Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness, humility, and a spirit of adventure, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn from our 79 production sites worldwide, known for their best-in-class processes and procedures. There’s many to learn from, with high-performing leaders and caring colleagues to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your energy, your personality, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.  

Being a Warehouse Operative, you will play an important part of the growing team in Overseal, South Derbyshire. You will report to the Distribution Supervisor. You will operate material handling equipment while performing tasks to include shipping, receiving, unloading, scanning, moving, staging, loading and locating products.

This is a permanent position.

The hours are 6am-2pm and 1.45pm-9.45pm alternating weeks, Monday to Friday.

You will:

• Pick stock for production and customer orders using RF guns, driving Reach and Counterbalance trucks.
• Prepare products for shipment, ensuring that the exact number and type of product is loaded observing customer orders.
• Sort and place materials or items on racks.
• Load, unload, move, stack and stage products and materials in dedicated areas using a fork lift, clamp truck or other power equipment.
• Help with physical inventories and cycle counts, ensuring stock rotation, and maintain accurate inventory records in the warehouse management system.
• Conduct operations in compliance with company guidelines and public regulations in a manner which promotes safety.

You have:

• High school education or General Education Diploma equivalency.
• 3 years work experience in a warehouse environment.
• Minimum 1 year of experience operating forklifts and other powered material handling equipment.
• Basic math and writing skills.
• Can follow operating equipment utilisation procedures.
• Can follow safety regulations while operating equipment.
• Can operate forklifts and other powered material handling equipments (licence).
• Can operate inventory management systems (e.g. SAP), including barcoding.
• Familiar with basic warehousing and shipping/receiving procedures.

Our Benefits:

• Life Assurance
• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays)
• Pension Scheme
• Medical Cover
• Discounted Shopping and Bike 2 Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Great Learning Culture

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.