At a Glance
- Tasks: Operate forklifts, load/unload vehicles, and maintain yard safety standards.
- Company: Join Yeo Valley, a proud British brand producing top-quality dairy products.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive holidays, pension scheme, healthcare cashback, and staff discounts.
- Other info: Great opportunities for learning and career growth in a dynamic environment.
- Why this job: Be part of a friendly team making a real impact in the dairy industry.
- Qualifications: Must have a full UK driving licence and forklift licence; experience preferred.
The predicted salary is between 25000 - 30000 £ per year.
We are looking for a reliable and friendly operator to join the team at Isleport in this newly created role on site, Logistics Yard Operative. In this role, you will work as an integral part of a small team within Logistics at our Isleport Distribution site in Highbridge. Whilst ensuring the yard area is safe and operational, you will undertake a variety of routine and ad-hoc tasks to ensure we maintain the highest standards of product quality, health and safety and customer service for internal and external stakeholders. You will work regularly with other departments, ensuring company goals are achieved. This is a Monday to Friday position at 40 hours per week.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Daily, effective, safe operation of forklifts to load and unload vehicles and move a variety of pallets, equipment and objects around the site.
- Regular driving, manual loading and unloading of company vehicles, delivering a variety of materials between the Distribution site, Production sites, and other locations.
- Ensuring all equipment and company vehicles are properly cared for by the completion of effective cleaning, audits and basic maintenance tasks. You will rectify basic faults and escalate where required.
Sounds interesting, what do I need?
- Able to undertake manual tasks
- Effective communication
- Relevant work experience in a Distribution or Production environment
- Excellent time management
- Full UK Driving License
- Forklift license
Why should I join the family?
We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1900 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt. We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including:
- Competitive holiday allowance
- Non-contributory pension scheme
- Life cover
- Healthcare cash back plan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
- Preferential rates with our partners
- Learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow
Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us! Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time. Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.
Logistics Yard Operative - Isleport (Mon-Fri) in Highbridge employer: Yeo Valley
Yeo Valley is an excellent employer, offering a supportive and friendly work environment at our Isleport Distribution site in Highbridge. With a commitment to employee growth through learning and development opportunities, competitive benefits including a non-contributory pension scheme and healthcare cash back plan, and the chance to be part of a proud British brand producing high-quality dairy products, we ensure that our team members feel valued and motivated every day.
