Job Description

Job Title:
Warehouse Assistant

Salary:
Dependent on experience – we are more interested in attitude and someone willing to learn.

Job Purpose:
Your responsibilities include day-to-day order picking and fulfilment, dispatch management, checking and putting away deliveries, and ensuring the organisation of the warehouse is well-kept.

Department/Location:
Kelvedon, Essex

Hours of Work:
Monday-Friday 8.30am-5pm

Main Responsibilities:

• Assisting with regular stock takes to help maintain inventory accuracy.
• Ensure delivered goods are checked, signed for, and put away correctly.
• Pick goods against the customer delivery note – then dispatch via a pallet, carrier, post, or our own vehicles, depending on weight, bulk, and locality.
• Load the vehicles for the next round of delivery runs, ensuring the appropriate vehicles are used depending on the weight and bulk of the total dispatch.
• Ensuring the warehouse is kept tidy and organised at all times.
• Adhere to health and safety regulations at all times.

Person Specification:

Essential Skills:

• Attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Ability to work independently but also work well with others.
• Great sense of humour.
• Willing to get stuck into anything and learn new skills (most crucial in an SME business).

Desired Skills:

• Driving Licence – the premises are in a remote area with no access to public transport, so being able to get here is essential.
• Forklift licence.

Personal Qualities:

• Willingness to undertake training and expand skills.
• Has the motivation and drive to get stuck into anything and learn new skills – we want our staff to be long-term so we promote within.
• Great sense of humour – we are a friendly bunch who believe the workplace should be a happy place to work, so it’s important you are able to fit in.

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary + bonuses.
• Opportunities for promotion – we reward those who are an asset to the business and we want them to stay.
• Free on-site parking.
• Bank holidays and weekends off, no night shifts.
• Social company events throughout the year.
• Company pension.