteri Investors we have an ambitious 3 year plan to grow the business further and achieve our mission of being the market leading bed retailer with a strong omnichannel presence.

If you're looking for a great Warehouse role, we would love to have a chat....