Warehouse Operative
at Evotec (UK) Ltd
Contract type: Full-time
Salary: £25,000 plus company benefits
Application Closing Date: 31 March 2025
Who they are
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.
Job Description
They are currently recruiting for an experienced Warehouse Operative to join the Logistics Team at their site near Abingdon at Milton Park. This is a permanent position working Monday to Friday starting ASAP.
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.
The ideal candidate
Skills & Knowledge
- Previous 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.
