Warehouse Operative / Forklift Driver Birmingham, England
Job description
Your Responsibilities
We are currently looking for a Warehouse Operative to join us here at thyssenkrupp Materials UK! As the Warehouse operative role, you will be picking material from the racks or picking up materials from a machine for customer orders. You may also be required to load or unload vehicles and scan away to a rack location whilst adhering to quality and safety procedures.
Our central warehouse and head office, also known as 'Cox's Lane', is located in the heart of the West Midlands in order to meet all customer demands. We are a Warehouse & Logistics provider, our capabilities include plate, bar and extrusion cutting, guillotining & as well as protective laminating coating.
Your main duties will include:
- Loading and unloading lorries
- Preparing customers' orders
- Racking, stacking and identification of incoming stock
- Checking of incoming and outgoing deliveries for quality and quantity
- Driving forklift trucks when authorised to gather material for the jobs and record all information on job sheets
- Ensuring we have warehouse traceability
- Use appropriate measuring equipment
Your profile
Essential experience, skills and knowledge:
- Counterbalance Forklift Truck licence (currently valid)
- Overhead Crane Licence (currently valid)
- Good organisational skills
- Reliability and dependability
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the job
- Self-motivated
- Flexible and willing to take on a variety of tasks
- Team player
- IT competent for use of scanning system
Your benefits with us
- £22,297.60 per annum
- 40 hours a week Shift Pattern: Mon-Fri Week 1: 6am-2pm. Week 2: 2pm-10pm
- 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
- Company bonus scheme
- Advantageous pension scheme
- Learning & Development opportunities
- Employee high street vouchers & discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Occupational health & health surveillance
- Length of Service Awards
- Christmas savings scheme
- Eye care vouchers
- Wellbeing events
- Recognition Portal
- Rewards Portal
- Company events
- Car Salary Exchange Scheme
- Company share schemes
- Christmas Closedown
This is us – your new employer
With around 480 locations in over 40 countries, thyssenkrupp Materials Services is the biggest materials distributor and service provider in the western world. The broad service spectrum offered by the materials experts enables customers to focus on their individual core business. The area of Materials Services spans two strategic areas: global materials distribution as a one-stop-shop – from steel and stainless steel, tubes and pipes, nonferrous metals and specialty materials to plastics and raw materials – and tailored services in the areas of materials management and supply chain management. An extensive omnichannel architecture offers 250,000 customers worldwide cross-channel, round-the-clock access to more than 150,000 products and services. A highly efficient logistics system ensures that all requested services are smoothly integrated into customer production processes “just-in-time” or “just-in-sequence”.
We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications, irrespective of gender, nationality, ethnic and social background, religion and beliefs, disability, age, or sexual orientation and identity.
Please note that we reserve the right to remove this advert prior to the advertised expiry date, dependent on the level of response received. You are therefore advised to apply at your earliest convenience. Due to the volume of applications we receive, we are unable to supply individual feedback at the CV review stage.
