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Job Title: Warehouse Operative
Hours: 37.5 hours a week, Mon - Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Salary: £22,000 - £25,000 depending on experience
Location: Milton Keynes

The Role: SMC are looking for an enthusiastic individual who is good at multi-tasking and can motivate themselves plus others around them within a busy warehouse environment. There are multiple sections within the warehouse team from goods receiving, picking, despatch, and the newly added check by weight QC.

Key Responsibilities:

• Loading and unloading delivery vehicles, by hand or with a forklift truck.
• Checking for damaged or missing items and then sorting stock for storage in the warehouse.
• Taking goods to the appropriate storage space perhaps using loading and lifting gear for heavy goods, like washing machines.
• Keeping a careful record of the stock on the warehouse management system, so that it can be located quickly.
• Operating a forklift truck to move and rearrange stock and ensure that products are stored safely (especially chemicals and food) and labelled correctly and safely (especially chemicals and food).
• Picking orders using a hand-held scanner from the storage space and bringing them for packing, or to the loading bay for transportation.
• Organising transfers and loading goods on to delivery vehicles.
• Cleaning and maintaining the warehouse will also be part of the daily routine.
• With heavy equipment in operation warehouses can be dangerous places, so following workplace health and safety rules will be essential.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Good time management
• Ability to work with speed
• Good attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work with a team
• Enjoys working a collaborative and vibrant warehouse environment

What We Offer: The reason for our success is our people. Every team member has a voice, and this contributes to our successes as a company!

We take pride in our collaborative, innovative and customer-focused culture where team members feel respected, empowered and valued.

We are continuously working to make our team even more diverse and inclusive. We welcome applications from all and are committed to attracting, recruiting and retaining the most talented individuals.

SMC has sustainable development goals as we believe in caring for our futures as well as the future of the planet.

Rewards and Benefits:

• Free lunches from onsite canteen.
• Pension scheme
• 25 days holiday
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Private Medical Cover
• Cycle to work scheme
• SMC rewards and benefits portal including retail discounts
• Ongoing training and development

The Selection Process:
Upon application, candidates will be asked to undertake some online testing followed by a first and second interview which takes place on site at our offices.