Warehouse Operative - Dordon

Pick a career that offers bags of possibilities! Join Ocado Logistics today.

Here at Ocado Logistics it's our mission to provide an outstanding customer experience – making sure we provide the biggest variety, the best quality and all in time for tea!

As a Warehouse Operative for Ocado Logistics, you are at the beating heart of our delivery team ensuring everyone of our 215,000 orders per week are correct and received undamaged and on time, every time.

In return we offer an onsite restaurant, plenty of parking for you to get to and from work and a variety of areas and shift options so you can plan your work-life balance around picking up the kids or further study. We work hard to ensure our warehouse operatives receive work patterns 6 - 13 weeks in advance, giving you bags of time to plan time with your family and friends.

We have roles in the following areas;

Despatch - You'll play an important role in ensuring our customers' shopping is loaded into the correct vans for our drivers to pick up - by loading pre packed individual plastic boxes of shopping (we call them totes) into frames which are then loaded into our delivery vans. You are at the heart of the customer journey as our despatchers also sort and organise totes coming back to site. This is a physical role as some of the boxes can be heavy, so there’s no need for a gym membership!

Pick – Our pickers are focused on attention to details and taking care - picking and packing specific customer orders into the shopping totes. This is a process that requires you to handle goods with care as we want to ensure that all of our customers' goods are received in tip top condition. It can be a game of skill and speed as you ensure the right products go in the right bags and we pick and pack over 9.5m items per week in Dordon alone.

Inbound – Our Inbound operatives are our quality assurance team. You'll be receiving goods from suppliers and once ensuring they are in tip-top condition, putting these into totes so that our pickers can do their jobs.

You will be required to work across both ambient and chilled areas (0-5℃) in the above roles.

Freezer – This role involves you working in a very big freezer in temperatures of up to -25℃ Your safety is our top priority though, so full thermal gear is provided – but if you like the cold, this is the job for you!

Food shopping never stops so we operate a 24 hour warehouse and it’s a buzzy environment that is continually on the go. There’s a shift time to suit everyone – whether you are a morning person or a night owl, and we operate 4 day/night rotas in a week:

Daytime Pickers/Freezer Operatives - 4:30 - 14:30 - 4 days

Night time Pickers/Freezer Operatives - 18:35 - 04:35 - 4 nights

Daytime Despatch Operative - 06:00 - 16:00 - 4 days

Night time Despatch Operatives - 20:05 - 06:05 - 4 nights

Days Inbound - 08:00 - 19:00 - 4 days

Nights Inbound - 19:00 - 06:00 - 4 nights

In return we offer:

A starting salary of - £12.36 per hour

With a night shift premium (between the hours of 00:00 and 06:00) – of an additional £2.67 per hour

And a Freezer Premium of £0.90p per hour

Overtime is paid at a basic rate of 1.25x

Whilst a safe working environment in our warehouses is top of mind and goes without saying we also offer a shopping list of perks that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle including:

Enhanced digital GP service for you and your immediate family

50% earned salary advances for four-weekly paid employees

High street shopping and restaurant discounts - including 15% off your weekly shop with (url removed)

Up to 7% matched pension contributions after three months of service

Established car share commuting scheme

And if you decide being a warehouse operative isn't for you and you would like to pursue a career with Ocado – there’s plenty of opportunities for progression – as 87% of our salaried roles are filled by internal colleagues!

So what do we need from you?

You don’t need any previous experience to join our friendly team. Just bring yourself and a positive attitude and our amazing training team will do the rest!

You must be over 18 to apply.

How to apply:

Simply fill out an online application (no CV required), and our friendly recruitment team will be in touch!

About Ocado Logistics

Here at Ocado Logistics, our people, technology and customers work side by side supporting the amazing communities we serve. We're all in it together - not afraid to roll up our sleeves (robots included) and get stuck in.

Our people are incredibly diverse and come from all walks of life with different stories and experiences. We are proud that we are a disability-confident employer, we prioritise inclusivity and equal opportunities for all individuals, ensuring a supportive and accessible workplace for employees with disabilities.

Ocado Group is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employees are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, age, or disability or union membership status

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