Nelsons - the home of Rescue Remedy
Warehouse Operative
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Nature, nurture and wisdom
We believe nature holds the key to our emotional and physical wellness, providing gentle yet effective remedies. At Nelsons, we harness these powerful ingredients and infuse them with centuries' worth of expertise to offer traditional treatments for a modern world.
We're an award-winning, family-owned business, whose passion for providing natural healthcare choices since 1860 continues to drive us today. Nelsons is one of the UK's leading and Europe's longest-established manufacturer of natural healthcare products, having built up an impressive portfolio including the world-famous RESCUE® Remedy and Teetha®
What's next? Growth, and lots of it! We're experiencing a significant and exciting period of digital transformation and we're looking for talented, ambitious individuals to help drive meaningful impact across the business.
The Role:
Join our team at Nelsons, where you'll contribute to the production of natural medicines, including homeopathic, herbal, and flower remedy products. Your role will involve ensuring the safe, accurate, and compliant receipt, storage, handling, and dispatch of components, materials, and finished goods within the warehouse, in accordance with company procedures, GMP, GDP requirements, and H&S standards.
Key responsibilities:
- Complete all required training and keep it up to date, ensuring compliance with cGMP standards and using assigned initials
- Maintain documentation within the Quality Management System (QMS) and adhere to Data Integrity protocols
- Understanding and adhering to cGMP environment requirements
- Receive goods in promptly, book in through the WMS (Warehouse Management System), barcode label materials, deal with any damages and report damages and discrepancies to the Warehouse Manager, Planning, and Quality Control
- Effectively and promptly locate materials into stock locations ensuring correct quantities are showing on SAP
- Safely operate forklifts and other warehouse equipment
- Accurately pick Process orders for production ensuring that materials are ready ahead of schedule
- Ensure that all returned materials from production are quickly and accurately processed and returned to the appropriate warehouse location
- Carry out stock checks as required by the Company's perpetual cycle count system
- Work to high standards of warehouse hygiene and tidiness. This will include routine cleaning of the racking, stored products, and clearing the warehouse and its surrounding outdoor areas of rubbish and litter
- Work in a Safe manner with full regard for the Company's Health and Safety regulations to work to standards of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Good Distribution Practice (GDP) at all times
- Actively participate in team meetings to help improve the operation
- Ensure any concerns with racking, plant or equipment and accidents/near misses are promptly reported to Management
- Reporting damages and discrepancies
- Load vehicles with Finished Goods going to the appropriate 3"party warehouse
- Carry out any other reasonable management requested task
- Ensure effective organisation and control of stock within the warehouse, including production consumables, to maintain accuracy, segregation, and accessibility
- Drive continuous improvement of the warehouse organisation, implementing best practices to enhance efficiency, space utilisation, and workflow
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Requirements
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- English and Maths to GCSE Grade C or above (or equivalent)
- Working Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Good Distribution Practice (GDP)
- Knowledge of stock control using an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system or Warehouse Management System (WMS)
- Knowledge of modern inventory management techniques, e.g., Kanban principles and JIT (Just In Time)
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work with people at all levels
- The ability to work efficiently and effectively to meet and maintain strict deadlines
- Ability to work accurately, with attention to detail
- Ability to use own initiative
- Ability to prioritise and deal effectively with a varied workload
- Minimum 2 years Warehouse experience
- Current reach truck license holder
- Current Counterbalance Forklift License holder
- SAP knowledge
Benefits
What's on Offer:
- 🏖 25 days holiday per year PLUS Christmas shut down - whoop!
- 🌺 Free products and staff discounts to keep you healthy and happy
- ✨ Paid days off to volunteer for some awesome charities
- 🚲 Cycle to work scheme
- We also have regular socials plus all your standard stuff such as pensions, eye test vouchers, and season ticket loans. We can tell you all about what is available to you when you start!
Nelsons is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion, and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. We are interested in every individual bringing their whole self to work and this includes you!
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