Job description
Warehouse Operative – Day Shift
£23,974 plus benefits*
£11.82 per hour (£13.60 including weekend premium)
Day Shift – 6am to 2pm
37.5 hours per week, 5 days over 7 including weekends
The Co-operative Retail Logistics, Newhouse CDC401 Edinburgh Road, Newhouse, ML1 5GH.
Please check that you can reliably commute to the depot before you apply.
No experience needed – full training provided!
We’re looking for warehouse operatives at our Newhouse depot.
As a warehouse worker at Co-op, we’ll work with you to build a shift pattern that gives you real work/life balance. You’ll be part of a friendly team – working together to pick and pack the products our customers love, so they can be distributed to stores in our local communities.
It’s an active role where you’ll work towards daily targets so, if you’d welcome the opportunity to get some exercise while you’re on the clock, this could be the right job for you!
Why Co-op
- competitive rates of pay (including additional shift allowances)
- flexibility – we’ll aim to find a shift pattern that works for you
- full training and great career development opportunities
- holidays starting from 31 days per year (including bank holidays)
- 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (increased from 20% to support colleagues during the cost-of-living crisis until March 2023)
- 10% off all other brands in our food stores (increases to 20% on the Friday and Saturday after payday)
- pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
- YuLife – an app that rewards you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for many of the UK’s biggest brands
- free employee assistance programme with extensive health, financial and wellbeing support
- access to credit unions for loans and savings, plus rental deposit loans and season ticket loans
- free eye tests every 2 years
- on-site facilities including a subsidised canteen
- free on-site parking
What you’ll do
- pick stock for store orders across the warehouse (in frozen, chilled, and ambient) using appropriate manual handling equipment
- load and unload delivery vehicles with cages and pallets
- operate machinery on a daily basis
- distribute products to the correct location in the warehouse
- work in a team to achieve key targets
- follow all the depot health and safety procedures
This role would suit people who have
- the ability to comfortably perform manual tasks
- good communication skills
- the ability to work within a team environment
Building an inclusive workplace
We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.
If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.
We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate. You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.
You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.
As part of your application, you’ll need to complete an online assessment. It will take you around 10 minutes to complete this test.
- Salary calculation is based on a 37.5 hour week, working 3 in 4 weekends/45 hours per month. Therefore, earnings could change depending on the shift pattern we agree with you.