Warehouse operative Full time Days & Nights

Tesco; Livingston; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-known retail company in Livingston is seeking a Warehouse Operative. The role involves assembling orders, handling stock, and maintaining safety in the warehouse. Ideal candidates will be customer-focused, reliable, and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment. Various shifts available with a starting hourly rate of £14.68 plus bonuses. Excellent benefits included.

Benefits

20 days holiday plus personal days

Flexible working options

Colleague discounts

Wellbeing services

Life cover and pension benefits

Uniform provided

Qualifications

• Passion for delivering great customer service.
• Energy to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Reliability and punctuality.

Responsibilities

• Support store colleagues by assembling orders accurately.
• Maintain a tidy warehouse and ensure safety.
• Handle stock and ensure it is stored properly.

Skills

Customer service

Reliability

Teamwork

Adaptability

Job description

Tesco UK • Carnegie Road, Livingston • Permanent • Apply by 02-Oct-2025

Overview

Becoming a Warehouse Operative opens up incredible career possibilities - it's how many of our managers started out. To succeed as a Warehouse Operative you'll be someone who can put people at the heart of everything you do, building relationships with your team and acting quickly to help our customers. This is a hands-on job for people who enjoy tackling big challenges as part of a team, who like to stay active and who love to see their work make a visible difference.

You don't need any previous experience in working in a warehouse. We'll make sure you're fully trained.

What is in it for you

We have various Full time Days and Nights contracts available across the team and we would love to chat to you around hours and shifts that would suit your needs.

Location: Carnegie Road, EH54 8TB

Current available shifts:

Week 1: 06:00 - 14:00 and Week 2: 14:00 - 22:00 (Rotating day shift 5 out of 7 days) and Nights - 22:00 - 06:00

(You must be able to work both shifts alternating weekly)

The Basic Hourly rate is £14.68 per hour

Plus performance related bonus:

88 % + £0.30p extra per hour

92% + £ 0.60p extra per hour

99% + £1.00 extra per hour

We would love to chat to you around hours and shifts that would suit your needs.

Plus there are additional overtime and premiums payments available on top.

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:

• Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus Bank holidays)
• Request flexible working from day one
• Get 10% off and 15% at pay day weekends - save up to £2,000 a year with your Colleague Clubcard with an additional card to share with family outside your home
• Access to free wellbeing services with a range of resources to support your mind, body, and life
• Life cover of five times your pay and an award-winning pension with matching contributions up to 7.5%
• Benefits to suit you, choose what you use - from discounts and shares to cycle to work schemes
• Uniform provided and policies to support you for all of life's moments, big and small
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here.
• Click here to read more about the benefits we have available for our colleagues

You will be responsible for

• Having a key role in supporting our store colleagues by making sure orders are assembled accurately
• Picking and manually handling stock
• Maintaining a clear and tidy warehouse and ensure any potential hazards are taken care of safely, quickly and efficiently.
• Making sure stock is received, stored, packed and transported according to the highest standards
• Taking ownership for your own and others safety whilst at work
• Using tools provided and training material provided efficiently
• Using your Mechanical Handling Equipment efficiently
• Working both independently and as part of a team

You will need

• To have passion about delivering great customer service.
• Energy to enjoy the buzz of working in a fast paced yet exciting environment.
• A driven and keen attitude to learn new skills as well as thriving whilst working in an encouraging team.
• Reliability and punctuality.
• The ability to adapt to working in a fast-paced ever-evolving environment.
• Be happy to go that extra mile.

Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.

About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we're a place where Everyone's Welcome.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That\'s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

Please note

Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver's age. To find out the school leavers age for your country please click here

We can only accept candidates over the age of 18 if the role requires working before 6:15 am or after 9:45 pm or involves working in areas such as the warehouse, beers, wines & spirits, counters, bakery and driving roles.

On the occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date in order for us to manage all of the applicants appropriately. We will only be able to offer individual feedback to those candidates who attend an interview.

For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com