Warehouse Operative

Menzies Distribution Solutions; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in Wakefield is seeking Warehouse Operatives to ensure accurate picking, packing, and dispatch of goods while upholding safety standards. Key responsibilities include receiving stock, picking orders, and maintaining the cleanliness of the warehouse. Ideal candidates will have warehouse experience and strong communication skills. Competitive salary of £23,891.92 per year is offered, along with benefits including a pension scheme and employee assistance program.

Benefits

Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• Good communication and team working skills are essential.
• Experience in a warehouse environment is preferred.
• Basic numeracy and literacy skills required.

Responsibilities

• Co-operate fully with the site's safety requirements.
• Receive and check deliveries of customer stock.
• Pick and pack customer orders timely and accurately.
• Load trailers with customer goods efficiently.
• Maintain cleanliness and hygiene checks in the warehouse.

Skills

Good Communication & team working skills

Experience operating within a warehouse environment

Basic numeracy

Basic literacy

Tools

MHE – Articulated/Counterbalance/PPT licenses

Job description

Warehouse Operative

Menzies Distribution Solutions are currently recruiting for Warehouse Operatives to join our team in Wakefield. The purpose of this role is to provide accurate and prompt picking, packing and dispatch of the depot warehouse goods & requires you to complete various warehouse tasks, as safely, accurately and as efficiently as possible upholding and the highest standards of health and safety at all times. Also includes other duties to help maintain the efficient and successful working of the warehouse.

The Details:

• Salary: £23,891.92, £12.25 Per Hour
• Shift Pattern: Monday - Friday
• Hours:08:00 – 16:00
• 37.5 hours per week
• "8 days Annual Leave inclusive of Bank Holidays
• Monthly Pay

Warehouse Operative duties:

• Co-operate fully with the sites safety requirements
• Receive deliveries of customer stock from trailers into warehouse. Check quantities, record receipt and pass on paperwork
• Pick and pack customer orders to achieve agreed turn-round targets, dispatching orders with appropriate paperwork. Both full pallet and manual case/break picked from the racking and ground locations
• Load trailers with customer goods in timely manner
• Put away of customer goods from the warehouse floor into the racking
• Manual handling of products
• Signing for and accepting responsibility for tasks that have been completed
• Housekeeping, both physical completion and hygiene checks
• Stock integrity and quality checks
• Keep warehouse and outside forecourts clean and tidy including shelf dusting, keeping gangways clear and litter removal

About you:

• Good Communication & team working skills
• Experience operating within a warehouse environment
• Basic numeracy and literacy skills
• A professional manner
• MHE – Articulated/Counterbalance/PPT licenses preferable

BENEFITS

• Pension Scheme
• Employee Assistance Program

INCLUSION

Menzies Distribution Solutions is committed to creating a fair and inclusive environment where employees feel safe, proud and valued. We encourage ways of working that treat everyone fairly and with respect, and we look to create opportunities to improve the diversity of our workforce across all areas of the business.

We seek to attract and recruit people from the widest talent pool, who reflect the society in which we work. And we aim to encourage an inclusive culture where people can feel empowered to be the very best they can be, and to reach their full potential creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.