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The Rowan Organisation
Warehouse Operative
Job summary
A leading food manufacturing company in the UK is seeking an enthusiastic Warehouse Operative to join their team. The role involves the movement of products and packaging using powered pallet trucks, ensuring the packhouse is cleared at the end of shifts. Candidates should have experience in a similar position and possess strong communication skills. The job offers a competitive hourly rate of £12.21 and various benefits including a pension scheme and generous holiday allowance.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Experience in a similar role.
- Good communication, literacy, and numeracy skills.
- Experience working with scanner systems is desirable.
Responsibilities
- Undertake the movement of products and packaging using powered pallet trucks.
- Ensure all produce and pallets are cleared and returned to the correct storage area.
- Carry out routine inspections of the truck and return to the charging bay.
Skills
Tools
We are looking for an enthusiastic Warehouse Operative to join us in order to enhance our Warehouse team. The purpose of this role is to undertake the movement of product, packaging, and other materials through the operation utilising powered pallet trucks (PPT), Reach & Counterbalance forklift trucks, including vehicle unloading, put away, movement to the packhouse, packed product movement to consolidation/marshalling and vehicle loading. Towards the end of your shift, you’ll ensure that all produce, packaging, trays, and pallets are cleared from the packhouse and returned to the correct storage area. Emptying bins, removing containers for a waste product, recycling, and taking unrecyclable packaging to the compactor area are also within your remit. By complying with our pre‑shift check routine, you’ll be responsible for carrying out routine inspections of your truck and returning it to the charging bay, ready for the next day.
- Experience in a similar role.
- Good communication, literacy, and numeracy skills.
- Experience in working with scanner systems (desirable).
- Self‑motivated with a can‑do attitude.
- A Reach, Counter Balance, and PPT truck license (desirable).
- 6.6 weeks holiday per annum, inclusive of public holidays.
- Pension scheme.
- Company share scheme.
- Free parking on site.
- Medicash.
- Death in service benefit.
- Enhanced family‑friendly leave.
- 4 on 2 off shift pattern to include weekend working on a rota basis (47 hours per week) with a shift start time of 5:45 am until 4:45 pm.
- £12.21 per hour.
- Entry level
- Full‑time
- Management and Manufacturing
- Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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