Warehouse Operative

First Home Improvements; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days paid annual holiday

Company Pension Scheme

Discounts on company products

Line manager training opportunities

Job summary

First Home Improvements in Crawley is seeking a warehouse operative to ensure window and door products are ready for dispatch. You will quality check, update databases, and support loading and unloading vehicles, requiring physical stamina.

Working as part of a small team you will manage stock levels, paperwork, and health and safety on site, with 6am starts and 45 hours minimum per week. The role offers ongoing hours and potential for additional shifts.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of window/door industry products.
• Knowledge of frame and roof manufacturing processes.
• Experience in the construction industry.
• Well organised with attention to detail and good time management.
• Willingness to follow management instructions and meet deadlines.
• Good physical stamina and a team player attitude.
• Basic IT skills and ability to input data.
• Good oral communication.

Responsibilities

• Take control of deliveries: log products onto the database and allocate items to a job number.
• Quality control of frames, glass and other items; email remake/missing items teams as needed.
• Stock control and management: monitor stock levels and order replenishment.
• Organise workflow to ensure next days work is on track and stock is available.
• Compile customer packs and check finance docs with installer daily sheet.
• Organise fitters: coordinate collection of work and waste disposal.
• Health and safety: perform risk assessments and weekly fire alarm checks.
• Maintain yard appearance and site security; manage skips and recycling.
• Check PPE and order replacements when required.
• Process and secure cash/cheque receipts and arrange security collections.
• Local First Aid and Fire Marshal responsibilities.
• Resolve installation queries quickly.

Skills

Window/door knowledge

Frame manufacturing

Construction experience

Time management

Team player

IT basics

Data entry

Oral communication

Job description

• Monday – Friday, 45 hours a week min. 6am start. Additional hours available daily.
• Pay: Hourly paid starting at £12.75 per hour.

Main Purpose of Role

Warehouse based role responsible for ensuring our window and door products are ready to go out on time, quality checked, including all associated paperwork. This includes supporting the loading and unloading of vehicles with product which requires physical stamina. The accurate updating of data bases and maintaining all aspects of stock control is a core part of the role. Being able to work effectively in a small team and taking responsibility for the warehouse security plus its health and safety environment is essential.

Main Duties:

• Taking control of deliveries: Checking and entering all product deliveries on to the data base and allocating items to a specific job number
• Quality control: Checking correct sizes and establish good quality on all frames, glass, and any other delivered items:
  • When errors are identified for missing items, email the order processor urgently.
  • For remakes: Enter on remake report and email remake team at Head Office
• Stock control and management:
  • Daily – Monitoring supplies issued and updating the depot current stock level share file, ordering stock replenishment.
  • Annual – Completing the annual stock take
• Organising workflow: Checking in advance to ensure that the next few days work is on track and that stock is available
• Compile customer packs: Check finance docs using the installer daily sheet
• Organising fitters: Control the smooth flow of fitters collecting their work from the depot in the morning and ensuring they put rubbish / recycling / glass in the correct skips
• Health and Safety: Carry out basic risk assessments as required and weekly fire alarm checks
• Responsible for the appearance, clearing of the yard (including regular sweeping for screws / glass etc.) and security of the site
• Ordering skips and organising recyclable materials and their collection and carrying out banks man duties when required
• Checking PPE and ordering replacements where necessary
• Securing, processing, and preparing documentation for the receipt of cash or cheques received from installers, and preparing Security Plus collections
• Local First Aid and Fire Marshal responsibilities
• Resolving queries related to installations as quickly as possible
• Undertaking any other reasonable management requests in relation to the role

KNOWLEDGE & SKILL & ATTRIBUTES

• Knowledge of window and door industry products
• A working knowledge of frame and roof manufacturing and their relevant fitting processes
• Experience of working in the construction industry
• Well organised, with attention to detail and good at managing own time
• Happy to follow management instructions
• Ability to work to meet deadlines and changing priorities
• Possessing physical stamina
• Displays a “can do” attitude & a team player
• Basic IT skills/ and ability to learn basic data base input processes
• Good oral communication

About This Role

• Candidate should have the ability to travel to and from our Depot. The location may not be on any bus route (start time) or easily accessible unless you have your own transport.
• 30 days paid annual holiday (including Bank Holidays)
• Christmas - New Year close down
• Company Pension Scheme
• Discounts on company products
• Line manager support with training opportunities