Despatch Technician

The DS Smith Warehouse team are a dynamic and skilled mix of professionals who focus on delivering machine products, delivering on operational targets and performance whilst working to delight our customers by showcasing our sustainable and innovative packaging solutions - The Despatch team are fundamental to our business success, one of our biggest departments and filled with highly skilled, highly experienced individuals!

The DS Smith Warehouse team are a dynamic and skilled mix of professionals who focus on delivering machine products, delivering on operational targets and performance whilst working to delight our customers by showcasing our sustainable and innovative packaging solutions - The Despatch team are fundamental to our business success, one of our biggest departments and filled with highly skilled, highly experienced individuals!

Key Responsibilities Fork-Lift Truck Operations Ensure all activities within the warehouse (and external stores) are carried out in line with current Health & Safety SSOW and policies Ensure product received from manufacturing is correctly palletised through to the take-off lines.

Ensure that machine supplies are managed to their correct levels to minimise any machine downtime. Ensure take-off lines do not back-up through effective movement of product to the loading bays or warehouse. Correct use of IRF scanning systems to ensure product movements are correctly recorded.

Allowing for customer restrictions, load trailers in the most effective way to maximise trailer utilisation. Support manufactured volume flow through effective post-manufacturing process controls to deliver product on-time in-full to the customer.

Benefits Subsidised canteen Company pension Cycle to work scheme Employee discounts Enhanced maternity/paternity leave ShareSave Scheme Wellbeing / Digicare+ Apps Annual health assessments Free on-site parking Referral programme Location : Fordham, Newmarket on a 12 hour shift pattern, days & nights rotation starting either 06:00 or 18:00.

About us We're DS Smith, a company who are redefining packaging for a changing world. We believe a better, more sustainable tomorrow is possible with the right people, who challenge and support one another to enact positive change.

Today, we operate in more than 30 different countries, proudly employing over 30,000 people, and supporting customers across sectors like FMCG, industrial, and e-commerce. We deliver on quality, service, innovation, and added value to deliver market-leading sustainable packaging solutions our customers need. Our industry needs to transform, and w...

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