Job Title: Warehouse Operative
Location: Milton Keynes
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full Time – Permanent. 4 on 4 off, Nights 1800-0600.
About Us:
At Gosh! we’re obsessed with real food – back to basics, natural, great tasting food. Gifted from Mother Nature, gently processed and given back to consumers in a convenient format.
Too many foods are highly processed and are slowly harming us … and the environment.
We take our responsibility as manufacturers seriously and are striving to help influence change for good.
Gosh is on an exciting journey to help even more consumers lead a healthier plant-based diet! We are passionate about turning simple vegetables and pulses into super tasty food with no added nasties!
An agile and entrepreneurial culture, with big business support under the ownership of Sonae, we have ambitious plans for growth within the plant based category.
Sonae are a multi-national business, present in 60 countries and leader in food retail in their home country under the brand Continente.
The Role:
Reporting to a Team Leader, you will be expected to demonstrate flexibility and capability to perform all aspects of warehousing in order to meet all key performance indicators and exceed customer expectations.
Main Responsibilities:
Operations:
- Assisting with the unloading of vehicles and the checking in of stock.
- Checking load for damaged or missing items upon receipt.
- Moving and arranging goods in the designated areas / racks.
- Collecting items from throughout the warehouse, preparing and completing warehouse orders for delivery or pickup according to a schedule.
- Performing warehouse inventory controls via scanner and or through a computer.
- Stock counting and location checks.
- Loading goods onto trucks for distribution.
- Operating machinery and equipment as required for the above activity.
- Assisting with the achievement of production targets.
- Minimising production costs.
- Minimising wastage.
Quality, Food Safety & Hygiene:
- Complying with Company hygiene policies and procedures when undertaking operations while maintaining high standards of personal hygiene.
- Reporting any unsafe practices which could affect food safety.
Health & Safety:
- Ensure conduct and behaviour to be compliant with Health & Safety legislation and guidelines.
- Working in a safe manner with due consideration for personal Health & Safety and that of co-workers at all times.
- Reporting any unsafe working practices.
Learning & Development:
- Attending Company Training courses/sessions which will support your continuous personal development to ensure our manufacturing capability keeps pace with or exceeds our customer requirements. It will cover; food quality, food safety, health & safety and other aspects of competence required by legislation.
- Following information and instruction to the best of your ability.
Teamwork:
- Functioning to the best of your ability within the production team, treating other members of staff with dignity and respect.
Other:
- Communicating effectively with co-workers and Management.
- Complete all necessary paperwork accurately.
- Complete all necessary paperwork accurately and operate IT systems as required and in line with legislation.
- Ensure correct handling of customers products is carried out at all stages within the facility.
- Carrying out operational tasks as requested in order to achieve departmental and site objectives.
- Any other duties as required to fulfil the company needs.
Skills and Experience required
- Attention to detail.
- Flexible, willingness and positive attitude to take on a variety of tasks.
- Self-motivated.
- Shows initiative.
- Team player.
- Good communicator.
- Respectful of others.
- Reach and counterbalance license.
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the job.
- PC literate and numerate with good communication skills.
- Experience of working in a food manufacturing environment is desirable.
- Counterbalance and Reach Truck desirable but full training will be provided to the right candidate.
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Warehouse Operative, Warehouse Person, Warehouse Coordinator, Goods Inwards Warehouse Operator, Warehouse Assistant, Warehouse, Process Operative, Processing Assistant, Processing Coordinator, Line Operative, Production Operative, Servicing Operative, Forklift Licence, Driver, Warehouse Driver may also be considered for this role.
