Job Title: Warehouse Operative
Location: Nantgarw, Cardiff
Salary: £21,500 – £23,000 DOE
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time
Biocatalysts develop and manufacture speciality enzymes from small to large scale quantities for a variety of industries such as food, flavor, fragrance, life science, pharma and fine chemicals. We are the only company offering a rapid, low-cost speciality enzyme service from discovery phase through to global shipment of regulatory compliant enzymes.
About the Role:
As a Warehouse Operative, you will be responsible for receiving deliveries of products, storage, material handling, stock management, packaging and despatching of products whilst ensuring high standards of cleanliness and efficiencies within the warehouse.
Key Result Areas:
- On time despatch of products, services and samples
- Stock Accuracy
- GMP Compliance
Need to know:
- Warehousing operations
- Safe manual and material handling
- Operate mechanical handling equipment/fork truck licence (counter balance)
- MRP system
- Work in accordance with Food safety, GMP, Quality & EHS Management system
Key Activities:
- Packaging of liquid and powder blended products for despatch
- Ensure finalised product packaging and labelling is compliant with customer requirements in accordance with work instructions
- Loading and unloading of goods
- Manage goods received and booking in raw materials
- Stock maintenance and accuracy
- Packaging of samples
- Housekeeping activities for warehouse and grounds to ensure a clean and safe working environment
- Perform other warehousing activities as required
- Work in accordance with Food safety, GMP, Quality Management system
- Carry out the responsibilities stated in the Managing Director’s Health & Safety
- Policy, in particular those detailed in paragraph 8d of the Management Directive
- Be conversant with and adopt the procedures stated in the Environmental Management System (EMS) Manual and it’s supporting documents
About you:
Qualifications / Education / Training:
- 2 GCSE’s Grades A-C including Maths & English OR equivalent OR NVQ (L3) in Process or Manufacturing Operations or similar
- Fork lift training certificate
- Working at height (Desirable)
Experience:
- Following Standard Operating Procedures
- Manual handling
- Working in a food manufacturing environment (Desirable)
- Working in controlled areas e.g. GMP, Clean room (Desirable)
- Quality, Environmental, Health & Safety Management systems (Desirable)
Knowledge:
- Food Safety and HACCP
- GMP (Desirable)
Skills & Competencies:
- Flexibility – Ability to alter behaviour and opinions in the light of new information or changing situations
- High Quality Work on Time – The focus on delivering quality and continuous improvement
- Results driven – The desire to get things done well and the ability to set and meet challenging goals, create own measures of excellence and constantly seeks ways of improving performance
- Planning & Organising – The ability to decide on courses of action, ensuring that the resources required to implement the action will be available and scheduling the programme of work required to achieve a defined end-result
- Team work – the ability to work co-operatively and flexibly with other members of the team with a full understanding of the role to be played as a team member
- Communication – the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively, orally or in writing
Personal Attributes:
- Flexible approach to working outside normal hours to meet business demands
- Communicate in a friendly and positive way
- Enthusiastic approach and willingness to learn
- Proactive
- Passion for continuous improvement
- Practical and ‘hands on’
- Attention to detail
Other:
- IT Skills (MS Office) – Intermediate level (Desirable)
If you are someone who is practical, ‘hands on’ with a flexible, ‘can-do’ attitude, analytical, and driven to get things to the highest quality, please click on the APPLY button where you’ll be redirected to the careers page to complete your application.
Candidates with experience 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.
