Stores Person
CompanyThalia Waste Management
Location
Knaresborough, England, United Kingdom
Employment TypeFull-time
Posted At4/30/2026
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Occupation TypeWarehouse operatives
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled - Extending
Sponsorship EligibilityIneligible for Sponsorship
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Description
Role Overview
The Site Stores Assistant supports the day-to-day running of the stores function within a waste recovery facility. The role involves receiving, storing, issuing and monitoring stock, ensuring that materials, spare parts and equipment are readily available to support maintenance and operational activities. The postholder will contribute to maintaining accurate inventory records and ensuring compliance with health, safety and environmental standards.
Key Responsibilities
The Site Stores Assistant supports the day-to-day running of the stores function within a waste recovery facility. The role involves receiving, storing, issuing and monitoring stock, ensuring that materials, spare parts and equipment are readily available to support maintenance and operational activities. The postholder will contribute to maintaining accurate inventory records and ensuring compliance with health, safety and environmental standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Receive, check and book in deliveries against purchase orders and delivery notes
- Inspect goods for damage, accuracy and quality, reporting any discrepancies
- Store items in an organised and safe manner, ensuring correct labelling and stock location
- Issue parts, tools and consumables to engineering and operations teams as required
- Update inventory records using stock control systems (e.g. Pirana, SAP, Maximo or similar)
- Carry out regular stock checks and support periodic stocktakes
- Maintain appropriate stock levels and notify supervisors of shortages or reordering requirements
- Handle and store hazardous materials in accordance with COSHH regulations and site procedures
- Prepare and stage materials for planned maintenance activities and outages
- Maintain a clean, tidy and compliant stores environment in line with HSE and Site standards
- Support continuous improvement initiatives within the stores and logistics function
- GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and Maths
- Previous experience in a stores, warehouse or inventory role, ideally within an industrial, engineering or energy environment
- Familiarity with stock control or inventory management systems
- Basic knowledge of mechanical and electrical components (desirable)
- Good IT skills, including use of standard office software
- Forklift truck licence (desirable)
- Ability to undertake manual handling tasks safely
- Willingness to work shifts if required
- Understanding of health and safety legislation relevant to industrial workplaces
- Entry into Company bonus scheme - up to 5%
- Thalia’s pension contribution is 3% and your contribution is 5%
- 24 days annual leave
- Annual opportunity to buy additional annual leave (up to 5 days)
- Life assurance: 2 x annual salary
- Flexible benefits: Access to a wide range of flexible benefits through Bravo Benefits, allowing you to tailor your package to suit your individual needs, including health, wellbeing, and lifestyle options.
- Free parking
At Thalia Waste Management, we are creating a future to be proud of. We think differently, questioning everything, enabling us to develop progressive waste into energy solutions and services. Being motivated, tackling problems together, inspiring others to take responsibility, making a difference, being ambitious and contributing value.
We operate the best technology available across our four strategic sites in North Yorkshire, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Wight. Our technology includes everything from mechanical and biological treatment, traditional mass-burn energy from waste and material recycling technologies to in-vessel composting, advanced thermal treatment, innovative small-scale energy from waste and anaerobic digestion. In a single year we process 300,000 tonnes of waste that is turned into energy. This generates the same amount of energy as approximately 600 million solar panels. Similarly we recycle circa 95,000 tonnes of waste.
Inclusion
At Thalia Waste Management, we work hard to make sure we are an inclusive and diverse place to work. This means we don’t just look at your CV, we’re focused on who you are, your skills and passion that can be brought to Thalia Waste Management. We know and understand the everyone is different and has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working and any adjustments that could be needed! We’ll do all that we can to support everyone from their first contact with us. For any support or adjustments needed through our recruitment process, please speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. As a Disability Confident Employer, we will make sure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.