Stores Operator

Job Introduction

Stores and distribution staff make sure that a range of essential supplies are delivered to the right location and are stored in line with site guidelines/ SOP’s.

Keep accurate order sheets, maintain stock levels, re-order & receive goods.

Role Responsibility

• Goods in - Taking receipt of deliveries, unpacking and checking to ensure that the specification, quantity and condition match the details found on the packing document.
• Goods out - delivering goods to operational and service departments on the main site and off site.
• Picking inventory against internal requisitions.
• Moving stock using appropriate equipment e.g. trolleys following safe systems of work and risk assessments.
• Making sure stock and equipment is stored correctly and safely
• Monitoring the use of items and equipment
• Making sure old stocks are used before new stock (stock rotation)
• Completing and documenting stock checks
• Perform housekeeping duties of stores areas.
• Check/ Remove Clinical Waste
• Monitor the use of the private staff car park, reporting and making arrangements for any unauthorised vehicles.
• Contractor supervision
• Monitor and restock of PPE stations
• Perform any other duties that may be required from time to time to support the department and the business.

The Ideal Candidate

• Ability to develop and maintain a good working relationship with a range of staff (such as operating department practitioners,  healthcare staff, pharmacy staff, administration staff  and external suppliers of equipment and supplies)
• Experience of working within a regulated area
• The ability to prioritise activities where most needed
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Physically fit for lifting, carrying and pushing trolleys
• Team working, part of a team but responsible for their own work
• Organisational skills
• Customer service skills

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process