Warehouse Operative

Warehouse Operative – Despatch

Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S72 7BN

£12.75 – Per Hour

Hours of work – Monday to Friday – 9am to 5.30pm

Temporary Contract – Ends 29th August 2026

Working as a Warehouse Operative – Despatch you will work as part of the Company’s Operations Team which provide a highly effective and customer focused service. The job involves performing order picking and packing duties and vehicle loading in order to distribute products for end consumers, care homes and other businesses.

• Reliability and dependability
• Self-motivated
• Literacy and numeracy
• Speed, accuracy, and attention to detail
• Good organisational skills
• Upbeat and energised
• Flexible and willing to take on a variety of tasks
• Team player
• Computer literate

• Picking and packing customer orders in accordance with their individual requirements, daily workload allocation and pre‑agreed targets
• Putting stock away in the pre‑determined stock locations and keeping stock locations up to date where movements are made
• Conducting regular cycle counting for product counts and location accuracy
• Liaising with the Management team to ensure that relevant, and timely, information is provided relating to any issue with customer consignments
• Loading of customer orders onto vehicles/collating orders ready for collection by external carriers or the click and collect service
• Maintaining high levels of Health and Safety standards and reporting any safety observations to line management
• Adhering to the department's 5S arrangements and general warehouse cleaning and tidying
• Ensuring that all work is carried out in accordance with the requirements of ISO
  9001, 14001 and 45001 and any other company policies and procedures
• Any other duties required by management to support the operation of the function