Warehouse Officer

**Warehouse Clerk, Grade 1-2, NSW SES State Warehouse, Coniston NSW**
- Fast-paced environment, attractive hours, joining a close-knit team
- Work in a volunteer-based agency supporting communities of NSW
- Full-time Ongoing role
- 35 hrs per week with opportunity to accrue flex time (may be required to work additional hours during operational activity)
- Based in Coniston NSW with on-site parking

**About the opportunity**

The NSW SES State Warehouse is the central hub responsible for the handling and distribution of critical equipment and inventory for our Volunteer Members and broader organisational stakeholders. The Warehouse Clerk is a core member of the team responsible for daily operational activities including receiving in and processing equipment, supporting inventory integrity, customer service, and packing and dispatching both standard and priority orders to Volunteer Units. Key challenges include dynamic stakeholder priorities and working with external stakeholders.

**About the NSW SES**

Our Mission: NSW SES saving lives and creating safer communities.

Our Vision: A trusted volunteer-based emergency service, working together to deliver excellence in community preparedness and emergency response.

The NSW SES serves the NSW community as the lead agency for floods, storms, and tsunamis as specified by the _State Emergency Service Act 1989_. We are recognised as the most versatile and widely used emergency service organisation in NSW. Our volunteers are highly skilled, experienced, and well
- trained in the wide variety of roles they perform.

Each NSW SES Unit is as unique and varied as the community it serves, reflecting the vast mix of risks faced and roles required in the diverse locations and communities across the state. In addition to flood, storm and tsunami, our Service provides specialist capabilities that include general land rescue, vertical rescue, road crash rescue, and alpine and remote area search and rescue. The NSW SES responded to over 64,000 requests for assistance from the community over the 2021-22 year.

The NSW SES has over 10,000 volunteer members, including reserves, and a
full-time equivalent workforce of over 450. There are 262 volunteer Units across the State and our volunteer Units are either local, community-based Units, State-wide or regional Units established to provide specialist capabilities. They are varied and unique in their capabilities, designed to address specific risks to communities of NSW.

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will:

- Have a positive and enthusiastic attitude with the ability to adapt to dynamic operational tempo
- Previous experience in a warehouse, customer service environment, or similar
- Have good proficiency with computers and relevant software (WMS, ERP, AMS)
- Elevated Work Platform (EWP) license and High-Risk Work (forklift) license or willingness to obtain

**What we can offer you**
- Employment with attractive leave entitlements including parental leave, recreation and flex leave and other leave entitlements
- Attractive salary package of up to $86,341.15 ($70,694 - $76,857) + leave loading + super
- Flexible work options working within operational requirements
- Mental Health & Wellbeing programs and services
- Access to our Corporate Partner Fitness Passport at any of their gyms across the state entitling you to a reduced rate when joining a participating gym
- Operational and leadership training and development opportunities via LinkedIn Learning and other training avenues to build and maintain skills
- Comprehensive immunisation programs including the flu vaccine
- Opportunities to build invaluable relationships across emergency service agencies, emergency service committees and other Government and community organisations.

**How to apply**
- A cover letter (maximum of one page) briefly responding to the **essential requirements** and your interest in the role;
- Responses to each of the **targeted questions **(maximum of one page per answer); and
- An up-to-date **resume** of no more than four pages detailing your skills and experience relevant to the role

**Targeted Questions**

1. Please tell us about how you would communicate a potential process improvement to a manager

2. Please tell us about a time where you faced a challenge or problem and what steps you took to overcome it

**Want to know more?**

The role description is available here.

**Talent Pool**

**Applications close**:11:59 Sunday, 25 February 2024