Are you a warehouse professional looking for your next challenge? Could you thrive as a Warehouse Assistant for a growing fulfilment and logistics company?

If so, read on.

About Us:

We’re ILG (International Logistics Group). We’re an independent fulfilment, warehousing and logistics provider with over 25 years’ experience and market-leading status.

Due to continued planned growth, we are seeking Warehouse Operatives for our Goods-In team at one of our sites in Crawley.

The Benefits:

• Salary of £20,799 per annum with an additional incentive for candidates who hold a valid forklift licence.
• Bonus scheme (£300)
• Pension, Life Assurance, Healthshield - Care Package and Discount Perks
• 22 days’ holiday increasing to 25 days after two complete holiday years, with the option to buy/sell holiday
• Birthday leave
• Dedicated rest areas with free tea and coffee
• Parking on site
• Dedicated platform for learning and development
• Staff member of the month rewards

Every day our people work hard to make our customers more successful and in return, we work hard to make our employees more successful. We invest in their training and development, recognise and reward their achievements and create opportunities to progress within our business.

We understand the importance of making time to unwind and have fun, so we fund a number of social events, including our amazing annual party. Each year we celebrate in style, present our annual employee awards and celebrate the people that make our business so special.

So, if you want to develop an exciting career, learn from a friendly team and realise your full potential in a fast-moving industry, this is the role for you.

Your Role:

As a Warehouse Assistant in Goods In, you will be involved in every aspect of the smooth running of the Goods In Department, as well as the warehouse as a whole. You’ll receive and book in client stock in-line with SLAs, support stock control activities and carry out picking, packing and dispatch duties when required.

Additionally, you will:

• Work in close liaison with Customer Services, sales and externally with customers and transport organisations in order to organise and maintain the incoming delivery schedule
• Receiving stock, checking and entering on the Goods-In log and placing in designated areas in goods in waiting to be booked in
• Using 3Ex.Net booking stock in accordance with timeframe in client SLA and ensuring that stock booking in is in accordance with the delivery manifest. Where discrepancy complete a discrepancy form and scan over to customer services.
• Create bar code labels in accordance with client SLA, update the barcode label log to ensure charged on
• Process returns using 3Ex.Net IT systems/Client’s own system and Google Docs in accordance with procedure
• Put stock away in the correct location
• Ensure that cycle counts of stock are completed in a timely and accurate fashion, in accordance with customer/s SLAs
• Contribution to audited counts of full stock-holding on a regular basis
• Ensure that any ILG deliveries taken are communicated to the correct contact
• Ensure that any goods leaving the warehouse are signed for and the paperwork passed to the Customer Service team
• Assisting with warehouse assistant duties as required, working from picking lists, to fulfil, pack and dispatch client orders in accordance with SLA through the 3EX.Net system/Client’s own system
• Ensure warehouse is always kept clean and tidy, with empty boxes flattened and stored in the correct location of the Warehouse
• Report potential risks, problems or product defects immediately to Goods In Manager or Warehouse Manager

Your role will operate on a shift pattern working five days out of seven. Including evening and weekend work. Shifts between 6am-9pm weekdays and 7am-4pm weekends.

About You:

To be considered as a Warehouse Assistant, you will need:

• IT skills and demonstrates and ability to learn our bespoke warehousing IT system
• Numeracy skills
• Previous experience in a role requiring accuracy and attention to detail
• An awareness of the importance of health and safety in a warehousing environment
• Reliable- a good timekeeper and good attendance record
• Communication skills in order to write straightforward e-mails and give verbal instructions/information to colleagues
• Physically fit enough to work in a role where the vast majority of the day is standing and requires some lifting
• Warehouse experience (essential) and working in Goods In (desirable)
• Fork lift experience (desirable)

Your role will operate on a shift pattern working five days out of seven, This will include evening and weekend work.

This role will involve some lifting and carrying of heavy items.

Other organisations may call this role Warehouse Assistant, Goods In Co-ordinator, Goods In Assistant, Warehouse Operative, Warehouse Co-ordinator, Goods In Operative, Picker, Packer, Distribution Assistant, Distribution Operative, or Logistics Operative.