Our client, a prominent player in the Defence & Security sector, is currently seeking a dedicated Stores Operative to join their team in Ealing. This permanent role is vital to ensuring the efficient management of materials and stock control within a highly secure and regulated environment.

• Receiving deliveries from suppliers and other sources, ensuring the correctness of goods and accurately booking them into the system
• Determining inspection requirements and decanting goods when necessary
• Creating labels for each package in the consignment and moving them to the relevant next step
• Scanning documents into the system to maintain a digital record of paperwork
• Informing the recipient that goods have arrived and should be collected from Goods In where applicable
• Locating receipts in the correct location and updating the system with the new location
• Picking shop orders, sales orders, customer orders, shortages, and material requisitions, and passing to production ready for build according to the production schedule
• Performing daily cycle counting of inventory and submitting any adjustments to finance for approval within the system
• Loading and unloading vehicles as required, providing an efficient service to both incoming and outgoing deliveries
• Maintaining cleanliness and order in the stores and surrounding area to promote good health and safety practices
• Packing deliveries and shipments to the correct standard as specified within the contract, advising commercial once the parts are packed, and providing dimensions and weights of each parcel
• Picking, collating, and packing items for dispatch, ensuring adherence to all relevant procedures and processes
• Handling queries from various departments relating to the stores department
• Working within the Goods Inward, dispatch, and stores areas to undertake all tasks in a timely and accurate manner
• Working cross-functionally between sites as required
• Performing daily checks on the forklift and documenting findings
• Observing and practising all health and safety processes and guidelines at all times

• Experience of working within a Warehouse or Stores environment
• Experience in stock counting
• Strong numerical proficiency and use of data
• Good understanding and use of computers and Office suite
• Physically fit and capable of moving boxes and items by hand, as well as climbing steps/ladders
• Forklift licence preferable, or willingness to learn
• Full clean UK driver's licence

• Ability to build good working relationships quickly, to facilitate information sharing
• Ability to work independently, self-manage, and complete work with minimal supervision
• Problem-solving approach, identifying issues, and then proposing and implementing solutions
• Ability to work through ambiguity and provide a clear output
• Maintaining a positive and can-do attitude
• Strong accuracy and attention to detail

If you are an experienced Stores Operative looking for a new opportunity to further develop your career, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's dynamic and talented team in Ealing.

Company overview:

Some company benefits are:

• Optional 9 day fortnight
• TOIL
• Flexible working hours
• 1pm finish on a Friday
• Annual bonus
• Casual dress
• 25 days holiday
• Christmas shut down.
• Option to buy or sell holiday.
• Option to purchase private health care, dental, critical illness etc via salary sacrifice.
• Reward hub - discounts at over 200 online stores
• 4 x annual salary life cover