Operative Warehouse

at  Evotec

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Warehouse Operative to join the Logistics Team at our site in Abingdon. This is a permanent position working Monday to Friday starting ASAP.
Role: Warehouse Operative
Role Type: Permanent
Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week. Monday to Fridays, days.
Salary: £25,000, dependant on skills and experience, plus excellent benefits package plus annual bonuses
Location:
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxford OX14 4SA, UK.
Aptuit is a member company of Evotec, a global Pharmaceutical business. Evotec covers all activities from target-to-clinic to meet the industry’s need for innovation and efficiency in drug discovery and development. The Company has established a unique position by assembling top-class scientific experts and integrating state-of-the-art technologies as well as substantial experience and expertise in key therapeutic areas including neuronal diseases, diabetes and complications of diabetes, pain and inflammation, oncology, infectious diseases, respiratory diseases and fibrosis.

Key Responsibilities will include

• To ensure all activities are conducted in a safe manner and that all equipment and racking is regularly checked and complies with Safety Legislation
• Changing gas cylinders, refilling liquid nitrogen containers
• Support of regular warehouse supplies, warehousing, picking and internal distribution, returning of goods
• To ensure the warehouse ERP system is accurately maintained in terms of stock quantity, location.
• Material Resource Planning for >400 inventory parts & >10,000 SKU’s
• Shop floor management with daily morning meetings
• Carrying out monthly stock-takes
• Invoice and query management to assist Purchasing & Finance
• Provide support on other duties when required
• Physical Transfer of stock within Milton Park sites
• Maintain Good Housekeeping in the warehouse and assist with 5S implementation within the department.

Essential Knowledge & Skills

• Must have experience with Warehouse ERP Systems
• Team player with the ability to work independently and as part of a small team
• Leadership capabilities to assign work for daily running of warehouse.
• Ability to assess, correct & prevent inefficiencies within warehouse.
• Shop floor management experience
• Previous warehouse operations experience, ideally in laboratories/ pharma
• Knowledge of Microsoft applications specifically Excel / willingness to improve knowledge and apply to daily workload.
• Flexible, enthusiastic and reliable
• To be a subject matter expert in 3 or more roles within the team
• Proactive approach to work with the ability to problem solve issues.
• Positive attitude towards continuous improvement projects.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities:

• Counter balance, VNA, Reach License
• IATA/ADR certification
• Experience and knowledge of COSHH regulations
• Driving License

Company Benefits

• Company Pension Scheme
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays & an additional 1 day for each year completed up to a maximum of 30 days
• Private Health Insurance for you, your partner/family under the company scheme
• Private Dental Care Scheme
• Health Insurance providing 75% of base salary after a qualifying period
• Wellbeing support 24/7 and counselling services
• Excellent career progression opportunities within the company; we have an excellent training and support and continuing professional development opportunities
• Eligibility to participate in the Company Bonus Scheme (This is a discretionary benefit)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Refer a friend scheme, team and annual company events, recognition awards and many more!

As well as

• Free onsite parking
• Restaurant which is highly subsidised
• Great transport links from Oxford and the surrounding area’s as well as a shuttle bus service from Didcot train station
• Milton Park also offer’s great cycling, running & walking routes as well as annual events.

FR : Dans le cadre de sa politique Diversité, Evotec étudie, à compétences égales, toutes les candidatures dont celles des personnes en situation de handicap.
ENG : In the frame of our Diversity policy, Evotec considers, with equal competences, all applications including people with disabilities.

• To ensure all activities are conducted in a safe manner and that all equipment and racking is regularly checked and complies with Safety Legislation
• Changing gas cylinders, refilling liquid nitrogen containers
• Support of regular warehouse supplies, warehousing, picking and internal distribution, returning of goods
• To ensure the warehouse ERP system is accurately maintained in terms of stock quantity, location.
• Material Resource Planning for >400 inventory parts & >10,000 SKU’s
• Shop floor management with daily morning meetings
• Carrying out monthly stock-takes
• Invoice and query management to assist Purchasing & Finance
• Provide support on other duties when required
• Physical Transfer of stock within Milton Park sites
• Maintain Good Housekeeping in the warehouse and assist with 5S implementation within the department