Despatch Service Operative - Nights - Worksop

Permanent - Full-Time

Salary: Up to 15.50 per hour

Shift Pattern: Alternating Wednesday to Saturday 17:30 - 05:30

Rate of Pay: 15.50 Per Hour

Overtime: Paid at x 1.25 after 48 hours

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life.

What you'll be doing:

• As a Despatch Materials Handler, you will be working between the Production windows and picking/stores area.
• Assisting in ensuring our products are produced to the highest quality and standards.
• Ensuring each window has the correct packaging and trays as well as enough to keep the lines moving.
• Responsible for ensuring product received from the production area is chilled to the correct temperature before being picked and despatched.
• This is a physical role which requires some heavy lifting.

Responsibilities:

• Setting up of lines ready for production to start - making sure correct packaging/trays/cages are available, correct labels are set up for printing.
• Ensuring tape machines are set up correctly and supplied with tape to keep lines running.
• Using hand pallet trucks to move packaging/materials throughout the area.
• Moving finished products from the production lines to the blast chills.
• Booking stock into the chills ready to be picked (using JBA guns).
• Completion of traceability paperwork for blast chilling (use by dates, temperatures, times).
• Counting of stock (both packaging and finished products) to ensure we always have adequate supply of packaging and to ensure correct amounts of finished stock are produced.
• Moving of finished products (cages, trays on wheels) to pick areas once chilled to be palletised and despatched.

What we're looking for:

• Previous experience in a similar role/food environment (Desirable, not necessary).
• Able to read and write in English.
• Basic level of Maths required (counting stock, using calculators, JBA guns).
• Ability to work under some pressure to ensure lines are serviced and able to run continuously.
• Great attention to detail (completing traceability paperwork, important to be accurate).
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
• Strong communication skills and desire to work with other team members.

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you'll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits.
• Holidays.
• Pension up to 8% matched.
• Life insurance up to 4x salary.
• Company share save scheme.
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform.

Please note due to high numbers of applications this role may be closed before the posted closing date.

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