Warehouse Operative Cardiff, Wales
Job description
Location: Cardiff
Shift: 4 on 4 off - Day and Nights available
Salary: Competitive
We have an exciting opportunity to join the Warehouse team in a permanent role as a Warehouse Operative, based at our Memory Lane Cakes site in Cardiff, which is part of the Finsbury Food Group.
Our Memory Lane Cakes site is part of our Cake Division within Finsbury Food Group. They make over 75% of the UK’s sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes. They employ over 850 people on site and the sites runs 24/7, which encompasses a culture of Teamwork, friendly and respectful leadership and a focus on Continuous improvement at all levels.
This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience with one of the UK’s largest bakery businesses, along with great opportunities for growth and development. At Finsbury Food Group, we are passionate about investing in our teams and creating great development opportunities.
This is what you’ll actually do!
As one of our Warehouse Operatives, you’ll be working as part of the wider Warehouse team on-site. You will conduct duties in line with the operation of the warehouse, providing a service to production that is in alignment with their production plans. Receiving goods in, accurately and in a timely manner, ensuring these are stored correctly and issued when and where needed. You will complete all loading of pallets onto the distribution network for finished goods, and manage customer order picks. You will complete cycle counts for warehouse stocks including stock rotation.
We are a fast paced, 24 hour, 7 days a week operation and you may find yourself working to tight deadlines or managing last minute changes to counts or orders. It is essential that all of our Warehouse Operatives have good attention to detail, are enthusiastic and have the drive to get the job done.
As part of your day-to-day you may be required to participate with the following:
- Ensure punctual unloading and departure of vehicles within the agreed deadlines.
- Check and complete all paperwork with accuracy and timing in mind for both internal and external use.
- Picking of orders for Operations or external customers.
- Meet all departmental KPIs.
- Responsible for ensuring you are compliant with Food Safety, Legality and Quality Systems.
- Adhere to and practice all aspects of departmental safety in line with HSAWA1974.
- Ensure clean as you go policy is always adhered to.
- Ensure compliance to GMP
- Monitor tempered butter/chiller stock and keep safety stock at correct level for production.
- Stock Control, ensure rotation of stock to limit low code/out of life liability.
- Continuous improvement.
- Identify and escalate department issues to your supervisor/manager.
- Step up as Supervisor as required in their absence.
- Undertake any other reasonable duties as requested by a supervisor/manager.
Ideally this is you!
- High levels of resilience, self-motivation and flexibility is required.
- Innovative.
- Strong numeracy and literacy skills.
- Experience with multilevel communication.
- Computer literate with Excel and WMS systems experience such as M3 or SAP.
- Knowledge of a warehouse function within a food industry. (Desirable)
- Knowledge of Quadex Technical system. (Desirable)
- Manage teams and performance. (Desirable)
- People management skills. (Desirable)
You will be expected to comply with all company policy including Health & Safety, Security, Hygiene Standards and cleaning schedules ensuring we are consistently compliant in line with Food Safety Standards.
What's in it for you!
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
- Enhanced Pension scheme for our employees
- Death in Service Benefit
- Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
- Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
- Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral - T&Cs dependant)
- Employee Recognition Awards
- Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
- An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!
Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!
