Crating / Packing Technician (Hazardous, high value)
15 days ago
Wallingford
Crating/packing technician (Hazardous and high value goods) – Wallingford, Oxon/Thame Based in Wallingford, Oxon, we are a unique company that produces autonomous robots for the warehousing and logistics industry. These are complex and heavy products with electronics, vision systems, batteries and a range of accessories. We have a special culture here, and having a can-do at any cost mindset is paramount. This is a permanent role, based on site, 5 days a week on day shifts, but flexibility to work late or on an early shift pattern will be required. It’s hard work here – often frustrating but also immensely rewarding. We are not seeking people wanting a transactional 9-to-5 job, but someone who can grow with the company, improve things and who has a drive to be successful What you will do • Precision Packing: ‘White gloves’ custom pack and secure high-value robots and spares into specialised transit cases, ensuring they are protected against all transit conditions, • Mechanical Assembly: Use manual and power tools, including screwdrivers and impact drivers to secure robots and seal heavy-duty export crates, • Safe Loading: Safely manoeuvre robots and large-scale equipment onto vans and transport vehicles using heavy duty FLT, • Inventory Accuracy: Document all outgoing shipments, ensuring conclusive paperwork for all outbound shipments, • Dangerous Goods Handling: Multi-Modal shipping of Dangerous Goods by Air, Sea and Road., • Warehouse Operations: Operate a forklift to move heavy crates and manage space within the dispatch area to maintain an agile, high-performance workflow What you will need: • Tool Proficiency: Proven experience using hand and power tools (specifically impact drivers and screwdrivers) for technical assembly or heavy-duty packing, • High Value Handling: Experience working with fragile, high-value, or sensitive equipment where attention to detail is paramount, • Logistics Experience: Background in warehouse operations, shipping, or fulfilment; experience with “dangerous goods” export is an advantage, • Physical Capability: Ability to handle the physical demands of moving large robots and loading transport vehicles, • Forklift Certification: A valid forklift license is highly desirable., • The correct mindset: A "one team" attitude, the ambition to learn the robotics field from the ground up, and a commitment to high standards, • Multimodal Dangerous Goods Shipping experience desirable (IATA, IMDG, ADR), • Be eligible to work in UK indefinitely What you will get: • Rewarding and engaging work. Demanding but great sense of team, • Private healthcare, • Free food and refreshment on site, • Life Insurance, • Income protection, • Pension: 4+% employee with option to opt into salary exchange, 5% employer, • Employee Assistance Programme - mental wellbeing, financial and legal advice/support, • 25 days of holiday per year, • Full meals onsite in Wallingford, • Fun team events on and off-site, snacks of all kinds in the office