Warehouse Staff Agency in Looe
Warehouse operatives, pickers, packers and goods-in staff, in the volume a site actually needs, supplied to operators in Looe and the South West as temporary cover.
Why Looe operators come back
The seasonal swing around Looe is among the largest in England — summer volumes several times the winter baseline — and no operator carries that difference in permanent headcount.
The freight geography around Looe runs on the M5 south of Exeter, the A30, the A38 Devon Expressway, the A390 and A361, Cornwall Airport Newquay and the ports at Plymouth, Falmouth and Fowey. Operators draw on Langage at Plympton and the A38 approaches east of Plymouth and the employers booking temporary staff here are typically regional foodservice and drinks distributors supplying hospitality across the peninsula.
Hospitality across the peninsula orders more often and in smaller quantities in season, which raises the drop count and the driver requirement more than the tonnage suggests.
Cover for Looe is arranged nationally, which is what lets us match the worker to the seat rather than to the postcode. Every driver and warehouse operative is vetted against your booking before confirmation, then travels in for the shift.
The people we supply
Site requirements do the filtering and each one narrows the field. Steel toecaps and a hi-vis standard, a numeracy or picking test, an induction slot that only runs on certain days, a security search on the way out. Any of them can turn a filled booking into a half-filled one on the morning.
The only number that matters on a volume booking is how many people are stood on the floor when the shift starts and it is never the number confirmed on Friday afternoon. Over-confirming and hoping is the standard failure in warehouse supply. A smaller number that turns up lets a site plan the morning properly and that is worth more than an optimistic total.
Typical shifts
Early AM foodservice and drinks deliveries into hotels, pubs and holiday parks, finished before the roads fill up.
Warehouse cover runs around the clock on large sites — mornings, afternoons, twilight and nights, with 4-on-4-off and weekend blocks. Peak brings additional twilight and weekend shifts.
An induction desk that processes a few people at a time cannot absorb a whole shift's worth of new starters at six on a Monday, whatever the booking says. The desk becomes the bottleneck, people stand in a corridor being paid and the floor still starts short. Volume that lands in staggered groups across the first two days actually reaches the pick face.
Our vetting standard
Same-day where the pool allows — None of this is a formality. A worker who fails any of these does not get offered the shift and occasionally that means we hand a booking back rather than fill it badly.
- Right to work verified from original documents.
- References taken.
- Where the role requires it, accredited equipment tickets and a basic DBS check.
- Site inductions and PPE requirements confirmed on the booking, not on the morning.
Rates explained
Every worker is on PAYE and receives a Key Information Document before terms are agreed, setting out the pay cycle, who employs them and what is deducted. Nothing is charged to a worker for finding them work. Holiday accrues under the Working Time Regulations and shows on the payslip rather than folded invisibly into a rate.
Equal treatment on pay and basic conditions applies after 12 weeks in the same role under the Agency Workers Regulations 2010. We hold the count per worker per role and raise it with you before the threshold rather than on the invoice that follows it.
Current shifts
Real assignments only. If there is nothing listed, nothing is live for this role at the moment. Register with your licence details and availability and we will contact you when that changes.
Frequently asked
How quickly can you cover a warehouse shift in Looe?
We aim to confirm or decline within the hour on a same-day request, because an unanswered booking is worse for you than a no. Next-day requests are confirmed the same working day.
What do you check before a warehouse starts work in Looe?
Right to work verified from original documents. References taken. Where the role requires it, accredited equipment tickets and a basic DBS check. Site inductions and PPE requirements confirmed on the booking, not on the morning. The check happens before confirmation and the record is auditable. If your own compliance team wants to see it, they can, which is the point of keeping it digitally rather than in a drawer.
How does invoicing work for temporary staff in Looe?
The timesheet comes to you first. You approve it or reject it with a reason and only approved lines reach an invoice — which means the invoice should never be the first time you see a number you disagree with.
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Tell us who you need
Give us the class, the count, the dates and the shift. We confirm what we can cover and say plainly when we cannot.