Warehouse Operative - Kettering, United Kingdom - Navara Oat Milling Ltd

Description

Would you enjoy being part of a busy warehouse environment undertaking varied tasks?

Would you like to feel valued, work within an energetic and passionate team, in a business driven by quality and service? Then you could be exactly what we are looking for.

Situated in the heart of the Northamptonshire at Kettering, we are privileged to operate from one of Europe's largest, state of the art, purpose-built oat milling facilities.

At Navara Oat Milling we are dedicated oat millers focused on growing, sourcing and milling the best quality British oats in a sustainable way.

Oats are growing in popularity as they are a nutritious and versatile food ingredient widely used in cereals, bakery and biscuit production as well as in the beverages and cosmetics sectors.

This fantastic opportunity is pivotal to the development of this newly established company, providing an opportunity of being part of the company commissioning team and then moving forward into a shift pattern.

Role Overview:

At Navara Oat Milling we are dedicated oat millers focused on growing, sourcing and milling the best quality British oats in a sustainable way.

This position is varied and will be a flexible role operating between managing the automatic packaging system operation and all warehouse duties, including the loading of vehicles for despatch and receipting and storing goods received.

The material handler will be responsible for the efficient operation of a high capacity automatic packing system for the production of bags, typically 25kg and big bags, typically 1000kg of oat mill products.

The finished products will then be stored appropriately and when required loaded for despatch.

All duties from receipt of finished product from the production area, the receipt of packaging and other consumables, stock counting activities through to carefully ensuring that all put aways are allocated in correct locations/departments to ensure that customer expectations and delivery OTIF is achieved in accordance with the supply chain KPI's and standards.

This role is of a physical nature and with the varied accountabilities flexibility and adaptability is a must.


Key Behaviours and Skills:

• Experience of working in warehouse and automatic packing environment. Food manufacturing experience beneficial but not essential
• Able to demonstrate operating in a values led business focused on people and service to customers
• Experience of working in a safe way and supportive of colleagues as required
• Able to demonstrate working with high standards of housekeeping
• Clean As You Go
• Ability to undertake individual and team responsibility and accountability whilst delivering efficient and high quality service/product
• Be able to demonstrate flexibility, reliability and enthusiasm for the role
• In possession of an indate RTITB Counterbalance Licence
• Have at least 1 years experience of operating a counterbalance in a high volume operation
• Able to demonstrate clear understanding and interpretation of the daily inbound and outbound schedule and achieve all KPI's and SLA requirements linked to this
• Understanding of Food Safety procedure ideally educated to Level 2 in Food Safety

Key Responsibilities:

• OPERATIONS working with the Supply Chain Manager/Shift Manager to ensure that trailers are loaded or unloaded in a safe and timely manner
• Ensuring that all goods that are loaded or unloaded match relevant paperwork and managed to load specifications.
• Loading and unloading vehicles in a safe manager ensuring SOPs are always followed.
• Preparing and completing warehouse orders for delivery or pickup in accordance with the transport / production schedule
• Storing and rotating stock according to established procedures
• Reporting any damage or missing goods to the warehouse leadership team
• Keeping the warehouse environment clean and tidy and maintaining equipment.
• Following workplace health and safety rules when handling goods.
• Assisting with warehouse inventory controls, which typically involves using the sites EPR systems.
• Ensuring that all MHE equipment is pre and post checked when in use.
• Working closely with the production team to ensure any stock / timing issues are addressed a reported.
• Keeping records of the stock on the warehouse management system (ERP) so that it can be located quickly.
• Identifying products and labelling of stock pre despatch
• Operating the forklifts to move and rearrange stock and ensure that's products are stores safely.
• Carrying out line feeding duties to support production as and when requested.
• Management of the drivers in terms of allocations, loading, and despatching
• Liaising with the supply chain / transport team regarding schedules / driver related issues
• Participate in audits, inspections, period checks on site.
• Attend all required training and development that's requires to carry it their operations.
• The opportunity to be multi skilled in various areas
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