Porter

Alliance Healthcare UK; Coatbridge; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare distribution company is looking for a Porter in Coatbridge. The role includes accurately distributing orders, loading vehicles, and adhering to health and safety regulations. Ideal candidates should have a flexible approach to work and good communication skills. This position offers competitive benefits such as a pension scheme and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive Pension scheme

Career training and development opportunities

Employee Assistance programme

Cycle to work scheme

Charity days for events

Qualifications

• Previous warehouse experience is desirable.
• Committed to working in a hazard-free environment.

Responsibilities

• Accurately check orders from drop sheets according to procedures.
• Ensure orders are allocated to the correct route and stored properly.
• Load vehicles safely as per instructions.

Skills

Flexible and adaptable approach to work

Ability to work under pressure

Good visual accuracy

Good numeracy skills

Strong communication skills

Job description

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Job Details

Job Title: Porter
Location: Coatbridge, ML5 5AW
Hours per week: 9 hours per week (Saturday 6 - 10am, Sunday 9am - 2pm).
Hourly rate: £12.54
Supporting Cencora's wholesale distribution services in Europe through Alliance Healthcare.

About The Company

Alliance Healthcare (Cencora) is a leading distributor and wholesaler of pharmaceutical, medical, and healthcare products, serving over 17,000 pharmacies, hospitals, and dispensing doctors throughout the United Kingdom. We play a significant role in the medical supply chain and everything we do has a direct impact on the patient. As part of Cencora, we are ideally placed to help you grow and develop your career as far as you want to go. Our diversity and inclusion vision is to create a culture where we value the differences that a diverse workplace brings, powering greater collaboration and innovation.

Job Purpose

To accurately distribute orders to the correct routes and ensure this is done safely, along with any other requests required by management.

Responsibilities

• Accurately checking orders / totes from drop sheets paying special attention to route, according to procedures.
• Ensure orders / totes are allocated to pallet / route cage.
• Prioritise orders / totes by route departure time.
• Loading vehicles as per instructions, ensuring that all bins, boxes, bags are loaded in the vehicle in a safe manner.
• Ensuring all loads are secure, following the correct load security processes.
• Ensuring all pallets and cages are stored correctly and bins, boxes, bags are stacked in a safe manner.
• Ensure all Health & Safety regulations are adhered to.
• Any other tasks required by management.
• Ensuring empty totes are sorted correctly.

Requirements

• Flexible and adaptable approach to work.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to communicate well with others.
• Good visual accuracy, numeracy and communication skills.
• Committed to working in a hazard-free, world class health and safety environment.
• Previous Warehouse experience is desirable.

Top 5 Benefits Working With Us

• Competitive Pension scheme where the company matches your contribution and can include death in service benefit.
• Career training, development and various internal progression opportunities, such as forklift truck licence, forum representatives, and working in other departments.
• Employee Assistance programme with free legal and financial advice as well as mental health counselling and access to trained Mental Health First Aiders at work.
• Access to Cycle to work scheme and Perks at Work, with discounts at various retailers such as Currys, Samsung, HelloFresh and more.
• Charity days for events such as Children in Need and fun activities all year-round.

Accommodation and Manual Handling

Due to the nature of the role, you will need to be capable of standing and walking for long periods of time as well as carrying out manual handling activities in line with our Health and Safety standards. Whilst Alliance Healthcare is committed to developing positive policies to promote equal opportunities in employment, we have a duty of care to ensure we do not instigate or worsen any conditions that would prevent the employee from carrying out manual handling duties. On that basis, for this role we cannot make "reasonable adjustments" for any applicant who is unable to carry out such duties. If you are unsure as to whether this applies to your application, you must detail on your application form and discuss at interview any information you feel may be relevant.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law. The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory. Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email [e-mail]. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned.

Find out more information about us at: https://www.alliance-healthcare.co.uk/

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