Yard Assistant
Kentford, Suffolk
Job Overview
Assist with site housekeeping, facilities management and routine inspections.
Salary
Day shift: Starting from £26,500 per annum
Dependent on experience/moving onto shift, plus benefits, plus potential discretionary bonus.
Overtime
Pre authorised overtime available at time and a half, after 40 hours.
Shifts Available
Day shift: (40 hours per week): Monday to Friday (07:00 – 15:00)
This includes a 30 minute paid break.
Benefits
Competitive salaries and annual salary reviews
Performance appraisals and annual bonus scheme
Opportunity for overtime (subject to job role)
Additional opportunities for training and development
Contributory pension scheme (5%)
Life insurance
Length of service rewards
Private medical healthcare
Two weeks sick pay allowance (after 5 years’ service)
Five additional days holiday after 12 months’ service
Specsavers vouchers to those that specifically require it for their role
Employee Assistance Programme
Duties & Responsibilities
- Keep the Yard clean and tidy, pick up and handle banding, timbers etc
- Keep the sheds clean and tidy
- Keep welfare facilities clean, tidy and sufficiently stocked with janitorial products
- Sweep under the racks and around site
- Carry out waste segregation and empty skips and bins
- Clean Armco barriers
- Put gas bottles in the correct storage location
- Carry out litter picking
- Garden and trim hedges, getting rid of weeds
- Paint posts, Armco barriers and other site facilities when required
- Use a forklift, CombiLift and sweeper to fulfil job requirements
- Replenish cleaning stations
- Offload and distribute small parcels, shot and paint deliveries
- Grit and clear snow from the yard in poor weather conditions
- Carry out routine inspections i.e. emergency lights, fire extinguishers etc
- Carry out any other ad hoc duties to maintain the site housekeeping, facilities management and the smooth running of the site
- Attend all training courses as and when required
- Follow all safe systems of work at all times. Identify and report any shortcomings that become apparent whilst undertaking tasks or if the tasks change or new activities are undertaken. Liaise with the HS&E Department to ensure such risks are assessed and procedures amended as necessary
- Actively engage in the identification of risks within the workplace and the subsequent assessment development of suitable safe systems of work. When necessary, intervene to prevent breaches of health and safety and/or report as necessary
- Follow the requirements of the Company Quality Management Systems, policies and procedures to help achieve a quality product for the customer and reduce the non-conformances
- Follow the requirements of the Company Environmental Management System to assist the Company’s objective to reduce the detrimental effect on the environment by way of waste management and any other areas to improve the environmental impact.
Experience
- Experience working in a warehouse enviornment or with industrial cleaning is beneficial.
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AJN Steelstock is one of the UK’s leading steel stockholders operating from two sites in Kentford, Suffolk and Henstridge, Somerset. We have an outstanding reputation for service and reliability and are proud of our continued inclusion in the Sunday Times PwC Top Track 250 League Table and the London Stock Exchange Group’s ‘1,000 Companies to Inspire Britain’.
