Job Description
What's In It For You?**
*Location:* Northern Uph, Doncaster, DN6 7BD
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time. 40 hours per week.
Shifts: This role will operate over two alternating shifts. The early shift - Monday to Friday 6.00am to 2.00pm and the afternon shift - Monday to Thursday 2.00pm to 12.20am.
Salary: £21,840 per annum
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*A bit about the role*
We're looking for a Warehouse Assistant / FLT Driver to join our fast paced Manufacturing team at our Northern Uph manufacturing site on a Permanent basis. A Warehouse Assistant / FLT Driver is a role to start building a rewarding career and making yourself at DFS. You will play an important role in ensuring either raw materials are readily available and unloaded from our inbound logistics teams or making sure that manufactured products are loaded safely and in a timely manner for our dispatch teams to deliver to our customer distribution network.
You will learn the processes of the factory and the materials that are needed to manufacture our furniture. This role will require you to ensure that materials and products are available throughout our factory so will require manual lifting and a full forklift truck license (this needs to be an externally recognised qualification as oppose to inhouse).
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*What we're looking for*
This role suits people who enjoy working in a fast paced environment and have a forklift truck license. You will also be capable of manual lifting.
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*We're in your corner*
We want you to really feel at home at DFS, with the support you need to do your best work, as well as a range of great benefits:
- Overtime paid at a time and a third
- A huge 30% colleague discount, plus 15% friends & family discount across our Group (DFS, Sofology, Dwell)
- Holiday allowance – the time you need to rest and relax (and the longer you’re with us, the more time you’ll get!)
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave to give you the time you need to settle in with your new family member
- Access to a range of high street & online discounts from: Sainsbury’s, ASOS, Currys PC World, IKEA, John Lewis and more.
- Discounted Gym and Cinema memberships to help you unwind
- Progression and Development opportunities to grow your skills
- Group Pension Scheme
- Group Sharesave Scheme
- Life Assurance & Company Sick Pay
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*Make yourself at home*
It takes a whole lot of passion to be at the centre of what makes a house feel like home — and that’s just what we do at DFS. We’re the leading sofa retail specialist in the UK, helping people find a comfy seat on great quality sofas since 1969.
We're a market leader in the UK because of one thing: our people. Our people made us who we are and will drive us into our ambitious future, together. We offer incredible opportunities to get stuck into fun and meaningful work as well as learn new skills — so you can really ‘find your thing’.
Are you ready to make yourself at DFS?
Ready to make yourself at DFS? Click ‘Apply online’ now to fill in an application form — with you in our corner, we just know we’ll do great things together.
[All roles are subject to satisfactory references and DBS check.]
We're an equal opportunities employer
We’re a family of individuals passionate about building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We love to celebrate and encourage our people to be their true selves. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital state, or disability status. Everyone is welcome!
Job Reference: DFS03087
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £21,840.00 per year