Warehouse & Logistics Assistant

We are looking to recruit in our warehouse/logistics department at our head site. We are looking for a highly motivated individual, to join our team that wants variation in their daily workload and to take on a hands-on responsibility approach. It will be key to be flexible and the ideal candidate would exhibit strong experience in delivering a good service to both internal and external customers. We are a Marine Livestock business and as such time is critical to our shipments, as is the quality and care of our goods in transit. This individual will cover multiple tasks in both areas in the warehouse and logistic area and should have good experience with customer service skills, performing warehouse duties and driving vans.

Brief Job Description

A key part of the role is the weekly collection and delivery of our marine animals and dry goods from Heathrow airport to our head office in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire. You could be dealing with all aspects of collections from the airport and out making deliveries to our customers on our assigned courier runs. You will also be assisting with any daily warehouse tasks from time to time when required.

Key responsibilities include:

• Airport deliveries and collections of livestock, including dealing with necessary paperwork.

• Inter-site deliveries and collections

• Local / non-local customer and supplier deliveries and collections

• Operation of our Counterbalance Forklift Trucks

• Demands of the role and livestock business may require the successful candidate to be flexible with start and finish times.

• warehouse duties like picking, packing and stock taking

Key skills required include:

• Willingness to get involved, take ownership, and work on your own initiative is important.

• Hands on approach to tasks and situations

• Flexibility to adapt to sudden changes

• Work to deadlines and manage critical pinch points, so that our livestock arrives as quickly as possible

• Positive ‘can do’ attitude to get the job done

• Excellent customer service

• Ability to communicate professionally, in the best interests of the company

• Full clean driving Licence (essential)

• Aquatic experience and product knowledge (advantageous)

• FLT – Counterbalance (advantageous)

Job Types: Full-time, Temp to perm
Contract length: 12 months

Salary: From £22,300.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 20/06/2023