Warehouse Operative (View Here)
Full Time Warehouse High Wycombe

Can’t find anything to take your fancy?
We still want to hear from you, so please send us an email with your CV and a short covering letter to hr@shawston.co.uk. Let us know what direction you’d like your career to take and your preferred location, and we’ll notify you when suitable roles become available.

BENEFITS

Become a co-owner by investing from £21/month in Shawston shares.

Place 5% of your salary into our Pension Scheme and we will add an extra 3%.

Learn and develop through our mentoring and coaching programs.

Join our bespoke graduate plan and experience all levels of our business.

25 days statutory holidays per year, pro rata if you are part time.

We have always played an essential role in keeping the economy moving. Working alongside our suppliers and customers we have contributed to many of the UK’s leading projects and infrastructure, whilst maintaining continuity of supply in an often volatile industry. Our processes are frequently monitored to ensure we continue to provide unrivalled customer service and maintain a supply chain that is the envy of many. Our recruitment process is always evolving, we actively seek go getters, boundary breakers and innovative thinkers to add to our already established team of co-owners.

Customer Service
Unrivalled customer service is our goal and we’re pretty good at providing it too. Being employee owned means everyone from our drivers through to our senior management team are united in delighting our customers daily, achieving 98% satisfaction levels. Processing sales orders, quoting, dealing with queries, sourcing goods and organising deliveries are only a few of the day to day tasks carried out by the customer service crew.

Example Roles

Customer Service Assistant – Sales Orders
Customer Services Assistant – Progress Department

Warehouse
From picking and packing orders to managing goods in or moving and placing stock using a forklift, a day in our warehouse is never the same. Responsible for handling over a million items a year means the pressure is on, but there is always time for a brew and a bit of banter. “Work hard and enjoy it” is one of our key values and continues to be a cornerstone of day to day life in our busy warehouses.

Example Roles

Warehouse Operative – Pick and Pack
Warehouse Operative – Goods In

Transport
Managing our fleet of 25 vehicles is a pretty hefty task, keeping our vehicles in tip top condition and routed to the correct destinations all helps us achieve our unrivalled customer service levels. Loading and unloading vehicles, route planning and delivering goods directly to customers is all in a day’s work for our team who transport 6,500 tonnes of goods every year..

Example Roles

Driver
Transport Planner

Fabrication
We call them wizards at Shawston, because they magically change metal and wood into designs that are used to support or improve fire and mechanical systems. It won’t surprise you to hear that we have a set of very skilled and experienced wizards within our fabrication departments whose jobs are to design and create products whilst meeting rapid turnaround demands and high-quality expectations.

Example Roles

Welder
Woodshop Operative

Finance
Money, money, money, it touches every department in our business and there is no one more experienced in the day to day dealings of finance including auditing, share dealings, problem solving and promoting the understanding of financial management issues than our team of skilled professionals. They play a crucial role in helping our branch teams and shareholders meet their financial management responsibilities whist actively supporting the company values and culture. They’re quite good at adding up too.

Example Roles

Data Analyst
Management Accounts Assistant

Purchasing
As our business is employee owned a role in purchasing plays a super important part in the smooth running of our company. It’s basically your money that you’re spending or not. Our specialised teams are conscious of negotiating the best prices for goods from our complex international supply chain so that we can pass on these savings to our customers. So, if you’re really good at pulling those purse strings tightly you might just be the next person to join our team.

Example Roles

Purchasing Manager
Purchasing Assistant

Sales
Superstars. Dudes. Influencers. Highflyers. Just a few words to describe our sales teams. A job in Shawston sales is both hard work but equally massively rewarding and your attitude plays a big part here. It’s a big ask meeting and fulfilling customer needs and expectations, managing budgets, predicting growth, looking for gaps in the market and building customer relationships. But these are just some of the many elements our amazing salespeople bring to the floor every day. Fancy having a go?

Example Roles

Regional Sales Manager – Fire
Regional Sales Manager – Mechanical Services

Behind the Scenes
Shawston depends on it’s Branch teams to deliver goods to customers, but there are also a number of other essential support roles that help to keep the Shawston cogs turning on a daily basis. Our HR team provides hands on support to the branch teams with all types of people and HR issues. The innovative and forward-thinking Marketing and Internal Communications team are skilled creatives and strong communicators who regularly deliver industry leading brand awareness campaigns. And our resident H&S lead is an industry expert with a strong background in the construction and supply chain sectors.

Example Roles

HR Administrator
Internal Comms & Marketing Assistant
H&S Manager

So, you’ve decided you want to join us. Bravo! To make it easier for you we’ve come up with a few tips and hints to help you stand out from the crowd and show us the real you. Although we do have a presence in multiple markets, we’re not mind readers, so we’re really relying on you to tell us how it is. Let us into your head and tell us why we would be fools to pass your application by, how you would be a great asset to the Shawston family and why you deserve a place at the family table.

Find out about us. Look at our mission statement, know and understand our company values, tap into our culture. Check our website, browse our social media platforms, research the job you’re applying for. This is so important and will show us you mean business, plus our marketing team have made this really easy for you so no excuses!

Make sure your LinkedIn profile is consistent with the experience you’re highlighting. We like to have nosey on there to try to get a feel for your vibe before we meet you, so make sure it’s up to date.

When we invite you for an interview arrive on time. Think about where we are located and how you’re going to get to us on the day. Be smart, we’re a fairly relaxed bunch here at Shawston but we want to feel like you’ve made an effort so give those shoes an extra shine.

Think about the questions we might ask. We want to hear you talk about you, blow your own trumpet because no one else is going to blow it for you. Talk honestly and confidently about yourself, your skills, and your relevant experience. Why should we choose you over the competition? Let your personality shine.

Bring examples of your previous work with you, if relevant, we love to see what you’ve been up to in your previous roles. Ask us questions, about the role, about our culture, about our business, about our people. Ask away.

Although we’re interested in your experience and the skills you can bring to the role, we’re also rather interested in your personality and whether you will be the ying to our yang, align with our company values and be an all-round good egg.

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