Packing Operative
Watson Gym Equipment
Packing Operative
£29120
Watson Gym Equipment, Frome, Somerset
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 21 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
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Full Job Description
- On site Gym free for Staff
- Free parking on site
- Holiday entitlement at 28 days a year (this includes the annual UK Bank Holidays) rising to 33 days after 2 years of service.
- Ample opportunity for overtime available
- Company meals and nights out
- Forklift license/certificate (advantageous not imperative)
- Previous Experience in a packing environment (advantageous not imperative)
- Familiar with using power tools/Carpentry (IMPERATIVE)
- Experience securing equipment with a ratchet strap (advantageous)
- PLEASE READ: THIS IS NOT A 'TRADITIONAL' PACKING JOB. PACKING GYM EQUIPMENT REQUIRES MOVING LARGE EQUIPMENT, UN-ASSEMBLING GYM EQUIPMENT, AND CONFIDENCE USING POWER TOOLS/WORKING WITH WOOD. THE EXERTION REQUIRED WOULD BE SIMILAR TO BEING A LABOURER ON SITE. IT IS A VERY DIFFERENT ROLE FROM PICKING AND PACKING SMALL ITEMS SO PLEASE KEEP THIS IN MIND WHEN APPLYING.
- Physically fit and strong, this role will be physically demanding
- Used to working to tight deadlines
- Independently motivated
- Forward thinking
- Proactive
- Enviable work ethic
- Interest in strength training
Watson Gym Equipment is one of the leading manufacturers of strength training equipment in the world. With a passion for inspiring health and engineering greatness the aim is to become the number one supplier of gym equipment around the globe, improving the health of millions and contributing on a grand scale to a healthier, happier quality of life for people of all ages.
Working Hours:
8am-5pm (Mon-Thurs)
8am-3:45pm (Friday)
You will spend some time training in our assembly department as the role requires you to be able to partly un-assemble the equipment.
Skills and attributes:
Due to continual growth we are looking to hire packing operatives in our HQ in Frome, Somerset. The positions are full time and permanent and we are looking for people that want a long term career with the Watson family.
Our packing team do so much more than the usual packing role. This will involve moving gym equipment onto pallets, securing, crating in when needed and shrink wrapping, packing up any small orders such as bars and accessories, loading containers and trucks and palleting dumbbells. You must be logically minded, some orders will require multiple pallets, and it is your job to make sure the equipment is safe for transport whilst trying to condense orders into as few pallets/parcels as possible. The role also requires disassembly of some pieces of equipment and training within the assembly department will form part of training process. You must be independently motivated, and able to communicate well with your team and other departments., Watson Gym Equipment is one of the leading manufacturers of strength training equipment in the world. With a passion for inspiring health and engineering greatness the aim is to become the number one supplier of gym equipment around the globe, improving the health of millions and contributing on a grand scale to a healthier, happier quality of life for people of all ages., Within our HQ in Frome, Somerset we take raw steel and transform it into the highest quality gym equipment that is designed in house by our visionary director, Simon Watson. You can follow the process through our ever growing factory from our bustling machine shop with our tube and box lasers, mills and lathes and robot welders, over to our welding department, to our powder coating plant, over to assembly and then finally landing at our despatch area where our products are shipped around the world. Watson Gym Equipment experiences unrivalled growth year upon year and this is all down to the fantastic people we have working with us, we are a community with a common goal, to engineer greatness and inspire health. We are all on a journey to constantly improve and evolve as we meet new goals and ensue our world domination. Visit our website: www.watsongym.co.uk to see it for yourself.
If you are interested in working for one of the World's leading gym equipment manufacturers and becoming part of a rapidly growing company please get in touch NOW!