Our three distribution centres represent the lifeblood of our business – delivering in-night services to our branches and ensuring our customers get the products they need when they need them. There’s a wide variety of roles within the sites at Martson Gate, Melmerby and Measham with everyone completely focused on ensuring stock moves quickly and in great condition from our suppliers to those who need it – whilst ensuring the very highest of safety standards. Our sites run multiple shift patterns for operatives, and offer great career progression where our colleagues can obtain training and apprenticeships through our Wolseley Talent Guild to move up through the ranks – to shift supervisors and team leaders, through operations managers and all the way up to being General Manager.

An operation the scale of ours requires expertise and a best practice approach to moving product. Our transport teams, both on our own fleet and with our third-party suppliers, provide that expertise and work across our business to ensure that we safely and consistently get product to our customers on time and in full in the most cost-effective way possible. We set exceptionally high standards, and work across our fleet to constantly push ourselves to beat industry benchmarks – with FORS (Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme) Gold and Silver standards in place across many of our operations and the route to more Gold certifications being a core target for the team.

When you have so many aspects to your business, as we do, controlled and proactive inventory management is absolutely key to our collective success. Our inventory team is chock-full of expertise and utilises the very best of systems and exceptional relationships with suppliers to ensure that our stock availability, turnover and capacity is the best in the trade. This is a team with a far reach across our business, and a great reputation – even when confronted with global pandemics and global supply pressures, they keep the business moving and keep our customers on the front foot.