Vacancy - Warehouse Technician
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time, 42.5hrs per week (including paid lunch break)
Location: Marlow, Bucks
Hours: 9.00am - 5.30pm
About Us
Founded in 2001, Siyan Ltd is a design and rental company servicing concerts, tours, festivals, and special events. Located in Marlow, just a stone's throw from the River Thames. We supply events across the UK, Europe, and beyond all year round. We have an extensive stock of lighting, video, and rigging equipment, our own vehicles, and a team of around thirty staff.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do, so we'll work with you to understand and achieve your career goals, helping you to develop your career within a professional and friendly environment. We offer private medical insurance to all employees.
About The Role
We are looking for proactive and efficient individuals who would like to work in a busy but friendly environment. The role involves:
- Counting equipment onto and off jobs, packaging it neatly into flight cases for hires, or putting it back in the correct part of the warehouse when it returns.
- Testing, cleaning, and coiling cables.
- De-taping and cleaning truss/metalwork.
- Painting truss/other metalwork as required.
- Assisting with loading and unloading trucks.
- Carrying out stock checks and assisting with company stock control procedures
- Driving company vehicles (vans upto 3.5T) to collect equipment from suppliers, delivering rentals to venues, etc
Our standard working hours are 9-5:30 (including a 30 minute paid lunch break), but due to the nature of the entertainment industry the role will include regular overtime, including early starts, late finishes and weekend working (6 weekend days over a 3 month period).
About You
Essential
- Attention to detail and high standards of workmanship
- Good level of written and verbal communication
- Strong numerical skills (a large part of the job involves accurately counting items)
- Ability to load and unload trucks and carry out other manual handling tasks safely
- Flexible attitude to overtime, including late nights, early mornings, and weekends
- Ability to work under pressure and meet critical deadlines
- Ability to follow company health & safety procedures and safe systems of work
- Full UK driving license
Desirable (we can provide additional training in all these areas)
- Basic electrical knowledge
- Counterbalance forklift license
- Full UK driving license
- Previous experience in the entertainment industry in a technical/backstage setting
Applying
Thank you for taking the time to read about us and about the role. To apply please send a CV and a paragraph about why you think you're the right person for the job to info@siyan.co.uk. We will try to reply to everyone, but if you haven't been contacted within 14 days of your application then you have not been successful on this occasion. Anyone applying or interested in applying is welcome to come and visit us first in order to find out more about our company.
Equal Opportunities
Siyan is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to making an inclusive environment for all our employees and are happy to make any reasonable arrangements in order to help you apply for this role. If you need any assistance or for us to make any special provisions, e-mail us atinfo@siyan.co.uk.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
We aim to employ a diverse range of talented people, who enjoy working at Siyan and have a fulfilling career with us. Our people should reflect the communities we serve, and we understand that some groups may experience additional barriers when applying for a new role. In order to positively address this, we offer a guaranteed interview to any applicant who meets the minimum criteria and declares they are from a BAME background, have a disability or are not male. If you wish to be considered under our guaranteed interview scheme, you must indicate this when sending in your application. By doing so you consent for this to be disclosed to the recruitment team in order to arrange an interview. If you do not wish to disclose this information we will be unable to guarantee you an interview and will consider your application alongside all other applications.