Logistics Operative

**Job Title: Logistics Operative**
**Location: Watson Marlow - Cardrew Industrial Estate**
**Location Type: On-Site**

When you join Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, a part of the Spirax Group, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.

**This role will focus on**:
The Logistics Operative will be responsible for carrying out assigned Logistics tasks across all areas of logistics responsibility - goods-in, materials handling, warehousing, storing packing and distribution.

You will be part of continuous improvement projects focusing on customer satisfaction, cost reduction, on-time performance and process efficiency improvements.

You will liaise with and support internal departments and external customers with their logistics requirements and ensure they are dealt with in a timely, professional and efficient manner.

**What you’ll be doing**

Carry out a range of Logistics duties as allocated by department Manager or Team Leader

Be responsible for the Health & Safety of yourself and others in line with our EHS Roles and Responsibilities

You will prepare and complete required documentation and fulfil operational procedures and ERP processes

Maintain a flexible approach, working across all Logistics areas where business demands require

Keep good 6S standards within the department making sure all rubbish is placed in bins and not left on the floor, that all machines are placed in the correct locations when finished with and that work surfaces are kept tidy at all times.

Utilise lean methodology to optimise all processes within Logistics to ensure we are lean and efficient in all that we do.

To ensure compliance with all applicable ISO standards ie ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO45001, ISO50001

To self-analyse your performance; to plan and implement your own improvement.

Ensure that all documentation is completed as required and in a timely way.

Ensure that the correct quality controls and measures are adhered to; supporting the quality team on RCCA (Root Cause and Corrective Action) as required.

Actively report near misses and support activities to deliver improvements.
**To be successful in this role, you will need**:
Previous experience of working within logistics including materials handling, packing, warehousing storing and distribution of goods.

Good communications skills with the ability to communicate effectively across a diverse group of people

Flexible, high motivation with a can do attitude

Exposure to lean manufacturing principles.

Familiarisation of IT tools - including Microsoft Office and ERP systems

Experience of being involved in investigations of non-conformance and root cause analysis.
**At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including**:

- **A competitive salary
- Flexible working arrangements
- A generous holiday allowance
- Three days’ paid volunteering leave
- Comprehensive private healthcare
- An enhanced retirement plan
- Life assurance
- Additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan

**Everyone is Included at Spirax Group**
We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include:

- Gender-neutral parental leave
- 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave
- Paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse
- Menopause-friendly workplace principles and more.

Learn more at Our Inclusion Commitments.

**Company Overview**

Watson-Marlow is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones

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