Cylinder Operative

Job Overview & Key Responsibilities

As a Cylinder Operative, your daily routine operates in a safety-first warehouse environment where handling high-pressure vessels requires extreme attention to detail. Your main tasks include: 

Sorting & Handling: Safely loading, unloading, and storing gas cylinders into correct pallets, pens, or vehicles. 

Inspection & Quality Control: Checking cylinders before and after the filling process to spot sub-standard, leaking, or defective units, and separating them for maintenance. 

Gas Cylinder Filling: Operating filling machinery to fill cylinders efficiently according to strict quality guidelines and standard time frames. 

Documentation & Safety Audits: Carrying out mandatory daily pre-use inspection checks on moving equipment like trolleys and forklift trucks. 

⚙️ Shift Patterns & Compensation

Pay Rate: £15.80 per hour. 

Hours: 42 hours per week. 

Shift Rotation: Typically a two-week alternating schedule:

Week 1: Monday to Friday, 05:45am – 2:00pm

Week 2: Monday to Friday, 1:45pm – 10:00pm 

Perks: Opportunities for overtime and weekend work with attractive premium allowances. 

🎯 Candidate Requirements

Experience & Licences: A forklift (FLT) licence is preferable but not essential; the company is happy to provide full on-the-job forklift training for the right candidate.

Core Skills: Good communication, strong self-motivation, digital literacy (to operate tracking/filling software), and a safety-conscious mindset.

Hiring Prerequisites: Because of the hazardous nature of handling compressed gases, you must pass a face-to-face interview, a criminal record check, and a drug and alcohol/medical assessment before starting