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Logistics Operator | High Wycombe
Reference: BHN583391
Job details
- Start date: ASAP
- Employment type: Permanent
- Date published: 10 February 2025
Job description
Our client, a prominent player in the Defence & Security sector, is currently seeking a dedicated Logistics Operator to join their team in High Wycombe. This permanent role is vital to ensuring the efficient management of materials and stock control within a highly secure and regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Receiving deliveries from suppliers and other sources, ensuring the correctness of goods and accurately booking them into the system
- Determining inspection requirements and decanting goods when necessary
- Creating labels for each package in the consignment and moving them to the relevant next step
- Scanning documents into the system to maintain a digital record of paperwork
- Informing the recipient that goods have arrived and should be collected from Goods In where applicable
- Locating receipts in the correct location and updating the system with the new location
- Picking shop orders, sales orders, customer orders, shortages, and material requisitions, and passing to production ready for build according to the production schedule
- Performing daily cycle counting of inventory and submitting any adjustments to finance for approval within the system
- To liaise with stores lead to request and send stock from offsite storage
- Loading and unloading vehicles as required, providing an efficient service to both incoming and outgoing deliveries
- Maintaining cleanliness and order in the stores and surrounding area to promote good health and safety practices
- Packing deliveries and shipments to the correct standard as specified within the contract, advising commercial once the parts are packed, and providing dimensions and weights of each parcel
- Picking, collating, and packing items for dispatch, ensuring adherence to all relevant procedures and processes
- Handling queries from various departments relating to the stores department
- Working within the Goods Inward, dispatch, and stores areas to undertake all tasks in a timely and accurate manner
- Working cross-functionally between sites as required
- Performing daily checks on the forklift and documenting findings
- Observing and practising all health and safety processes and guidelines at all times
Job Requirements:
- Experience of working within a Warehouse or Stores environment
- Experience in stock counting
- Strong numerical proficiency and use of data
- Good understanding and use of computers and Office suite
- Physically fit and capable of moving boxes and items by hand, as well as climbing steps/ladders
- Forklift licence preferable, or willingness to learn
- DGN trained ideal but not essential
- Full clean UK driver's licence
Personal Attributes:
- Ability to build good working relationships quickly, to facilitate information sharing
- Ability to work independently, self-manage, and complete work with minimal supervision
- Problem-solving approach, identifying issues, and then proposing and implementing solutions
- Ability to work through ambiguity and provide a clear output
- Maintaining a positive and can-do attitude
- Strong accuracy and attention to detail
If you are an experienced Logistics Operator looking for a new opportunity to further develop your career, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's dynamic and talented team in High Wycombe.
Company overview:
Some company benefits are:
- Optional 9 day fortnight
- TOIL
- Flexible working hours
- 1pm finish on a Friday
- Annual bonus
- Casual dress
- 25 days holiday
- Christmas shut down.
- Option to buy or sell holiday.

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