Ben Hargreaves
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Summary
Dedicated professional with extensive expertise in assembly and disassembly techniques and issue resolution. Demonstrates resilience to physical work and excels in manual handling, stocking, and loading. Proficient in hazardous material knowledge and biohazardous waste disposal, ensuring high quality standards and compliance with deadlines. Strong team player with excellent communication proficiency and customer service skills. Committed to maintaining health and safety awareness while adapting to changing conditions.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
2020
2020
years of post-secondary education
Work history
HSDU technician
royal stoke university hospital
2023.10 - 2025.06
- Working as a team and individual to hit daily targets while under pressure to perform.
- Ensuring all items that are named in lists are accounted for and checked for their quality.
- Timing skills as working in a hospital requires tasks and deliveries to be on time and correctly delivered.
- Problem solving, if something is missing it either needs replacing or reported as missing to ensure its known by others.
- Loading and unloading of goods, this requires putting surgical sets in the correct places in theatres and ensuring they are to standards.
- Great communication skills are needed for explaining situations to fellow workers or team leaders to ensure thing are done correctly and efficiently, also for talking to other workers in the hospital or to give directions to patients when I was out in the corridors delivering sets to theatres.
- Good organisational skills as were required to wear scrubs and certain footwear into sterile areas. Also while working in the hospital i worked at supplies warehouse where orders for wards would be picked and packed, also taking deliveries and checking each box against the delivery note to ensure all things stated work in the delivery, this was required as the products delivered were high value hospital supplies for surgical and practical use.
- Maintained a clean working environment, upheld compliance with health and safety regulations.
- Coordinated closely with wider team members for successful completion of tasks within deadlines.
warehouse operative
royal stoke university hospital
2022.11 - 2023.10
- Picking and packing orders for wards
- Taking deliveries and ensuring contents on the delivery notes match what was inside the boxes as they are high value products for surgery and practical use in the hospital
- Collaborated on stock checking routines, provided accurate inventory updates.
- Loaded and unloaded delivery vehicles, ensured safe transport of goods.
- Prepared items for timely dispatch and safe transportation.
- Listened closely to instructions, carrying out fast-paced picking and packing in line with targets.
warehouse operative
Dunelm
2020.11 - 2021.11
- Picking and packing parcels to go for delivery.
- Loading and unloading products from trucks
- Working in high demanding environment
- Hitting daily targets for packing parcels
- Shrink wrapping pallets and large boxes to go out for delivery
- Product count of entire warehouse good to see what products need ordering such as boxes, bubble wrap, tape, large cardboard boxes etc.
- Working as part of a large team and small teams
- Great communication skills to help and listen to others.
Education
None of these - Sports science and Anatomy
Newcastle Under Lyme college
Skills
- Assembly and disassembly techniques
- Safety compliance
- Issue resolution
- Resilience to physical work
- Punctuality reliability
- High energy levels
- Manual handling expertise
- Barcode scanner usage
- Weather resilience
- Perseverance under pressure
- Hazardous material knowledge
- Compliance with deadlines
- Team player
- Mathematics
- Health and safety awareness
- High quality standards
- Heavy manual lifting
- Stocking and loading
- Inventory control awareness
- Knowledge of autoclave operation
- Proficient in cross-contamination prevention
- Sterile storage management
- Stress resilience
- Working independently under pressure
- Disposal of biohazardous waste
- Documentation proficiency
- Customer Service
- Communication proficiency
- Adaptability to changing conditions
- Time management excellence
- Quality assurance focus
- Risk evaluation
- Client engagement
Timeline
HSDU technician
royal stoke university hospital
2023.10 - 2025.06
warehouse operative
royal stoke university hospital
2022.11 - 2023.10
warehouse operative
Dunelm
2020.11 - 2021.11
None of these - Sports science and Anatomy
Newcastle Under Lyme college