Warehouse Quality Control and Recovery Team

**Warehouse Operative -Tewkesbury - £21,840 p.a. + benefits + £500 Attendance Bonus, working in our Quality Control and Recovery team. This role will be a crucial part of the WH team helping to ensure all products meet our high standards before goingout for delivery and identifying reasons for returns and any Quality Control issues. Our Warehouse has recently welcomed a new management team and are responsible for unloading and storing stock received from our manufacturing site, along withloading wagons ready for home delivery. The products are mostly mattresses, bed frames and bedroom furniture (heavy items) so please consider this when applying.
The Role** We are hiring Warehouse Operatives for immediate starts who will be responsible for ensuring that all daily warehouse tasks are completed under the supervision of the Warehouse Team Leader.
Working Hours: 8am - 5pm Mon-Fri (incl 1 hr lunch break) 40 hours per week.

Your role in the Quality Control and Recovery team will involve:

- Identifying damaged stock/packaging through warehouse audits
- Picking the stock for QC checking (2 person picking)
- Unpacking and QC checking the stock to determine the best course of action
- Repacking stock and returning to its warehouse location (2 person lifting)
- System updates as required.
As part of the wider warehouse team, you may also be asked on occasion to support with the below tasks:

- Receiving, storing and loading of customer specific orders and stock, into the delivery units ready for delivery.
- Ensuring the right stock is picked from the correct location and goes to the right bay, minimising errors
- Doing stock counts, safety checks, processing returned goods as required
- Using manual and mechanical operations to move incoming stock from suppliers
- Ensuring all handling, Health and Safety procedures and operating standards are maintained in line with company policies.
- Being part of a great customer service delivery operation so that we remain a leading provider of logistics services.

Full job description available on request

**The Skills**
- Previous manual handling experience and experience of working within a warehousing environment preferred, especially with some Quality Control experience.
- Previous experience of Warehouse Management Systems would be beneficial
- Ability to lift and manoeuvre heavy customer products (as part of a 2 person team)
- Understands the importance of their role in Home delivery and its contribution to the wider customer experience
- Understands the importance of an effective warehousing operation to the wider customer experience
- Self-Motivated, disciplined & Positively contributes to the team, creating a ‘Great place to work’
- Desire to deliver on our promises to our customers.

**The Benefits** In return for your contribution to the site’s performance, we offer a competitive base salary of £20,280 p.a. plus _all these extra benefits:_
- *Employee discount scheme for Bensons products
- *‘Perks’ discounts from numerous high street and online retailers and service providers to save you money on your everyday purchases and bigger expenses such as holidays and travel, electrical goods, motoring and leisure products etc.
- *Pension scheme provided by Legal & General
- *Healthshield cashback options for Health and wellbeing services (dental, optical, virtual GP, other hospital services and more)
- Access to Retail Trust services (guidance and support on retail issues, mental health, wellbeing & financial topics)
- Discounted gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Learning and development programmes to gain new knowledge and skills
- Career progression - access to internal opportunities to build your career within Bensons for Beds
- *Long service awards and ‘Love to Shop’ voucher rewards to spend as you like
- 28 days holiday, rising to 31 after 2 years’ service

(*qualifying periods apply)

**About Bensons for Beds** We're Bensons for Beds We put Sleep Wellness at the heart of everything we do. With 100 years of experience in sourcing and manufacturing the best quality beds, frames and mattresses, at Bensons we understand how to design the perfect, tailored sleep experience.We have 170+ locations and employ c 1800 colleagues. Under new ownership of Alteri Investors we have an ambitious 3 year plan to grow the business further and achieve our mission of being the market leading bed retailer with a strong omnichannel presence.

**If you're looking for a great Warehouse role, we would love to have a chat....