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Warehouse Operatives – new enhanced pay rate with 10.5% uplift!
Warehouse Operatives, 10pm – 6am NIGHTS, Hull (near North Ferriby), £12.42 per hour plus excellent bonuses (up to £100 PER WEEK
pick bonus and £150 per month attendance bonus). Overtime paid at time and a half. Plus pension and staff discount across Heron
Foods and B&M. Subsidised transport to site in conjunction with Stagecoach.
Permanent vacancies with immediate start available at our growing business.
Start your career at Heron Foods! At Heron Foods we believe in nurturing our internal talent and we offer opportunities for
progression for hard-working and talented individuals who want to get on!
**No experience necessary as full training is provided**
Heron Foods is one of the UK’s fastest growing food retailers. We are really going places and our Warehouse Pickers are
instrumental to ensuring our busy stores are stocked all year round, providing the best value shopping to our customers in the
heart of their communities, 7 days per week, making 2,132 deliveries per week plus across over 310 Heron stores and 82 B&M stores.
To support our store expansion program, we are currently recruiting full time Warehouse Operatives (Pickers) on a permanent basis
to join our team at our Melton site. We are offering 40 hours per week, working five 8 hour shifts per week working 10pm until 6am
working every other weekend. The role involves picking stock orders in a fast paced environment ready to be distributed to our
network of stores in an efficient and effective manner within the Freezer, Chilled or Ambient chamber.
You will be working to targets, so this role has a performance related bonus, with the potential to earn up to an extra £100* per
week on top of your basic pay. (*full time equivalent, subject to your usual tax & NI deductions).
Why Work for Heron Foods as a Warehouse Picker?
* £12.42 per hour basic rate
* Earn up to £100 per week performance bonus
* Opportunity to earn £150 per month attendance bonus
* Overtime paid at time and a half rate
* Potential earnings of up to £32,833 per year!
* Working on a two-week rolling rota with every other weekend off
* Opportunity to apply for first class development programs including Warehouse to Wheels (HGV Class 1 training)
* Opportunities to develop within the business – we prefer to promote from within
* Grow within a successful and rapidly expanding business
* 10% staff discount with Heron Foods and sister company B&M
Other benefits include:
* 30 days annual leave, plus additional days awarded for long service
* Pension
* Weekly pay
Responsibilities of the Warehouse Picker / Warehouse Operative:
* Pick orders (using a voice activated headset) and load cages ready for store deliveries in an accurate and efficient manner,
this could be based in the freezer section, chiller or the ambient store
* You could be potentially working in conditions of -25 in the Freezer section, for this you will have the correct PPE to work in
this climate
* Manage your time effectively in order to achieve the pick figure targets and job standards set out by Warehouse
Supervisor/Manager
* Complying with all Health & Safety responsibilities in line with Company policies and procedures
Skills and experience:
* Essential: time management, accuracy, energy and a ‘can do’ attitude, ability to work to KPI targets
* Desirable: previous warehouse experience, experience of using "voice pick system", manual handling experience
Previous experience may include: Warehouse Picker, Warehouse Assistant, Warehouse Apprentice, Warehouse Picking, Order Picker,
Warehouse Operative, Goods Out, Retail Assistant, Order Packer, Warehouse Assistant, Distribution Centre Operative. Packing
Operative.
