Production and Warehousing - Order Picker
Production and Warehousing - Order Picker
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Order pickers find and check all the things on a customer's order and send them to be packed.
- Pick items to match the customer's order sheet
- Use voice-activated picking machines and hand scanners
- Check quality of items and put them in a trolley to be packed
- Choose suitable replacements where items have sold out
- Update customer records
- Pack items if you work in a small warehouse or help customers if you work in a store
You could work in a warehouse or at a store.
Your working environment may be physically demanding and cold.
Order Pickers tend to work between 37 to 40 hours a week. You could work evenings and weekends on shifts.
Starting: 拢14,000
Experienced: 拢23,000
There are no formal qualifications required to become an order pickers and you can apply directly to be an order picker.
Depending on where you work, you could do a:
- warehouse operative intermediate apprenticeship
- express delivery sortation hub operative intermediate apprenticeship
You'll usually need some GCSEs, usually including English and maths, or equivalent, for an intermediate apprenticeship. If you have an EHCP you may be able to apply under the DfE exemption which allows the apprentice to use Entry level 3 English and Maths qualifications. The apprentice would have to be component enough to successfully achieve all other aspects of the apprenticeship requirements, become occupationally competent and achieve Entry Level 3 in English and Maths before the end of their apprenticeship.