Warehouse Day Technician

Cabot Corporation is one of the leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials company producing a range of chemicals across 21 countries in the world. Our location in Barry (Sully, Vale of Glamorgan) has been established since 1992, and is a manufacturing site producing hydrophilic and treated Fumed Silica in close collaboration with Dow.

We have a vacancy for a Warehouse Technician to join our day operations on a temporary one year contract. The successful candidate will be working the combination of morning and afternoon 8 hour shifts throughout the week with a flexible approach required to cover business critical operations including rotational weekend working. The successful candidate will be expected to carry out all warehouse activities, together with stock rotation of raw material & final product to ensure that customer’s requirements and orders are delivered consistently. The Warehouse Technician will be working in a small team in a dynamic environment and therefore, we are looking for an excellent team player with enthusiasm and flexibility.

• Ensuring that finished product is dispatched and shipped to customers or outside storage in a safe, qualitative and timely manner with appropriate documentation;
• Loading of containers with palletised material, filling of tankers, off-loading of sea bulks and removing liners after loading;
• Safely moving raw material and final product to and from storage area;
• Recording accurately the raw material and final product inventory;
• Timely maintaining an accurate record keeping / log of incident reports;
• Looking after Nissen Hut and WPS Housekeeping;
• Carrying out designated maintenance work orders around the warehouse area;
• Taking responsibility for any other reasonable duties as required by the individual’s direct line manager.

• Fully Trained Fork Lift Truck License and full clean driving license - essential;
• English & Math’s to GCSE grade C and above or equivalent qualification – essential;
• Intermediate level on use of MS Excel & Word;
• Understanding and knowledge of stock records accuracy principles and cycle counting - would be advantageous;
• Experience of basic mechanical work - would be advantageous;
• NVQ Level 2 Warehouse skills or experience of working in a Warehouse environment, particularly with regard to lorry loading, both container and curtain sided - desirable to have;
• Stocktaking experience - desirable to have.

We offer

• Culture that is driven by 4 core values: integrity, responsibility, respect and excellence;
• Safe environment;
• Ongoing support & training;
• Great colleagues & very welcoming environment at the site;
• Opportunity to advance your career further in the organization;
• Cabot offers a competitive salary, shift allowance, pension scheme and private medial cover plus other local benefits.