Wave Allocation Clerk

Grade: O
Contract Type: Permanent (Full-Time)
Shift patterns: Any 5 from 7 (Primarily Monday- Friday) 6am-2pm / 2pm-10pm Rotation
Location: Manton Wood, Worksop

If you're highly organised, confident working with systems and enjoy being at the heart of a busy warehouse operation, this could be a great opportunity. As a Wave & Allocation Clerk, you'll play an important role in keeping customer orders moving, ensuring stock and workload are allocated effectively and work is released to operational teams at the right time.

You'll balance changing priorities, monitor progress and work closely with operational teams to help keep everything on track. It's a role where attention to detail, problem-solving and confident decision-making can make a real difference to daily performance.

A TYPICAL DAY MAY INVOLVE

• Reviewing and prioritising customer orders based on operational requirements and shipping deadlines.
• Allocating stock and releasing waves of work to ensure picking activity flows efficiently.
• Monitoring orders through picking, packing and dispatch, adjusting plans when priorities change.
• Working closely the operational team to communicate workload, priorities and potential issues.
• Producing operational reports and KPI updates while maintaining accurate information within warehouse systems.

THIS ROLE WOULD SUIT PEOPLE WHO

• Are organised, detail-focused and comfortable managing multiple priorities.
• Are confident using warehouse systems and working with data to make informed decisions.
• Enjoy problem-solving and can respond quickly when priorities or operational requirements change.
• Have strong communication skills and enjoy working closely with different operational teams.
• Are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and have good Microsoft Excel skills, SAP experience is desirable but not essential.

WHY JOIN US?

• Join our generous pension scheme and benefit from an 8% employer contribution, alongside a 4% employee contribution
• Free confidential 24/7 GP consultations
• Hundreds of retail and lifestyle discounts
• Affordable loans, savings schemes and free mortgage advice
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WHO WE ARE

We're the global leaders in supply chain management with 188,000 people in over 50 countries. Our expert teams work together to deliver for our customers across a range of industries including retail, automotive, healthcare and more.

BUILDING AN INCLUSIVE WORKPLACE

At DHL, we're all about creating a workplace where everyone's skills and experiences matter, and where you can be your true self every day.

As proud supporters of the Armed Forces Covenant, we value the skills and experience of ex-service personnel and are dedicated to helping our veterans find jobs.

Please be aware that interviews are provisionally scheduled to take place during the week commencing 5th October 2026. Applications received after this date may not be considered but will be added to our talent pool for future opportunities, subject to your consent. Please also be aware that we review applications continuously and where we have a large number of applications the application period may close ahead of the provisional interview date. To ensure your application is considered we recommend submitting it as early as possible.