Despatch Window Operative

Days – Wednesday to Saturday (Alt Wed) 17:00 – 05:00

Pay Rate – £14.61 per hour

Why Greencore?

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 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn.
Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop

Here at Manton Wood, we have a team of around 1,700 colleagues. We produce sandwiches and wraps for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Co-op, Asda, Morrisons, Boots, Aldi and Lidl.

Here at Manton Wood, we have a team of around 1,700 colleagues. We produce sandwiches and wraps for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Co-op, Asda, Morrisons, Boots, Aldi and Lidl.

What you\’ll be doing

As a Despatch Materials Handler, you will be working between the Production windows and picking/stores area. As an essential part of the Low-Risk team, you will be assisting in ensuring our products our produced to the highest quality and standards. You will be ensuring each window has the correct packaging and trays as well as enough to keeps the lines moving. You will also be responsible for ensuring product received from the production area is chilled to the correct temperature before being picked and despatched.

This 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

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

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
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform

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