Warehouse Operative

Location: LEES’ OF SCOTLAND, COATBRIDGE

Shift: DAY SHIFT, MON – THURS, 06:45 – 15:15, FRI – 06:45 – 14:15

Salary: Between £10.50 - £11.82 (DOE)

We have an exciting opportunities for Warehouse Operatives to join our Warehousing team at our Lees’ of Scotland bakery, based in Coatbridge.

You may know us from our Snowballs, teacakes or meringues, as we’ve been manufacturing confectionery and meringues since 1931 to major retailers across the UK. We employee 250 people at our modern 80,000 square ft factory which is located just outside of Glasgow and is easily accessible by public transport. We’ve joined one of the UK’s leading specialty bakery manufacturer Finsbury Food Group earlier this year who make the bread for your morning toast, the buns, muffins and other treats that turn teatime into quality time and retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes. This is what we do, and why we’re in business. Baking brilliance makes every day special.

To join our Warehouse team, part of the role of a Warehouse Operative will be loading and unloading of vehicles, stock pick and put away within a busy warehouse and transport environment. With the primary objective of meeting business demand and maintaining product specifications whilst ensuring minimum costs. There will be a need to utilise PPT’s and forklift trucks in and around production, warehouse and yard vicinity and previous experience of this would be advantageous, however you will receive inhouse training on this. This is an active role where you'll work towards daily targets and as part of a larger site Team, so clear communications and time management skills are essential.

To be successful in this role, the Warehouse Operatives will have a good work ethic and will be proud of the work they do. They will be able to communicate politely and openly to their teams and managers, to highlight any challenges, ask for support and give support - you are working as part of team. Salary is dependent on your experience you have for the role but offers the opportunity to increase your salary with training.

The culture is friendly, engaging at all levels in the business and we celebrate diversity, which you can see walking around the factory with people smiling and saying “hello”. We don’t tolerate any aggressive or abusive behavior against anyone. It’s our people which makes working at our bakery enjoyable and rewarding and we want that for everyone for works with us.

This is what you’ll actually do!

As a Warehouse Operative you’ll transport pallets of goods to and from the production and warehouse areas. Picking & building orders as per customer requirements, using hand held scanners and loading and unloading of the vehicles.

You will maintain customer product specifications and ensure compliance within the production and warehouse environment. As you’ll gain an understanding of department function within the business and recognise product range & processing methods. Along with being aware of the inter-departmental dependency on final products and have a knowledge of influencing factors.

As a Warehouse Operative you’ll maximise productivity and process flow using a range of processing methods. Comply with the hygiene standards at all times, completing hygiene tasks and associated recording documentation within the warehouse areas. Also ensuring that you follow the company Health & Safety policy and have a diligent approach to such matters within the production and warehouse environment.

We will train and support you in your role, as there will be times where you’ll need to develop skills applicable to specific functions and tasks.

Ideally this is you!

• Able to prioritise varied duties/tasks and accomplish within scheduled deadlines set

• Strong communication skills and good social skills, gets on well with people - you’re part of a team!

• Good work ethic is essential as is reliability and commitment to doing the job

• Have pride in your work and complete a task from start to finish

• FLT Licenses preferred but not essential – we’ll give you training

Our vision is to be the leading specialty 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!