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Portsmouth Water is looking for a motivated and reliable Logistics Operative to join their dynamic team!
In this role, the successful candidate will take on a range of responsibilities, including accepting deliveries, distributing stock to staff and contractors, handling chemical and material deliveries to pumping stations, and managing site waste disposal. Additionally, the position involves operating a forklift, logging goods in and out both physically and within the ERP system, performing regular stock checks and replenishment, and overseeing hazardous gas and chemical deliveries. The candidate will also play a key role in maintaining a safe, clean, and organized stores environment while ensuring smooth logistics operations.
If you’re ready to contribute to a high-performing team and take on a diverse set of responsibilities, we’d love to hear from you!
What will you be doing?
Key Responsibilities
1. Delivering excellent customer service when dealing with internal and external customers.
2. Encouraging proactive and effective communications to help develop and maintain professional relationships with internal and external customers.
3. Promoting and demonstrating continuous improvements to procedures/processes/working practices to enhance the level of customer service delivery.
4. Ensuring that all tasks are undertaken in an appropriate manner in line with the relevant policies and procedures/RAMS.
5. Adhering to all legislation involved in the storage and transportation of hazardous substances.
6. Meeting agreed Department KPI's and SLA's.
7. Ensuring full compliance to all legislation involved in the storage and transportation of hazardous and other substances.
8. Working to, and assuring compliance with, DWI regulation 31 for storage and handling of materials in contact with the water supply.
9. Compliance with manual/assisted handling, lifting and storage regulations.
10. Complying with all policies and procedures relating to Health and Safety.
11. Ensuring the relevant checks are made to all plant and machinery and handling equipment.
12. Reporting any accidents or near misses in line with Portsmouth Water policies.
13. Proactively identifying improvements to procedures or practices to minimise risks.
14. Working with other team members to ensure all tasks are completed.
15. Providing ad-hoc Out of Hours call out cover when required.
What do you need?
Skills, Qualifications & Competencies
1. Computer proficiency.
2. Literacy and numeracy competent.
3. Good organisational skills and able to switch from task to task.
4. Ability to meet the physical demands of the job including fitness for 'confined spaces'.
5. Excellent time management and time keeping.
6. Flexible, proactive, and willing to take on a variety of tasks.
7. Effective communicator.
8. Team player.
9. Full clean UK driving licence.
10. Knowledge of water industry pipes, materials and tools including DWI regulation 31 compliance is desirable.
11. Counterbalance forklift licence, trailer licence, ADR trained, confined space trained would be desirable.
12. EUSR National Water Hygiene Card, Track mounted crane (HIAB) operation desirable.
13. 12 months experience in a stores/warehouse/logistic role would be desirable.
We recognise people want to work in a variety of different ways; we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you may want.
We support equality, diversity and inclusion and encourage applications from all sections of society. The Company has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to work and live in the UK.
Due to the high volume of applications received, we are unable to respond to unsuccessful candidates. If your application is of interest to us, we will normally contact you within 4 weeks of receiving your application.
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