Cargo Services Warehouse Operative
| Contract Type: | Permanent |
| Hours: | 40 hours per week |
| Remuneration: | £25,729.10 per annum |
| Closing Date: | 22/02/2026 |
- Job Description
- Application Notes
Job Description
We have a great opportunity for a Cargo Services Warehouse Operative to join our Cargo Services team at Glasgow Prestwick Airport in a fast-paced, 24/7 operational environment.
Glasgow Prestwick Airport is a fast-paced, 24/7 aviation services provider delivering passenger travel, air cargo, training flights, and world-class MRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul) services. Home to the longest commercial runway north of Manchester, we play a critical role in global connectivity and Scotland’s economy, with over 450 employees and supporting more than 4,000 jobs across the region.
This is a permanent role, reporting directly to the Cargo Services Business Manager, 40 hours per week, Monday to Sunday on a rotational shift basis, including weekend and night working.
Due to working time regulations and shift patterns, you must be 18 or over to apply for this vacancy. As shift times are often out-with public transport hours, own means of transportation is essential.
- Receive, unload, check and store export cargo for processing.
- Receive, unload, check and store import cargo from flight or truck ensuring it is stored in the correct shed/area awaiting customs clearance.
- Obtain offload pallet information from office and instruct operatives on pallets for breakdown and pallets as through units.
- Document, photograph and notify office staff of any damage noted during unload process for either export or import cargo, ensure correct damage report form completed.
- Complete HMRC tally and advise office of any shortages/overages received from aircraft/trucks.
- Advise office staff of any shortages of cargo received into warehouses ensuring it is noted on the driver’s delivery line.
- Operate forklift trucks in a safe and secure manner.
- Preparing airline pallet equipment for loading ensuring polythene is used to protect freight from adverse weather.
- Prepare unknown cargo for REST if required by fully enclosing into an airtight condition using polythene and shrink wrap.
- Assemble, load, weight, cover and tie down export loads as required, using related equipment for this purpose e.g. cardboard corners, straps, nets etc.
- Build up cargo onto aircraft pallets, full compliance with dangerous goods segregation and tie down requirements as per airline manuals.
- Operate weighbridges safely as per the manufacturers’ operating instructions.
- Comply with all customer procedures to guarantee flight safety without exception.
- Full compliance with speed limits within warehouses and compliance on the ramp and roadside environments as per ASAT with safe and secure working practices at all times.
- Ensure security of all cargo within the care of GP Bond, ensuring no unauthorised personnel are within the Bonds and personnel challenged if unsure.
- Identify, assemble and load trucks with cleared cargo once clearance has been approved by HMRC and a release note or transfer manifest has been issued.
- Comply with employee responsibilities to Health & Safety regulations.
- Remove nets and polythene from import pallets for breakdown in a safe manner, utilising pits if required.
- Work polythene bailer in a safe manner.
- 18+
- Comply with UK Right to Work checks and provide associated relevant documentation at interview.
- Confirm your identity by providing a copy of your passport or driving licence.
- Upon request, provide GPA with a complete five-year referencing history inclusive of all employment, self-employment, and education. Any gap period of 28 days or more must be covered by a personal reference to which you must also provide contact details.
- Upon request, provide a Criminal Record Check Certificate (Basic Disclosure) from Disclosure Scotland. This must not display any disqualifying convictions as detailed on the Civil Aviation Authority website.
- Where applicable, undertake a Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) and understand that deployment to any security related activities is conditional upon the satisfactory result of such a check.
- Cash Health Care Plan (after six months employment).
- Life Assurance 4 x salary (after six months employment).
- Auto enrolled into our Pension Scheme (after 3 months employment) – enhanced upon request.
- Electric Car Scheme.
- Bike 2 Work scheme.
- Technology scheme (December).
- Uniform (as required).
- Enhanced Annual leave, depending on service length.
- Free Parking.
- Staff discounts in partnership with Dufry World Duty Free, access to their Staff Shopping Website with an excellent 30% discount on most brands across the site.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to applying equal opportunities at all stages of our recruitment and selection process. Reasonable adjustments will be made to our recruitment process to ensure that no applicant is disadvantaged.
Application Notes
Pre-Application Considerations
Please note that to work at Glasgow Prestwick Airport Ltd (GPAL) it is required that you are able to:
- Comply with UK Right to Work checks and provide associated relevant documentation.
- Confirm your identity by providing a copy of your passport or driving licence.
- Complete this Application Form and in doing so provide GPAL with a five-year referencing history inclusive of a reference from a personal acquaintance to cover any gaps in employment of 28 days or more.
- Provide a Criminal Record Check Certificate (Basic Disclosure) from Disclosure Scotland. This must not display any disqualifying convictions as detailed on the Civil Aviation Authority website.
- Where applicable (for security-related roles) undertake a Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) and understand that deployment to any security-related activities is conditional upon the satisfactory result of such a check.
Notes for Guidance
This is a standard Application Form that must be completed by all applicants for any position at GPAL. All information will be processed in accordance with our responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 2018. This Form is the first part of the selection process and will be used to shortlist for the next stage in the recruitment process where relevant. Please complete all sections fully and emphasise any areas where you believe you meet the requirements of the job in accordance with the job advert/role applied for.
Medical Information and Drugs & Alcohol Testing
Any offer of employment is subject to the completion of a New Starter Health Questionnaire via our chosen occupational health provider as well as passing a pre-employment Drugs & Alcohol Test.
Disclosure of Criminal Convictions
Your employment is subject to a satisfactory Criminal Record Check (Basic Disclosure) from Disclosure Scotland in accordance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Police Act 1997 (or an equivalent/additional check if you have lived outside the UK for more than six months in the last five years). Please list all convictions, cautions, reprimands or other warnings of whatever nature on your Application Form. All information will, of course, be treated in the strictest confidence.
Equal Opportunities
We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants/employees. It is our policy to ensure that there is no direct or indirect discrimination against any applicant/employee because of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex or sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (known as “protected characteristics”). Shortlisting is carefully monitored to ensure that selection is based on merit only.
View our Equal Opportunities Policy
We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and guarantee interviews for any applicants with disabilities if they meet the essential criteria for the post, which is assessed from their Application Form.
Please help us to monitor the effectiveness of our Policy by completing all parts of our optional Equal Opportunities Form.
Next Steps
Unfortunately, it is not possible for us to reply to every individual application. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within six weeks of the advertised closing date, you can assume that your application has been unsuccessful. We will respond to all candidates interviewed to advise them of the progress of their application.
Any documents provided as part of the application process will be confidentially destroyed after twelve months for unsuccessful candidates.
We wish to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in working at GPAL.