Job Description

Stores Assistant

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Here's what you'll be doing

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Location: Oldham & Rochdale Depot

Salary: 29,173-37,860

We are looking for a reliable and organised

Stores Assistant

to join our depot team in Oldham and Rochdale. This role is central to keeping depot operations running smoothly, supporting colleagues, and ensuring materials, equipment, and stock are managed safely and efficiently. The successful candidate will enjoy a hands-on role in a busy warehouse environment, contributing to safety, order, and the overall success of the depot team.

Key Responsibilities

Receiving and accepting incoming deliveries, checking items against delivery notes, and reporting any discrepancies or damage. Storing and organising stock in designated locations, maintaining safe and orderly storage areas, and supporting effective stock rotation and accessibility. Picking and issuing materials in line with authorised requests or job sheets, ensuring stock movements are recorded accurately. Supporting effective stock control by monitoring levels, identifying replenishment needs, and taking part in regular stock checks or inventories. Using warehouse equipment safely and correctly, following health and safety procedures, and helping to maintain a clean, safe, and hazard-free environment. Communicating effectively with colleagues, supervisors, and delivery drivers, while completing paperwork, updating stock systems, and accurately logging transactions. Collecting, segregating, and safely handling recyclable materials, ensuring correct placement, monitoring container levels, arranging timely collections, and maintaining clean, organised, hazard-free waste areas. Recording waste movements and using warehouse equipment safely when moving full containers to designated collection points. Supporting fleet safety and operational readiness by carrying out regular transport audits, conducting scheduled vehicle start-ups, and ensuring compliance with maintenance and operational standards.

What we need from you

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Experience working in a warehouse, depot or stores environment with understanding of health & safety practices IT skills, including using stock systems, email, MS Excel, SAP and handheld devices. Knowledge of stock control procedures such as booking in/out, labelling, and inventory processes. Ability to operate manual handling equipment (e.g., pallet trucks, sack trucks). Physical manual handling of materials, including lifting, carrying, and placing boxes e.g single bags of sand, tarmac, or other items as required.' Strong communication skills for working with supervisors, drivers, and field staff. Forklift Truck Licence (Counterbalance or Reach). Full UK Driving Licence

It would be great if you had

Experience handling PPE, materials or industrial stock. Experience working with delivery documentation (delivery notes, issue notes, stock transfers). Basic mechanical awareness for simple checks (e.g., daily forklift inspections). Knowledge of waste handling or recycling processes in a depot.

Here's what you need to know

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Award-Winning Workplace

- We're proud to be named a

Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025

and the

Best Place to Work for 16-34-year-olds

.

Outstanding Benefits

- Enjoy 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous pension, life cover, bonus opportunities, and access to 20 flexible benefits with tax/NI savings.

Flexible & Family-Friendly

- Our industry-leading hybrid and family-friendly policies earned us double recognition at the

Personnel Today Awards 2024

. We're open to discussing how flexibility can work for you.

Inclusive & Diverse

- We're the only energy company in the

Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers

. We're also proud winners of

Best Employer for Women

and

Human Company of the Year

--recognising our inclusive, people-first culture.

Support at Every Stage of Life

- We're

Fertility Friendly

and

Menopause Friendly

accredited, with inclusive support for everyone.

Accessible & Supportive

- As a

Disability Confident Employer

, we guarantee interviews for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria and will make any adjustments needed during the process.

Invested in Your Growth

- From inclusive talent networks to top-tier development programmes, we'll support your growth every step of the way.

At a glance

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Reference no.: 242505Closing date: 11/02/2026 Salary: 29,173-37,860

Get in touch

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If you have any questions please contact the Recruiter, melissa.newell@eonenergy.com. Please note, CV's emailed directly will not be considered.

About us

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E.ON is a privately owned international energy company. Our 75,000 colleagues in 15 countries work daily towards the improvement of technical innovations and user-friendly customer solutions for the new energy world. We are the first large energy company to focus more heavily upon the energy of the future through our three business areas of energy networks, renewable energies and customer solutions.

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Inclusion

It is important to us that people with disabilities have access to a fair application process, providing them with an opportunity to shine. Therefore, our representative body for severely disabled people will be included in the process from an early stage. Please let us know via the application form if you require technical or organisational adjustments during the application process. We will strive to make the required aids available.



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