Warehouse, Factory & Production Staff in Margate, Kent

Margate’s industrial work is concentrated on the Westwood Industrial Estate, where warehousing and model manufacturing sit alongside the small trade and engineering units along Continental Approach. Engine Works Park opened there in May 2026 with 126,000 sq ft across 59 SME units, and gaps on a site like that come in twos and threes: a packing bench short, an assembly cell down. Staff Assured fills them by moving a crew as one unit. Workers travel in on London services to our pickup hub at Woolwich, and we drive them out from there in our own 7 to 9 seat vehicles. That covers the leg county buses and rail handle worst first thing, and it is what makes an early gate start on the estate realistic.

Beyond filling the vacancy

We take on the whole chain behind a shift, not just the advert at the front of it: sourcing, screening, onboarding, compliant payroll and the logistics of getting people to the gate. That might be one specialist hire, or a crew mobilised at short notice when an order lands late. Recruitment, deployment, pay and transport sit under one roof, so there is no gap between whoever found the worker and whoever was meant to get them to Margate. We also work to keep the same team on the same line while the volume lasts.

What you can see in the portal

Clients get a login to our workforce portal. Ahead of a shift you can see who is booked, open a worker’s profile to check their documents, and decline anyone you would rather not have back. On the day it shows who has clocked in. Shifts can be added, extended or cancelled, and timesheets checked against clock-in records before invoicing.

Why employers here choose us

Retail and care recruit hard from the same local pool, and Westwood Cross next door absorbs much of the available part-time labour, so an industrial vacancy here can sit open for weeks. One managed journey is more predictable than eight separate early commutes, and Staff Assured knows before the shift starts whether the crew is on the road. It also lets an employer here tap into the London labour market.

Production and warehouse roles we fill in Margate

The roles we recruit for around Westwood Industrial Estate are production and distribution jobs: line operatives, assemblers, machine operators, pickers and packers, goods-in and dispatch hands, loaders, and counterbalance or reach forklift drivers where the ticket checks out. Hornby Hobbies works from the estate, with light engineering and finishing in the smaller units, where losing two people empties a shift. We can have a crew at a unit on Continental Approach for a 06:00 start, on days, backs or a rolling early-late pattern.

Getting a crew to your gate

Woolwich is the pickup point for Margate: south of the river, on Zone 4 rail, so workers can reach it early on the Tube, DLR, rail or bus, services that start sooner and run more often than anything in east Kent. Nobody is collected from home. The crew meets at the hub and one vehicle takes them the 68.5 miles down, about 90 minutes, with the A254 Margate Road giving the final approach. Lewisham is the backup pickup.

Right to work and vetting

Right-to-work checks are completed and verified before anyone is put forward, and the documents sit on the worker’s profile for you to look at. Payroll is run compliantly, with holiday pay accrued. Where a role needs a licence or ticket, we see it first.

How we quote

We quote a range until the site, shift pattern and headcount are confirmed. The rate covers pay, holiday accrual, employer National Insurance and any certification the role requires, plus transport per shift where we run the crew in, costed from the real journey and spread across the crew.

Other work we cover

We also cover construction, retail, hotel and hospitality work, and care, a substantial employer across Thanet.

Send us the Margate site, the shift pattern you need covered and the headcount, and we will come back with a rate range and the earliest morning we can be at the gate. Staff Assured can scale from a single operative to a full crew.