Warehouse Assistant

Vacancy ref: AD55
Vacancy: Warehouse Assistant
Location: Normanton, West Yorkshire
Working hours: Monday to Friday 7am - 3:30pm
Salary: £25,900 per annum, full time permanent position
Our client, in the Normanton area of Wakefield, is looking for an experienced Warehouse Assistant to join a small team of staff in their business.
This location is the northern hub of a London based company that looks after delivery of their products to the Midlands and north of the UK.
The warehouse assistant will work in conjunction with the warehouse manager and supervisor and will be responsible for:

• Daily activities of the warehouse, including management of the workspace, logistics, deliveries, and customer service.
  
• Providing good customer service to any customer visiting the warehouse for collections
  
• Look after all inbound deliveries including stock control, quality control, unload containers, unload pallet deliveries
  
• Look after all outbound deliveries ensuring goods are picked, packed and loaded ready for delivery
  
• Loading vehicles in a manner that allows the driver to unload in a logistical manner
  
• Order picking and wrapping, labelling, and shipping
  
• Responsible for quality control and ensure that no damaged products are sent to customers
  
• Ensure all orders are delivered on time
  
• Adhere to all warehousing and handling legislation requirements.
  
• Manage stock control and reconcile with data storage system.
  
• Cleaning and maintaining work area and machinery
  
• Maintain standards of health and safety, hygiene and security in the work environment.
  
• Operate machinery such as Fork Lift Truck (reach) or Pallet Trucks other similar items where required to safely move goods around.
  
• Liaising with staff and managers to ensure that the above tasks are completed efficiently
  Requirement:
  
• 2-4 years previous warehouse experience preferred
  
• FLT licence preferred but not essential
  
• Good communication, organisational, time management mathematical skills
  
• Dependable and Reliable
  
• Inventory, Equipment maintenance, data entry and computer skills may be required
  
• Comfortable with manual handling or large and heavy products
  A solid career history in warehouse operations is required with current or recent warehouse experience.
  The ideal candidate will have great initiative, happy to work in a small team, be punctual and reliable and be capable of working in a physical role.
  All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
  Rhodium Consulting Ltd is a niche recruitment consultancy specialising in wholesalers, merchants and distributors within the building products sector. We strive to be the industry leader in delivering the highest calibre of candidates to our client companies, whilst enhancing the careers of our candidates.
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