It’s time for those soft skills to pay off! Are you ready to put your organisational and time management skills to good use and earn that degree? The Sortation Hub Operative Apprenticeship provides the opportunity to put your skills to good use. Keep reading on and discover how your skills align with the role of an Express Delivery Sortation Hub Operative.
Overview of the Role The occupation, found in the Transportation logistics sector, provides the centralised support that enables the rapid distribution of goods in transit to and from couriers and postal services. The broad purpose of the occupation is to contribute to the successful processing of items within the expected time-frame. The nature of the job, remains highly organised and often uses the latest technological solutions.
Sortation hub operatives do not store or deliver goods themselves. Instead, they provide express service, in the form of quick turnaround time of distribution of goods. These goods go to couriers/postal services and other road transport operators.
Duties And Responsibilities of Sortation Hub Operative
- Collaboration: In your daily work communication and collaboration play a big part. You will work within your own team and together with the supervisors or managers.
- Sorting out goods: Firstly, you will in charge of determining the nature goods. Categorizing as perishables, parcels or mail and selecting the most suitable approach to sortation.
- Unload/Load goods & Use the correct equipment: This job requires familiarising yourself with using the appropriate tools for respective tasks. Machinery operating procedures including sortation belts, chutes, York roll containers, drop bags, mail bags, mail cages, and boom loaders.
- Operation of machinery: You will be operating sortation machinery. The job uses both manual and semi-automated machines. Attention to detail is needed to efficiently carry out duties.
- Maintenance of equipment: At the same time, you will take ownership of monitoring and maintaining sortation equipment. This includes: the minor adjusting of belts and chutes during a typical shift. This duty requires full ownership and the willingness to place safety and security first for themselves and others.
- Adaptability: Sortation hub operatives can expect to work indoors and at a fixed site. You will usually work shifts, which quite commonly includes some unsociable hours.
- Respond to data sortation equipment: Respond to data to support the correct flow of automated sortation.
- Problem solving: Responding to incidents and emergencies, such as damage to parcels. However you will escalate more significant issues beyond your control responsibility.
- Meet organisational targets through ownership and team work: You will be responding to deliveries, collections and returns in accordance with own organisation procedures and any relevant contractual arrangements . Additionally, you will be comfortable working autonomously as well as collaboratively with the rest of the team .
The Fine Print: This apprenticeship has been designed by industry leaders and has been set to standard. The apprenticeship exist over a 12 month period. Moreover, you will have mandatory qualifications in English and Maths before you can successfully pass through gateway.
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