SIG Roofing to bring new jobs to Bristol

SIG Roofing, the UK’s largest specialist distributor of roofing related products, is investing £4m into a new distribution hub in More+ Central Park.

The 31,617 sq ft warehouse unit, signed on a ten year lease, will be the region’s new distribution centre. It is intended to secure jobs in the area, and to attract investment. SIG is expected to move into its new base in the summer of 2020.

Jonathan Robinson, Barberry development director, said: “More+ Central Park has been a fantastic success story and has proved attractive to many major companies.

“It is the ideal location for SIG Roofing’s new regional distribution centre, prominently located next to the M49 near junction one, and will provide a welcome investment and employment boost for the area.”

Divisional managing director for the South George King added: “The launch of a brand new hub in Bristol is an exciting step for SIG Roofing that will help make us, as a business, more efficient and stronger.

“This major investment programme signifies our commitment to providing a first-rate service to our customers, whilst also future proofing our business to further cement our number one position in the market.”

Amazon may be using robots in its warehouses worldwide nowadays, but most warehouses and other storage facilities still rely on manual labour to fulfil tasks. These positions are likely to be filled by temporary workers, obtained via an agency, particularly around holiday seasons.

Many temp agencies still pay their employees using timesheets to record the working hours. The temp worker fills them in weekly with their hours and sends them to the agency. Sometimes these are digital timesheets, using Microsoft Office or PDF, and sometimes they go all the way back in technology to pen and paper.

This kind of payroll process is fraught with possibilities for errors and outright fraud. Not only is it possible for the worker to submit an incorrect timesheet, as often agency timesheets aren’t signed off by the worker’s supervisor, but the process of typing out all these handwritten timesheets into an Excel document or whatever the company payment software requires is very likely to yield typos which change the end payment.

In order to stay on the right side of the National Minimum Wage regulations and the European Working Time Directive, sensible and forward-thinking companies should invest in technology to remove these weaknesses.

Our time and attendance system collects clocking data via radio-frequency smart-cards or fingerprint biometrics. Once workers clock in, the data is sent straight to the centralised software. From there, it can be easily exported or used to create reports with our helpful report wizard.

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