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    LGC Group

    Life Sciences

    Warehouse and Shipping Assistant

    Kidlington, United KingdomOn-SiteFull-timePosted 6d ago
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    Job description

    Job Purpose

    The role of the Warehouse and Shipping Assistant at LGC offers an exceptionally outstanding opportunity to be part of a world-class Warehouse and Logistics team. Our objective is to build a flawless and efficient warehousing environment that strictly adheres to safety standards. Join us and contribute to our ambitious goals!

    Key Responsibilities and Role Objectives

    • Receive, inspect, and accurately record incoming shipments and materials, ensuring seamless operations.
    • Pack according to shipping instructions and local regulations globally, maintaining our world-class standards.
    • Maintain shipping department consumables and raise purchase requisitions to ensure all essential items are readily available.
    • Maintain a shared team email inbox by responding promptly with accurate information.
    • Conduct measurements of products using specialized equipment to ensure precision.
    • Operate warehouse equipment such as pallet and pump trucks safely and efficiently.
    • Pick and issue internal material requisitions and transport tasks to meet internal demand competently.
    • Ensure storage of goods according to their storage conditions and EHS regulations, promoting a safe environment.
    • Maintain an accurate ERP system through the completion of transactions.
    • Conduct weekly cycle counts against agreed schedules to maintain inventory accuracy.
    • Support international shipping operations, including coordinating global distribution of our temperature-sensitive and hazardous materials and managing daily pickups with shipping partners.
    • Maintain a safe, organized, and clean workspace, adhering to our high standards.
    • Coordinate the cold storage areas, conduct defrosting cycles, and monitor temperatures to ensure efficient conditions.
    • Assist in the production of SOPs for the Warehouse department, ensuring clarity and compliance.
    • Align with all company, departmental, and regulatory policies and rules.
    • Support the wider commercial team with various administration and operations tasks as required.

    Education and/or Experience

    Essential:

    • Strong attention to detail and high accuracy within administration and operational tasks.
    • Strong organisational abilities and capability to manage time efficiently, prioritizing tasks to optimally support business needs.
    • Proven experience in warehousing and logistics.
    • Capacity to work autonomously and arrange tasks effectively to optimally support the business needs
    • Good verbal and written communication standards to ensure clear lines of communication with internal and external collaborators.
    • Good IT skills, primarily with Microsoft Excel and Word.
    • Team-focused with a desire to support other team members when required to help the overall business function.

    Desirable:

    • Familiarity with third-party online shipping platforms is considered beneficial.
    • Experience with ERP systems.
    • Experience in transporting temperature-sensitive products and adhering to Dangerous Goods regulations. Holding an IATA certificate for Dangerous Goods shipping is a plus, though training will be offered.

    About LGC:

    LGC is a major international life sciences tools company, delivering key components and solutions to fast-growing application areas in human healthcare and applied market segments. Our high-quality product portfolio features important tools for genomic analysis and quality assurance applications, appreciated for their performance, quality, and scope.

    Our values

    • PASSION
    • CURIOSITY
    • INTEGRITY
    • BRILLIANCE
    • RESPECT

    Equal opportunities

    At LGC, we hold the conviction that every applicant and employee should be appreciated for their distinct skills, regardless of age, disability, race, color, ethnic or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership, pregnancy or parental leave, religion, or belief. Shortlisting, interviewing, and selection procedures are consistently performed without bias toward gender, sexual orientation, marital status, color, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, age, or trade union membership.

    For more information about LGC, please visit our website www.lgcgroup.com

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    About the company

    LGC Group

    LGC Ltd ( www.lgcgroup.com ) is an international life sciences company working with customers in the government, academic, pharmaceutical, agricultural biotechnology, food, environment, security and sports sectors. LGC’s Grant Management Group (GMG) manages a number of research funding programmes on behalf of government departments and other large national health bodies, to improve NHS patient health and care. At the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) we enable and deliver world-class research that transforms people’s lives, promotes economic growth and advances science. We manage public investment in excess of £550 million per annum and provide bespoke expertise to charitable and commercial organisations to get the most out of their research funding. The NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) in Twickenham, based at LGC Ltd ( www.lgcgroup.com ), is one of NIHR’s Coordinating Centres and manages a number of research funding programmes on behalf of NIHR and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). This role is based in the Systems Team at Twickenham.

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