We have an exciting opportunity to join our Operations team as a Warehouse Operative (Nights). We are looking for a strong team player to ensure that goods are moved in and out of our warehouse in accordance with operational and our customers' needs and are correctly handled whilst within the warehouse's care.
Salary: £28,500 (OTE - £30,300, £150 per month discretionary bonus based on role KPI's)
Location: Watford - Unit 7a, Odhams Trading Estate, St Albans Road, Watford, WD24 7RY - You must live within 30 minutes commutable distance
Hours of work: Full Time - 40 hours per week,, Sunday to Thursday
Key job responsibilities:
* Assisting Warehouse Operatives and the Warehouse Manager in ensuring all goods are picked accurately and efficiently aligned to the business' KPI. Maintaining all the relevant paperwork required during the shift.
* Dealing with the receipt of, handling of, and dispatch of products in and out of our warehouse, ensuring that they are dealt with correctly and in accordance with procedures.
* To follow the correct procedures ensuring that safe working practices are followed and aligned to the company's Health and Safety policy.
In cooperation with Warehouse Operatives and on the instruction of the Warehouse Manager:
* ensuring that the correct fresh and ambient products are picked for customers' orders, correctly packed and dispatched to customers on the correct date and that the relevant paperwork is completed and procedures followed.
* ensuring that fresh, frozen and ambient stock received is received in the correct condition (temperature, damages etc.), is put away in the correct location, booked in and is rotated correctly.
* keeping all areas of the warehouse clean and tidy.
* carrying out stock counts for the stock controllers and other counts as required on an ad-hoc basis.
* To communicate any issues with your line manager and/or Stock Controllers to allow for a quick resolution.
* To suggest improvements to the company's purchasing and warehousing system and to implement agreed changes in systems.
* To undertake any other duties as appropriate within their competency as required by their line manager.
Full training and support will be provided.
What do you need?
* Full UK driving license (to move company vans around the yard during shift)
* Previous experience within a warehouse environment
* Forklift Truck license (desirable)
* Good communication skills
* Attention to detail
* Ability to work under pressure
* Courteous
* Must be 18 years of age or older to comply with our insurance requirements
* May have to lift heavy products and be capable of climbing in and out of the company vehicles
* Must be comfortable working at low temperatures in the cold store
Who are we?
Vegetarian Express specialise in delivering plant-based ingredients, ideas and inspiration to chefs across the UK for eating out of home. With the astronomical rise in popularity of plant-based, vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian diets, Vegetarian Express are uniquely placed in Foodservice to meet with this demand, and as such are rapidly growing and expanding.
Nationally they supply more than 4,000 skilled chefs from customers such as Compass and CH&Co, as well as a ton of Independent operators. Vegetarian Express work with customers to create plant-based menus that are enticing, better for consumers health, the planet and commercially for businesses.
Vegetarian Express are proud to be a certified B Corporation. This means they are part of a growing number of progressive businesses around the world that truly believe in the power of business to do good things and, more importantly, are doing something about it.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £28,500.00 per year
Benefits:
* Company events
* Company pension
* Free parking
* Life insurance
* On-site parking
Application question(s):
* Do you hold a valid Forklift Truck license?
* Do you hold a full UK driving license?
Work Location: In person