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Essential Job Functions
Receive inbound freight, verify piece counts, check condition, and confirm cargo matches paperwork, manifests, collection notes, or customer instructions.
Load and unload vehicles, including local collection vehicles, supplier deliveries, customer drop-offs, and scheduled trunk vehicles to gateway locations.
Prepare cargo for onward movement by packing, palletising, banding, labelling, measuring, weighing, photographing, and staging freight as required.
Support export and import activity by ensuring freight is handled in accordance with customer requirements, shipment deadlines, and operational priorities.
Identify and report discrepancies, shortages, damages, missing paperwork, dangerous goods declarations, or other exceptions to the operations team promptly.
Maintain accurate warehouse records, including goods received notes, shipment references, piece counts, weights, dimensions, and location updates.
Assist with container loading, devanning, transload activity, and warehouse handling tasks when required.
Support the preparation of truck manifests and ensure freight is ready for agreed collection or departure times.
Maintain good housekeeping standards across the warehouse, yard, loading areas, and storage locations.
Follow all health, safety, security, and compliance procedures, including safe manual handling, equipment checks, and safe working practices around vehicles and freight.
Skills and Work Experience
- 2 years experience in warehouse, logistics, freight forwarding, transport, or supply chain experience is desirable.
- Ability to work safely in a busy warehouse environment and follow established procedures.
- Good attention to detail when checking freight, paperwork, labels, references, weights, and dimensions.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work closely with operations, drivers, suppliers, and customers.
- Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise urgent freight and time-sensitive collections.
- Awareness of export freight, air freight, ocean freight, dangerous goods, customs paperwork, or compliance requirements would be beneficial.
- Forklift licence or experience using warehouse handling equipment is desirable.
- Basic IT skills for updating warehouse records, shipment systems, or shared operational trackers.
Key Working Relationships
Aberdeen Operations and Export teams
Warehouse Team Leader and Operations Manager
Drivers, hauliers, and collection partners
Customers, suppliers, and vendors delivering to or collecting from the warehouse
Gateway teams and receiving stations for onward freight movement
Performance Expectations
Freight is received, checked, and dispatched accurately and on time.
Warehouse discrepancies are reported quickly and clearly.
Customer and operational instructions are followed correctly.
Warehouse areas remain safe, organised, and ready for daily activity.
All work is completed in line with company standards, compliance requirements, and health and safety expectations.
Personal Attributes
Reliable, punctual, and safety-conscious.
Practical, hands-on, and comfortable working in a physical warehouse role.
Calm under pressure and able to adapt to changing operational priorities.
Team-focused, proactive, and willing to support colleagues during busy periods.
Customer-aware with a professional approach to freight handling and communication.
Physical Requirements
- Stand or sit for long periods of time.
- Reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch and frequently required to climb or balance
- Regularly lift and/or move 25 kilo and occasionally lift and/or move 25 kilo by hand
- Warehouse temperatures are variable and often uncontrolled, unless the product being stored requires that the maintenance of a specific temperature.
- Ability to drive a forklift- and/or Reach truck and become certified by Crane Worldwide
Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Company benefits are contingent upon meeting eligibility requirements and plan conditions.
Recruitment Agency Policy
At Crane Worldwide3 Logistics we manage all hiring directly and do not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies or search firms. Agencies must not contact our employees or managers directly with candidate details.
Where recruitment support is required, we will engage trusted partners through a formal written agreement. Any CVs received without such an agreement will be treated as direct applications, and Crane Worldwide Logistics will not be liable for any associated placement fees.
We appreciate your cooperation in respecting this policy.
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