Senior Warehouse Operative

DHL Supply Chain is the worlds largest contract logistics specialist, offering customized logistics solutions based on globally standardized warehousing, transportation, and integrated services components. It’s a really exciting time to join us as there are lots of big developments happening in the logistics industry. Globalization, digitalization, and e-commerce are all shaping the way we work. We even have picking robots in our warehouses to help us do our jobs!

It’s about everyone working together and the sense of belonging, teamwork and collaboration that you will experience from day one. It’s also about our quest to consistently deliver excellence, so we’re always developing to make sure we remain the number one logistics company and a great place to work.

Connecting People. Improving Lives.

Currently, we are looking for a passionate and energetic Senior Warehouse Operative to be based in the Operations Team. In this role, the successful candidate will support administration of warehouse and manual handling plans and processes to provide smooth operations for forklift operations, material handling and ground operations activities including movement, storage and inventory control; stacking, loading or unloading materials, finished goods, tools; packaging of materials and maintenance of existing inventories in line with the business strategy and requirements, corporate guidelines and policies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Under supervision receive goods, accurately sort, label and store goods ensuring optimization of warehouse space
• Under supervision verify items against the record of shipment, and inspect condition for damages/ defects, update received and shipped items according to established procedures
• Ensure proper routing of materials is maintained while transporting the materials between departments
• Verify and pack items for shipment according to specifications and the applicable transportation method
• Comply with established procedures to maintain and log the movement of incoming and outgoing materials and products
• Perform order fulfilment based on customer requirements
• Retrieve stored information, place orders or respond to enquiries such as inventory levels or delivery schedules
• Resolve recurring issues faced during delivery as per defined processes, systems and methods
• Undertake generally repetitive tasks related to movement, tools, and packaging (e.g. pickers and packers)
• Pack items for shipment according to specifications
• Under supervision receive goods, scan and verify items against the shipment record
• Undertake generally repetitive tasks to consolidate transshipment and sorting activities (e.g. within sorting centers)
• Under supervision support operate gas or electric powered forklift truck to move, stack, stage, load or unload materials, parts, finished goods, etc. and may use a hi-rise to load items in storage racks
• Verify and process applicable documentation during package/ freight pick-up or arrival at warehouse
• Under supervision operate a scanner to process all incoming and outgoing shipments
• Comply with established procedures to arrange daily pick-up schedules and dispatch pick-up delivery information in a timely and efficient manner
• Ensure forklifts and equipment are properly checked, used and maintained on a daily basis
• Support general admin tasks related to shipment processing and documentation, sending status information and accepting/ securing over-the-counter payments
• Answer basic queries from customer service and sales for shipment tracking and resolve issues related to misplaced shipments
• Stay updated with the methods of use of all equipment and obtain related certifications for loading, unloading and material handling equipment
  
  
  

Job Skills, Qualifications & Experience:

• Vocational/Specialized/Technical/Certification
• Less than 2 years of relevant experience