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Forklift Driver Warehouse Operative
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Macfarlane Group Plc, Darn Hill, Rochdale
- Remote working
- Full time
- Permanent
Posted 2 days ago, 12 Mar
Job ref: 162796aa05d34c82a540acfd9c590c7d
Full Job Description
Warehouse Operative Key Responsibilities
- Accept supplier deliveries, ensuring accurate receipt and appropriate storage. Inspect incoming shipments against purchase orders and organize items efficiently.
- Participate in daily team communications to align on priorities and clarify tasks.
- Pick, load, and dispatch goods accurately and promptly, following order fulfilment procedures. Retrieve, verify, and securely package items to prevent transit damage.
- Moving stock around warehouse using FLTs (counterbalance & Pivot Steer/bendi)
- Optimize picking methods for efficiency, factoring in order volume and priority.
- Record and store incoming goods precisely, verifying quantities and inspecting for damage. Coordinate with departments to resolve any discrepancies.
- Process customer or supplier returns per company policies, inspecting and documenting items for restocking or other actions.
- Support stock counts and inventory audits to maintain accurate records and sufficient stock levels.
- Maintain high customer service standards when interacting with suppliers and customers, ensuring prompt, accurate information on orders and availability.
- Collaborate with Sales to meet customer delivery schedules, communicating potential delays or issues as needed.
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations, reporting non-compliance, as necessary.
- Uphold health, safety, and ISO standards by identifying and addressing safety concerns.
What you will bring
The successful applicant will meet with the following criteria…
Minimum one year experience of working within a busy warehouse environment
- Valid Forklift licences (please note Counterbalance is essential whereas Pivot Steer ('Bendi') would also be highly advantageous
- Demonstrable track record of reliability in relation to goods in/out orientated role
- Proven team player with flexible approach and strong work ethic
- Good grasp of general health & safety legislation/best practice and manual handling
- Sound communication skills both verbal and written
- Satisfactory level of basic maths & English ideally evidence by GCSE grades A-C
Desirable:
- Experience in prior role of close inter-department working (i.e. with sales/purchasing departments)
- Prior experience of working with diverse and multiple product lines of stock
- Experience of working within a fast-paced environment with the ability to prioritise tasks
Package: Basic salary up to £29,000 (dependent on experience) bonus & flexible benefits package including up to 27 days holiday(plus bank holidays & additional annual leave purchasing scheme)
Hours: 45 hours Monday-Friday 9:30am to 7:00pm
Sector: Packaging distribution
Protecting what matters, together
We're dedicated to protecting what matters most - our people, our customers, our communities, and the environment. At Macfarlane Packaging, our commitment to customer satisfaction, sustainability and continual improvement creates a highly collaborative, supportive, and friendly workplace where you can unpack a career that grows.
With history stretching back over 75 years, we offer stability whilst always striving for continual growth. Our fast-paced, results-driven approach will challenge and often stretch you, but it will also give you opportunities for personal and professional development. Every colleague has the chance to directly influence our success, leading to real job satisfaction and achievement, at all stages of your career.
We provide competitive pay and personalised incentives, alongside adaptable benefits to make your rewards package go further. And additionally, the way we work prioritises work-life balance and flexibility, empowering our colleagues to manage what is most important to them. Our business values commitment, diligence, teamwork, adaptability, and a thirst for learning… so if this sounds like you, come and join us to help drive change that enables businesses to plan for a better future., We provide a competitive basic starting salary and operate a range of rewarding bonus/incentive schemes. Our flexible employee benefits package can include: -
- 25 days annual leave (rising to 27 days with service) plus all public/bank holidays
- Additional Holiday purchasing scheme (run annually)
- Contributory pension scheme
- Free parking at the majority of our site locations
- Annual (company paid) volunteering day
- Employee assistance program to support & advise with well-being & any issues
- Extensive range of training/development & potential progression opportunities
- Employee discount scheme (discounts on several major retail/leisure brands)
- Simply Health/Dental Cover option or BUPA cover for qualifying roles
- Enhanced HR policies relating to various employee rights & entitlements
- Long service awards (5-40 years)
- Charitable giving options
- Financial support with eye-tests/purchasing glasses (DSE users only)
- O2 Mobile discount scheme (up to 25% off)
- Candidate referral scheme (awards £750 for referring successful applicants to Macfarlane job vacancies)
Your future with us
Here at Macfarlane Group, you truly have the potential to shape your own future and set your own ambitions. We are a large group company where internal promotion and mobility is a key feature of our success. Through tailored career plans, we provide a wide range of structure training & development pathways, utilizing both inhouse expertise to share knowledge and the best-in-class external training partners. There is potential access to management & leadership development, and we work closely with recognized, accredited bodies including the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM); So there really are no limits to where your journey within Macfarlane Group may take you.
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