Driver/warehouse Person

**JOB DESCRIPTION and PERSON SPECIFICATION**

**1. JOB IDENTIFICATION**

Job Title: Driver / Warehouse Person

Department: Operations

Place of Work: Harbour Road, Inverness

**2. JOB PURPOSE**

To carry out collections and deliveries as required. Also, to assist in the warehouse, as directed by the Harbour Road Shop Manager or Assistant Shop Manager, to sort out stock from donations received.

**3. ORGANISATIONAL POSITION**

Recycle Manager

Transport (UK) and Warehouse Manager

Driver / Warehouse Person

**4. ORGANISATIONAL OBJECTIVES**

Based in the Highlands of Scotland, Blythswood Care is transforming the lives of children and adults in Europe, Africa and Asia. Education is one primary goal, giving disadvantaged children and young people the opportunity to fulfil their potential.
Community is another, with projects that extend help to people marginalised by poverty or prejudice.

Both are practical expressions of the Christian beliefs which have motivated this organisation for more than 50 years.

Blythswood shares the gospel at every opportunity, believing that it is for everyone - _For God so loved the world, that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life._ (John 3:16) Blythswood assists Christians and non-Christians alike, believing that everyone is precious in God’s sight.

**5. MAIN TASKS, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

Job-Related
- Driving - local collections of goods and shop deliveries as defined by daily manifest
- Follow Gift Aid procedures
- Loading/Unloading/Storing and moving goods between Blythswood shops as required
- Lifting bags, boxes and sacks of donated and sorted goods
- Identifying saleable/reusable items and waste items from goods donated
- When not collecting or delivering, tasks to be directed by the Harbour Road Shop Manager and/or Assistant Shop

Manager
- Palletising materials and loading lorry trailers efficiently
- General warehousing/stock control/waste management including collection of cardboard boxes, waste deliveries to

Inverness
- Liaising with the public in a customer-focused manner
- Carrying out vehicle checks for maintenance and recording vehicle mileage and driving hours
- Working with colleagues and volunteers who assist in the collections and deliveries and in the shops
- Minimising waste and maximising reuse and recycle at all times

Staff Related
- Co-operation with colleagues and management in order to get the work done safely/timeously.

Standard Responsibilities
- Maintaining good housekeeping within your work area
- Reporting problems, issues, accidents or incidents to your Manager
- Suggesting ways to improve the Health and Safety, or quality of work with which you are involved
- Identify training needs to your Manager
- Maintaining Health and Safety regulations and, by the Organisation’s Health and Safety policy, ensuring that the area in which you are working is safe for yourself, for other workers and visitors to the warehouse.

**6a. EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY**

In the course of your job, you may be operating a
- Organisation delivery van
- Forklift
- Specialised machinery
- Pallet Trucks
- Balers
- Pallet Wrapper
- Scales
- Satellite Navigator

**6b. SYSTEMS**
- Paper-based - (Collections Information Sheets)
- Mobile Phone

**7. ASSIGNMENT AND REVIEW OF WORK**
- Work under supervision of the Transport and Warehouse Manager
- Annual Performance Review
- Regular team meetings

**8. COMMUNICATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS**

**Within the Organisation**
- Operations Manager
- Recycle Manager
- Transport and Warehouse Manager
- Shop Manager / Assistant Manager
- Head Office Warehouse and Administration Staff
- Blythswood Volunteers

**Outwith Blythswood**
- The general public

At all times present a professional image to the public, corporate contacts, clients, volunteers and other employees.

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**
Training is provided and ongoing in all aspects of the position.

**9. QUALIFICATIONS**

Essential Clean Driving licence

Manual Handling Certificate

Preferred Forklift Certificate

**10. EXPERIENCE/COMPETENCE**

**Essential**

General warehouse experience

Manual handling

Dealing with the general public

Palletising

Loading and unloading goods from vehicles

Receiving goods into storage

Assembling, lifting, and transferring good for loading trucks

Recording vehicle mileage and driving hours

Vehicle checks for maintenance

Maintaining the security of high-value goods

Storing goods for resale or recycle

**Preferred**

Maintaining the safety of high-risk goods

Stock control systems

**11. SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE**

Ability to work independently and as part of a team

**Essential**

Good communicating and liaising skills e.g. liaising with the public in a customer-focused manner

Health and Safety Awareness

Adequate numeric skills

**12. OTHER REQUIREMENTS**

Exceptional ability to relate to and develop constructive relationships with people from all backgrounds
Ability to inspire, motivate and