Stock Management Operative

Location: Gorsey Point, Widnes (WA8 0RP) 
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Sunday to Thursday, 37 hours per week, 23:00 - 07:00
Salary: £29,464 per annum including shift premium, plus 22 days holiday rising, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme
 
About the Job
Relationships mean everything to us, and this one is particularly special.  You’ll have an important part to play in healthcare success for the NHS Supply Chain. Unipart as its logistics partner works with over 800 suppliers, delivering 4.5 million orders a year to Trusts nationally, as well as providing a home delivery service to private individuals and care homes.
Here at Unipart, we don’t just have a way of working, we have The Unipart Way.  It allows everyone in our team to pursue their own personal and professional goals to a world class level, through Unipart's ‘From Gate to Great’ training and development program.
As Stock Management Operative you will undertake stock checking and financial adjustments to nationally agreed standards. You’ll ensure actions are consistent with site Policies and Procedures and assist in optimising space capacity in the warehouse and external locations (as necessary).
 
As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

• Carry out daily programmed Stock Checks on a perpetual basis of all items held in the Distribution Centre
• Investigate and adjust, when required, any stock variances
• Carry out Individual Stock Checks on items held in the Distribution Centre following notification from Operations, Customer Services or Inventory Management of stock integrity issues
• Rectify/quarantine, then record instances of insufficient shelf life, damaged goods, poor packaging or incorrectly located stock in accordance with National Audit Procedures
• Run reports on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to monitor stock performance
• Assist the Site Inventory Manager with the control and monitoring of the emergency Department of Health contingency stocks
• Advise Warehouse Line Management of any poor operational practices found
• Complete annual stock checks adhering to national agreed procedures, where appropriate
• Quality Check within the Dispatch Area of the Warehouse, ensuring that operational procedures are followed, ensuring any discrepancies found are rectified
• Perform and rectify quality checks on all new line items to ensure acceptable standard of product quality and accuracy of system data
• Produce and maintain pick face description labels and shelf talkers
• Maintain BS EN ISO 9002/ISO (phone number removed) standards in all physical operational activity
• Assist in auditing external customer’s receipt and distribution processes and procedures
• Support in the maintenance of management reports
• Operate a range of Mechanical Handling Equipment
• Promote good working relationships with all departments 

About You
 
We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!

• Warehouse experience
• Experience following work procedures and safety rules
• Ability to read, understand, and follow directions/instructions
• Ability to count accurately and to perform simple maths calculations
• You will move product so will be required to bend, stretch, stoop, reach and/or lift, in line with Health & Safety regulations
• Attention to detail
• Planning and organisational skills
• Ability to work at height and be willing to train on MHE/VNA

 
Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies.  We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales.   As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.
You may have experience in the following roles: Warehouse Stock Controller, Inventory Control Specialist, Stock Management Operative, Logistics Coordinator, Warehouse Operative, Supply Chain Assistant, Stock Audit Clerk, Distribution Centre Operative, Stock Control Clerk, Warehouse Inventory Associate, Stock Auditor, etc.
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