As a Cylinder Operative, your daily routine operates in a safety-first warehouse environment where handling high-pressure vessels requires extreme attention to detail.
Sorting & Handling: Safely loading, unloading, and storing gas cylinders into correct pallets, pens, or vehicles.
Inspection & Quality Control: Checking cylinders before and after the filling process to spot sub-standard, leaking, or defective units, and separating them for maintenance.
Gas Cylinder Filling: Operating filling machinery to fill cylinders efficiently according to strict quality guidelines and standard time frames.
Documentation & Safety Audits: Carrying out mandatory daily pre-use inspection checks on moving equipment like trolleys and forklift trucks.
Shift Patterns & Compensation
Pay Rate: £15.80 per hour.
Hours: 42 hours per week.
Shift Rotation: Typically a two-week alternating schedule:
Week 1: Monday to Friday, 05:45am - 2:00pm
Week 2: Monday to Friday, 1:45pm - 10:00pm
Perks: Opportunities for overtime and weekend work with attractive premium allowances.
Candidate Requirements
Experience & Licences: A forklift (FLT) licence is preferable but not essential; the company is happy to provide full on-the-job forklift training for the right candidate.
Core Skills: Good communication, strong self-motivation, digital literacy (to operate tracking/filling software), and a safety-conscious mindset.
Hiring Prerequisites: Because of the hazardous nature of handling compressed gases, you must pass a face-to-face interview, a criminal record check, and a drug and alcohol/medical assessment before starting.
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