Warehouse Operative

About the job

Nutricia is Europe’s largest specialist nutrition company and the market leader in the UK. We specialise in the delivery of medical nutrition for the very young, the old and the sick, supplying high quality feeds to patients and consumers. Our purpose is to pioneer nutritional discoveries that help people live longer, healthier lives. When it comes to finding a great place to work there are plenty of things to look for: inspirational colleagues, freedom in your job to make a real difference, and a shared ethos you can truly believe in.

The Specialized Nutrition category, offers nutritional solutions with the shared goal of improving the health and well-being of vulnerable individuals. This ambition stretches from the first day of pregnancy into old age, with similar activities in terms of innovation and scientific research. Specialized Nutrition focuses on allergies, from prevention to treatment, with Specialized Nutrition working hand-in-hand to foster synergies and strengthen Danone's leading position in this sector. The Nutricia brand is a key asset, thanks to a medical legacy of more than 120 years and a recognition of health leaders around the world.

We have an exciting opportunity at our Liverpool Supply Point for a Warehouse Operative x3 to join our team.

The role is an ideal opportunity for development towards a broader operations career :

• involvement in strategy development

• highly transversal role, working actively with most of the companies functions (ops, medical,…)

• high exposure to hierarchy

• extremely strong operations mentality

A successful candidate will have these duties and responsibilities:

• Scheduling and managing deliveries to Goods In and shipments to Supply Units and Direct Customers from Liverpool, including the loading and unloading of vehicles.
• Inspection of goods, residue management, stock control and stock rotation to 99% accuracy using FEFO method
• Pallet control (Chep / plastics / one way), including transfers from wood to plastic pallets between Low to Medium Care
• Using Manbar/Tekdan picking Transactions
• Using MES for high care transactions
• Keeping the area clean and tidy including waste management control, through compliance with Damaway and 5S principles and completing Quality audits
• Controlling the Goods Out area i.e.: controlling the air lock between medium care and low care
• Kanban stock control system on non stockable items
• Start/raise investigations through safety tags/engineering tags/Clio system
• Be part of key warehouse improvement methods and tools (AM, D-GMP, FIT)

About you

Critical qualifications and experience required

• Trained and licensed to use MHE’s including, FLT, PPT.
• Knowledge & significant experience of the field.
• Experience of working with ISO 14001
• Experience of using the Manbar / Tekdan / SAP systems and PI checks.
• Know and understands the WAREHOUSE processes and is aware of related Dan Go (objectives, main steps, tools, organization & interfaces)
• Fluent in English.
• Computer literate with Microsoft Office, Basic Math skills
• Is able to use the relevant enabling technologies
• A strong awareness of health and safety including Manual Handling, STOP
• Ability to perform in a high performance team in a changing and complex environment.
• Commitment to delivery of customer service – internal and external
• Capable of working on multiple priorities within tight deadlines

Desired qualifications and experience required

• Driven to achieve excellent results
• Strong CODE behaviours (Committed, Open, Doer, Empowered)
• Understand the impact of his/her activity on the supply chain and Manufacturing and is aware of the main improvement levers of the SC processes
• Knowledge of high care transactions
• Ability to understand pre-dispensing area and liase with dispensing team
• Ability to control and put away raw materials, Bulk and Packaging in a safe manner

About us

Danone is a major FMCG company in the UK, with market leading brands across three divisions: Waters (Evian, Volvic), Dairies (Actimel, Activia, Shape), Early Life Nutrition (Aptamil, Cow & Gate) and Specialized Nutrition (Neocate, Fortisip). Danoners are steering us to a more sustainable future, helping to make the world healthier. As a certified B-Corp, we have our Danone Impact Journey to 2025. This will only be possible with each and every one of our leaders.

At heart is conviction that peoples’ health, and the health of the planet, are intrinsically connected. We talk about One Planet. One Health; that is our frame of action. To deliver this vision, we put our focus on delivering health through food and drinks to as many people as possible.

Interested in this role and have the experience we are looking for? You can submit your CV through sHaRe or this link.