Warehouse Operative

Job Introduction

Are you an experienced Warehouse Operative with forklift truck experience looking to join a well-established and respected manufacturing business?

At Carr's Flour Mills, we're looking for a motivated and reliable Warehouse Operative to support our busy warehouse operation at our Silloth site. This is an excellent opportunity to join a business with a long history of quality, stability, and employee development, offering genuine opportunities for career progression.

Location: Silloth
Salary: Competitive
Benefits: Enhanced holiday entitlement, company sick pay, life insurance, health cash plans, family friendly policies, EV/ULEV car scheme and cycle to work scheme.
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
 
The role: 

As a Warehouse Operative, you will be responsible for the safe, accurate, and efficient handling of finished flour products throughout the warehouse. Working closely with production and logistics teams, you'll ensure products are stored, picked, and dispatched to the highest standards of food safety, quality, and customer service.

Key Responsibilities

• Confidently operate the D365 Warehouse Management System (WMS).
• Transport product from packing lines and ensure correct pallet presentation, slip sheet positioning, wrapping, labelling, and storage.
• Accurately pick customer orders using pick tickets and WMS processes.
• Follow FIFO (First In, First Out) stock rotation procedures.
• Safely and efficiently load customer trailers for dispatch.
• Complete HACCP checks accurately and in a timely manner.
• Maintain high standards of housekeeping through a "Clean as You Go" approach.
• Ensure part-picked pallets remain tidy, organised, and free from product cross-mixing.
• Support stock counts and inventory accuracy activities.
• Assist with tote bag packing production and support small pack departments when required.
• Participate in training and development activities.
• Comply with all Health & Safety, Food Safety, Food Quality, and Customer Service requirements.

About you:

To be successful in this role, you will have:

Essential

• Counterbalance Forklift Truck licence.
• Previous warehouse, production, or manufacturing experience.
• Good organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Computer literacy and confidence using warehouse systems.
• Manual handling training.
• Hand truck training.
• Basic Food Hygiene knowledge.
• Understanding of HACCP principles.
• A flexible approach to support changing business needs.
• Commitment to maintaining high standards of safety, quality, and housekeeping.

Desirable

• MEWP licence.
• Experience working within a food manufacturing environment.
• Additional warehouse or logistics qualifications.

We manufacture a wide range of flours in some of the most technically advanced mills in the world which ensures the highest level of food safety and brand protection for our customers. We have built our reputation as a world class miller and market leader by establishing close working relationships with our customers. We hold ourselves to uncompromised ethical and legal standards and are proud that our customers and suppliers endorse our reputation for innovation, consistency and partnership.

Our Values

At Whitworth Food Group, our values guide how we work, support one another, and deliver for our customers and communities:
Innovation - We are focused on using new technology and smarter ways of working to deliver customers the best value, healthy foods. 
Excellence - We are obsessed about quality, efficiency, safety and service to deliver market leading solutions for our customers. 
Ambition - We are determined to constantly improve all parts of our business to deliver long term growth. 
Togetherness - We are always better working together as a team. We support each other, our customers, our suppliers and our communities to succeed. 

Our employees demonstrate these values through their day-to-day work, behaviours and decision-making.

Ready to be part of something bigger?
Apply here today and start your journey with Carr's Flour Mills!

Carr’s Flour Mills Ltd is an Equal Opportunities Employer.