Warehouse Operator - Great Yarmouth

GAC UK employs a team of over 350 specialists spread across 25+ branches throughout the UK, Ireland and Gibraltar. Our focus is on providing integrated shipping, logistics and marine solutions to diverse industries, from offshore oil & gas and renewable energy to every aspect of the shipping sector, from cruise liners and superyachts to tankers and dry bulk vessels. Additionally, our teams dedicated to marine leisure, sports, events, automotive, and aviation sectors offer specialised services tailored to these niche markets. The highest standards of customer service, operational excellence and delivery are central to everything we do.

We are currently recruiting for a Warehouse Operator to be based at our Great Yarmouth office.

The key responsibilities are:

• Ensuring all activity is carried out with a high and pro-active QHSSE mentality
• Liaising with logistics colleagues, warehouse and clients to ensure requirements are met
• Ensuring all cargo is safely handled and stored
• Maintaining excellent working relationships with clients and stakeholders
• Packing and securing of containers for shipping
• Ensure timely and effective responses to all communications into the warehouse, including monitoring and processing e-mail requests and queries
  
• Forklift duties – loading/unloading transport, put away in warehouse/yard
• Goods in, line checking and put away – both physically and using our in-house stock management system

The ideal candidate will have:

• Strong communication and organisational skills
• Ability to multitask and prioritise
• Have a good understanding and appreciation of a proactive safety culture
• Experience using Microsoft office products
• Attention to detail
• A desire to continually improve 
• Counterbalance forklift licence (not essential as training can be arranged)

The Package

GAC gives you the opportunity to work for an employer who is committed to offering all our staff an enjoyable and rewarding career, with significant training and development prospects. In addition, you will receive a variety of benefits including:

· 38 days’ annual leave per year, plus a day off on your birthday

· Access to Vitality Private Medical Insurance

· Company pension

· Life assurance

· Eyecare scheme

· Employee assistance programme

· Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits

· Retail discounts scheme

Tusker Car Lease Scheme 

In 2021, we launched our ten-year sustainability programme – MARS30. We are committed to “growing long term customer relationships across multiple products, whilst significantly reducing our environmental impact, improving the well-being of our people, and influencing our stakeholders to do the same.” We will accomplish our by mission by completing objectives aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

At GAC UK, who you are is just as important as what you do. The GAC Spirit reflects our culture across the company, emphasising loyalty and understanding between management and staff. We recognise that people’s lives extend far beyond their jobs. By promoting a healthy combination of work and play we achieve a happier workforce, delivering service excellence. We have a team of 16 Mental Health First Aiders across the UK and a Wellbeing Working Group who meet monthly and regularly launch new internal wellbeing initiatives.

We are passionate about diversity and inclusion and joined the Diversity in Maritime Charter to underline our commitment to take tangible steps to optimise the diversity within our organisation.

In January 2023, Macmillan Cancer Support became our official charity of the year. Together, GAC UK and Macmillan Cancer Support will be working to help people with cancer and their loved ones live life as fully as they can.

If you think you have what it takes to become part of the GAC UK team, we look forward to receiving your application.