Warehouse Operative - Stores

Skills, Experience And Qualities Required

Essential:

We are seeking a highly motivated and organised Warehouse Operative to join our dynamic team at our SKIPTON Country Store. This exciting opportunity is ideal for someone passionate about serving and supporting the Rural and Agricultural industry and who wants to assist with the day to day running of the country store alongside an established team, ensuring the highest level of customer satisfaction and standards are achieved.

Every day we provide rural and agricultural communities with the support they need to succeed. Whether they are after a healthier herd or flock, increased yields, faster growth rates, a decent return on their land or even just a helping hand. We have the people, products, and services to help our customers get from where they are now to where they want to be.

This is why every role at Carr's Billington is hugely important to our shared success and why we welcome talent from across all different backgrounds to work across our retail, feed, machinery, fuel and central support divisions.

Carr's Billington Agriculture is a subsidiary company of The Billington Group, who are also the proud owner of Criddle & Co., English Provender Company and Billington Foods.

To organise the warehouse and yard, plus the arrivals and despatches of goods.

• Actively supports other team members to ensure targets and tasks are completed
• Delivers good working relationships with all team members
• Promotes the business and work to a required standard
• Follows company procedures to complete tasks without assistance
• Works to get routine daily tasks done in time and to the standard required
• Follows through customer enquiries, requests and problems and deals with them promptly
• Confidently deals with customer problems and is able to establish customer needs
• To ensure all policies and procedures in respect of Health, Safety and Environment are adhered to, in order to provide a safe and secure environment for self, staff and customers
• To be aware of the risks in the work environment and their potential impact on self, colleagues, customers and visitors and take action to address them
• To attend training and develop relevant knowledge and skills
  
  Ensure any deliveries required on the van are done in a timely and professional manner
• Keep the yard tidy, presentable with stock rotation
• When necessary, provide shop counter cover
• To ensure all legislation and approved codes of practice are adhered to in respect to ongoing compliance, including but not limited to UFAS, FIAS, & NOPS assurance schemes

The above list is not exhaustive and your role will certainly change over time reflecting the changing needs and activities of the organisation and our commitment to making best use of new technology and continuously improving the way we do things. You must therefore be committed to personal development and to becoming multi-skilled in order that you can adapt to and welcome constant change in the effort to achieve the stated aim of "making continuous improvements in the efficiency and effectiveness of our use of resources".

Essential:

• Team player, with a genuine interest in helping others
• Continuously looking to improve the yard areas and displays
• Full UK drivers licence so able to do Van deliveries to customers
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to liaise between a number of departments
• Exceptional customer service skills as dealing with many internal and external customers

Desirable:

• Qualified Forklift Truck and Telehandler Driver with experience in actively loading and unloading vehicles
• Holds a tachograph card
• Holds a CPC Driving Licence
• Agricultural knowledge

As part of The Billington Group we offer a wide range of employee benefits including:

• Annual salary reviews in September each year.
• A minimum of 25 days annual leave.
• Opportunity to work for a well-established family-owned business with ambitions for growth and innovation.

Health Assured:
Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which offers counselling and health and wellbeing advice.

Sick pay:
Generous company sick pay entitlement.

Health Cash Plan: A…