Warehouse Operative – Travel Required

First Home Improvements; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 17,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension scheme

30 days holiday incl Bank Holidays

Discounts on company products

Line manager support with training

Job summary

First Home Improvements is seeking a Warehouse Operative to support our window and door depots across the UK. You will ensure products are ready for dispatch, perform quality checks, and manage stock data with accuracy.

The role involves loading/unloading deliveries, assisting drivers, and maintaining site health and safety standards. The ideal candidate will be based near Newbury, Basingstoke, Farnborough or Reading, with willingness to travel nationwide and stay away overnight when required.

Qualifications

• Experience in window and door industry products.
• Experience in the construction industry.
• Well organised with attention to detail.
• Ability to meet deadlines and adapt to changing priorities.
• Physical stamina is required.
• Basic IT skills and ability to learn database input processes.

Responsibilities

• Taking control of deliveries: Check and enter product deliveries into the database and allocate items to a job number.
• Quality control: Check sizes and quality of frames, glass and other items; email the order processor for missing items; remake reports where needed.

Skills

Window & door knowledge

Frame & roof manufacturing knowledge

Construction experience

Organised

Time management

Team player

Physical stamina

IT skills

Good oral communication

Can-do attitude

Tools

Inventory databases

Database input systems

Job description

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

Main Purpose of Role

This role requires travel across the UK to our Basildon, Crawley, Portsmouth, Newbury & Bristol Depots. Overnight stays may also be required.

The ideal candidate will be based in Newbury, Basingstoke, Farnborough or Reading due to being central for all depots. Other locations may be considered.

The warehouse based role is 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 must have a Full UK Driving Licence due to daily travel.
• 30 days paid annual holiday (including Bank Holidays) that increases with service years
• Christmas - New Year close down
• Company Pension Scheme
• Discounts on company products
• Line manager support with training opportunities