BSS Magna Park is home to over 130 colleagues covering a range of roles including Warehouse Operatives and Supervisors, Operations Managers, Hire Service Engineers, Administrators, Stock Controllers, and Inventory Planners. There are approximately 40 operational colleagues working on each shift (plus office and support colleagues).
The site operates 24 hours a day, Monday to Friday, so our colleagues, like our customers, get their weekends to themselves. The main daily shift patterns are:
- 06:00 to 14:00
- 12:00 to 20:00;
- 14:00 to 22:00
- 22:00 to 06:00
However, we also embrace flexibility and have a number of colleagues that work between these shifts or part-time
Our warehouse colleagues are responsible for, on average, picking 6,000 orders and delivering them to our branches across England, Scotland and Wales each day. The work with various types of material-handling equipment (MHE), including hand pallet trucks, powered pallet trucks (PPTs), low-level order pickers (LLOP), reach trucks, counterbalance trucks and VNAs (very narrow aisle).
BSS are proud to operate a lithium-ion MHE fleet which allows us to charge the forklift trucks, eliminating battery-changing and reducing carbon emissions.
We also operate a small workshop where our Hire Service Engineers use all manner of hand tools, testing and calibration equipment to service and maintain the equipment our customers can hire from us.
Our recently renovated onsite canteen povides a rest haven during break periods, with access to a TV, microwave, snack vending machine, water cooler and unlimited hot drinks. Plus a food van visits our site daily selling a range of drinks, snacks, fresh sandwiches, pasties, salads and hot food.
Colleagues are allocated a locker to keep their possessions secure during their time on site, and as part of our investment in colleague well-beingwe have plans to create an on-site well-being room.
Our social and charity committees arrange activities to support our nominated charity partner, Mind - the Mental Health Charity but also to have some fun including ‘Soak the Manager’, fancy dress competitions, quizzes and sweepstakes.
We also hold events, both on-site and externally (from Christmas dinner in our warehouse to clay pigeon shooting, bottomless brunches and bowling) to recognise hard work, achievements and celebrate success.
And during a heatwave, we are known for our love of ice creams!
We have been utilising an initiative called Pooling of Resource (POR) where we train warehouse colleagues to be able to work in other departments. This has enabled us to not only cover holidays, sickness & absence but allows colleagues to develop new skills and gain experience. This includes HGV drivers, Hire Service Engineers, Engineering Technicians and Warehouse Operatives.
We have also launched our own DC Safety Forum where managers and colleague representatives meet each month to discuss all things health and safety, taking a proactive approach to colleague wellbeing on site.
Magna Park is located close to Lutterworth between Rugby, Coventry, and Leicester. It is easily accessible from major roads including the M1, M6 and M69.
Whilst travel by car is the easiest method of transport, Magna Park also benefits from regular bus services from across the local area, operated by Arriva. Additionally, GLP, the owner of Magna Park, has partnered with Liftshare to offer a free Liftshare scheme to all park employees; supporting key workers to access the park with ease, save commuting costs and travel sustainably.
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Meet
Maria
Maria works as an Operations Controller in the Admin and Stock Control department. She is responsible for a number of things, but primarily providing excellent customer service.
We asked what she enjoys most about her role, and she said “The fact that I can work closely with all departments (Warehouse, Inventory & Transport) plus branches and learn from them. The opportunity to grow excites me to work harder and give my very best at work.”
Meet
Josh
Josh works as a Warehouse Operative and has been with us for just over two years. He recently enrolled on the First Line Management apprenticeship which is a level 3 team-leading apprenticeship equivalent to 2 A levels and entails learning the different management techniques and various other aspects. We asked him which one of our values resonates with him the most, and he said, “We’re better together. For me this is the most important, I believe when we have a good team working together we can handle any challenge that gets thrown our way.”
Meet
Gytis
Gytis started as Operations Manager in the Warehouse 3 months ago, after moving from our Travis Perkins distribution centre in Northampton where he worked for a number of years. The aspects he most enjoys about his role are working with colleagues on improving our ways, developing our next leaders and making sure that everyone has a safe environment to work in. He told us that we’re better together because “If we can utilise our unique strengths we will succeed in achieving great results - winning together gives me great satisfaction.”