Warehouse Assistant Alfreton, England
Job description
Location: Lincoln House Factory, Alfreton, DE55 4QQ
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time. 39 hours per week.
Shifts: This role will operate on our afternoon shift - Monday to Thursday 2.00pm to 12.20am.
Salary: £21,294 per annum
A bit about the role
We're looking for a Warehouse Assistant to join our fast paced manufacturing team at our Lincoln House Factory manufacturing site on a Permanent basis. A Warehouse Assistant is a role to start building a rewarding career and making yourself at DFS. You will play an important role in ensuring either raw materials are readily available and unloaded from our inbound logistics teams or making sure that manufactured products are loaded safely and in a timely manner for our dispatch teams to deliver to our customer distribution network.
You will learn the processes of the factory and the materials that are needed to manufacture our furniture. This role will require you to ensure that materials and products are available throughout our factory so will require a lot of manual lifting and stamina.
No previous experience is required, just a desire to succeed and a willingness to learn.
What we're looking for
This role really suits people who enjoy working in a fast paced environment and are capable of a lot of manual handling and heavy lifting.
We're in your corner
We want you to really feel at home at DFS, with the support you need to do your best work, as well as a range of great benefits:
- Overtime paid at a time and a third
- A huge 30% colleague discount, plus 15% friends & family discount across our Group (DFS, Sofology, Dwell)
- Holiday allowance – the time you need to rest and relax (and the longer you’re with us, the more time you’ll get!)
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave to give you the time you need to settle in with your new family member
- Access to a range of high street & online discounts from: Sainsbury’s, ASOS, Currys PC World, IKEA, John Lewis and more.
- Discounted Gym and Cinema memberships to help you unwind
- Progression and Development opportunities to grow your skills
- Group Pension Scheme
- Group Sharesave Scheme
- Life Assurance & Company Sick Pay
Make yourself at home
It takes a whole lot of passion to be at the centre of what makes a house feel like home — and that’s just what we do at DFS. We’re the leading sofa retail specialist in the UK, helping people find a comfy seat on great quality sofas since 1969.
We're a market leader in the UK because of one thing: our people. Our people made us who we are and will drive us into our ambitious future, together. We offer incredible opportunities to get stuck into fun and meaningful work as well as learn new skills — so you can really ‘find your thing’.
Are you ready to make yourself at DFS?
Ready to make yourself at DFS? Click ‘Apply online’ now to fill in an application form — with you in our corner, we just know we’ll do great things together.
[All roles are subject to satisfactory references and DBS check.]
We're an equal opportunities employer
We’re a family of individuals passionate about building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We love to celebrate and encourage our people to be their true selves. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital state, or disability status. Everyone is welcome!
Job Reference: DFS03106
