Warehouse Operative

**Who are we?**
Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km of pipes,keeping taps flowing and toilets flushing. At Thames Water, every one ofour actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to life, so our business is always open - and this matters even more through a pandemic. We’re proud of the positive ways of working we’ve adopted during the pandemic, creating a more flexibleand dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles, we’re moving to a hybrid approach with various options across working from home, office and our sites. We’ll cover this during the assessment process.
**What you’ll be doing**
The Thames Water Logistics Management Centre (LMC) is a central, single point of contact for the business. As a centralised operation, the LMC holds mobile equipment and critical stock at our distribution centres and business resilience hubs. Operating on a24/7 - 365 basis to provide a distribution and equipment service to support the Thames Water business.
As a Warehouse Operative, you will be part of the Inventory Operations and Supply Management team and will be required to provide safe custody and real-time visibility of our stock holdings. You will ensure a first-class professional delivery and collectionservice across all Thames Water & Alliance locations of critical stock and equipment to support the operational teams when facing the customer and operational incidences.
You will be based at Didcot but provide day to day stock management for Distribution Hubs in the wider area with the flexibility to attend all Distributions Hubs when needed with occasional travel to other sites if required. Your main responsibilities willinclude:

- Safely and securely loading and unloading vehicles
- Using SAP to ensure that inventory levels reflect real-time holdings
- Managing daily receipts from Distribution Centres
- Actioning returns against works orders
- Updating stock records accordingly
- Maintaining good housekeeping throughout the site and stores
- Ensuring equipment and critical stock are delivered and collected on time
- Operate mechanical handling equipment in a safe manner
- Safe custody of Thames Water stock and equipment
- £22,000-£24,500 depending on skills and experience
- 36 hours per week, Monday-Friday
- Shift Pattern: 06.00am-14.00pm, 08.00am-16.00pm, 10.00am-18.00pm
- On-call rota: Monday-Sunday: On-call enhancement, call out charge and overtime paid
- Full training and excellent wider benefits package

**What you should bring to the role**:

- Warehouse and RF scanner experience
- Full UK driving Licence and own transport
- Numerate and Literate
- Basic computer skills
- Comfortable with manual handling, lifting up to 25Kgs

**What’s in it for you?**
Our Warehouse & Supply centres are a fun, fast-paced environment where no two days will be the same. You will be working with like-minded people who want to make a difference to our customers. We are committed to giving you great training and will make sureyou are confident in helping customers.
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 24 days holiday per year increasing to 28 with the length of service and a wider benefits scheme.
Thames Water is a dynamic, rewarding and diverse place to work, with opportunities around every corner.If you join our team, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career, flexible working arrangements and great benefits. We’re also proud to be an equal opportunity employer,Stonewall Diversity Champion and Disability Confident Leader employer.
Find out more about working at Thames Water.
We deliver life's essential service so our customers, communities and the environment can thrive.This means, that when a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of your role, you’ll be asked to help out our Instant Support Teamto help our customers in their hour of need. This is incredibly rewarding, and you’ll be given full training - it’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues.