Job Title: Warehouse Operative
Location: Watford – Unit 7a, Odhams Trading Estate, St Albans Road, Watford, WD24 7RY
Salary: £22k-23k
Job Type: Full Time – 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday 09:30 to 18:00 with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break.
About Vegetarian Express:
Vegetarian Express specialise in delivering plant-based ingredients, ideas and inspiration to chefs across the UK for eating out of home.
With the astronomical rise in popularity of plant-based, vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian diets, Vegetarian Express are uniquely placed in Foodservice to meet with this demand, and as such are rapidly growing and expanding.
Nationally they supply more than 4000 skilled chefs from customers such as Compass, Baxterstorey and Hilton, as well as a ton of Independent operators. Vegetarian Express work with customers to create plant-based menus that are enticing, better for consumers health, the planet and commercially for businesses.
Vegetarian Express have also now launched a direct to consumer side to their business, delivering chef quality plant-based based ingredients direct to people’s homes.
Vegetarian Express are proud to be a certified B Corporation. This means they are part of a growing number of progressive businesses around the world that truly believe in the power of business to do good things and, more importantly, are doing something about it.
Main purpose of role:
To ensure that goods are moved in and out of our warehouse in accordance with operational and our customers’ needs and are correctly handled whilst within the warehouse’s care. Maintaining safe working practices whilst on site.
Key Job Responsibilities:
- To ensure that you pick and pack to customer level ensuring all goods are picked accurately and efficiently aligned to the business KPI. Maintain all the relevant paperwork required during the shift.
- To ensure that when you deal with the receipt of, handling of, and dispatch of products into and out of our warehouse are dealt correctly and in accordance with procedures.
- To follow the correct procedures, and ensuring that safe working practices are followed and aligned to the company Health and Safety policy.
- To ensure that the correct fresh and ambient products are picked for customers’ orders, correctly packed and dispatched to the customers on the correct date and that the relevant paperwork is completed and procedures followed.
- To ensure that fresh, frozen and ambient stock received is received in a correct condition (temperature, damages etc.), is put away in the correct location, booked in correctly in accordance with procedures and is rotated correctly.
- To keep all areas of the warehouse, fridges and freezers tidy.
- To communicate with your manager and stock controllers if there are issues and problems as soon as possible to help make the resolution of issues easier.
- To carry out stock counts for the stock controllers and other counts as required on an ad-hoc basis.
- To suggest improvements to the company’s purchasing and warehousing systems as appropriate and to implement agreed changes in systems.
- To undertake any other duties as appropriate within their competency as required by their line manager
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 3 GCSE’s (or equivalent) at grade C or above, including Maths and English
- Full UK driving licence (no more than 6 points)
- Fork Lift Truck Licence (ESSENTIAL)
- Food Hygiene Certificate
Essential Skills/competencies/knowledge/experience:
- Excellent attention to detail
- Previous Warehouse experience
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Excellent communication skills
- Computer Literate
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Stores Manager, Warehouse Manager, Supply Chain Administrator, Dispatch Manager, Warehouse Coordinator, Warehouse Supervisor, Warehouse Operative, Goods Inwards Warehouse Operative, Warehouse Team Leader, Warehouse, Process Operative, Goods Outwards Operative, Dispatch Operative, Supply Chain Operative and Warehouse Worker may also be considered for this role
