Warehouse operatives
Location: Derby City Centre near to Pentagon Island
Pay rate: £12.21 per hour, weekly pay every Friday
Hours: Monday to Friday 8:00am-4:00pm
Blue Arrow has a fantastic opportunity for local Warehouse Operatives to work for one of Derby's finest distribution warehouses located close to the Derby City Centre offering ongoing full time work.
If you are looking for a great working atmosphere, fantastic friendly environment, with work close to Derby City Centre then look no further we have the role for you.
As a warehouse operative your new job will involve:
You will be packing items into sets very delicately, due to the fragile products. This role can be repetitive, and manual tasks will be required. You will be required to work on your feet for the duration of your shift, so if you have previous experience using scanners, or can work quickly and precise, and worked to targets previously this would be useful for the role.
- Picking and packing goods quickly and efficiently, while taking great care not to damage any goods.
- Moving pallets using manual pump trucks.
- building flat pack boxes and preparing items for delivery
- labelling products
- Quality checking of products
- Using handheld scanners and paper to pick items, ensuring targets and correct items are picked at a fast pace.
- Working towards targets & deadlines individually and within a team.
- Reporting any issues to the relevant person
- Keeping your workstation clean and tidy to ensure that you can work to the best of your ability.
- Loading and unloading goods from vehicles carefully.
- Wrapping pallets of products and unwrapping.
- Carrying out stock checks using electronic handheld scanners.
- General warehousing duties, which can include general cleaning in and around the warehouse.
The ideal warehouse operative:
- Safety shoes and High Vis vest preferred but not essential as we can provide these for you
- Have experience with electronic devices and can work in a fast pace environments.
- Has had previous warehouse experience- Preferred but not essential.
- Has experience working within a retail/supermarket environment could be advantageous.
- Can attend site and ready for work at your work station by 8am
- Is able to work efficiently whilst working at a quick pace.
- Has a can-do attitude and take pride in their job
- Is hard-working and reliable.
- Is looking for a full time position
- Worked to targets previously
- Happy to work on their feet for 8 hours a day
- Happy to conduct repetitive work
- Used hand held scanners, or paper base picking systems.
- High levels of numeracy and literacy
- Have an eye for detail with accuracy.
- Have great time keeping skills
Why join us:
- Dedicated consultants and a 24/7 phone line
- The chance to join a welcoming friendly team.
- Nomination of superstar of the month
- Free parking on site
- Bike sheds if you want to save on petrol
- Long term contracts - and the opportunity to become permanent
- An extremely well-run company that values all of its employees, an established product line with long standing customer partnerships providing them with constant work.
- You will work in a clean and tidy working environment with a lot of friendly faces around to help and support you in learning the ropes
- Fantastic location for you close to Derby City Centre
- Great opportunities for you to progress and earn some great overtime pay.
Due to the high interest in this position please follow the next steps below rather than calling our branch, as this will be the quickest way for us to respond and assess suitability for this role.
Interested, next steps:
Please can we ask If you have read through the requirements of the role and feel you have the expertise for the role and would like to move forward, click APPLY now, it takes under 10 minutes to apply and complete your registration, and a consultant will be in touch with you to review your application within 72 hours.
Once we have pre-screened your application and completed an interview with one of our consultants. The next steps are attending on of our weekly tours of the factory which will be at 730am, you must be able to attend this first as part of the recruitment process, If successful after this start dates would be offered afterwards
Blue Arrow is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to helping find great work opportunities for great people.
