Depot Support Driver/picker

5 months ago

Basildon, United Kingdom Nursery Kitchen Full time

**Depot Support**

Reports to: Logistics Supervisor/Logistics Manager

**Join our exceptional team**

We are passionate about making a real difference to children’s lives with tasty and nutritious food and outstanding early years education.

Our recipe for success is built on the experience of our team and their dedication to achieving our goals. So, we want to reward our team by creating the best place to work in early years food, where people can grow with us, create a lasting impact, and share in our success.

Whether our teams are creating or delivering delicious meals in our Nursery Kitchen, or are part of our management and support network, we want everyone to know they are connected to our purpose, trust they are valued and be able to fulfil their career ambitions.

The depot support role plays a key part in ensuring we;
- Are the best in class with our picking and delivery service
- Provide a professional, passionate and efficient customer experience
- Foster a passion for food, our vision, our values, our teams, and our partners

We are looking for someone with a passion for logistics, food, and children’s health and education who wants to drive real change for children. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop skills in a flexible, friendly, and creative environment.

**Perks of the role**
- Competitive salary
- Nursery discount for employees’ children
- Free hot drinks, breakfast, and lunch at our Basildon site
- A friendly, flexible team with social events throughout the year
- Ongoing training opportunities
- Health and wellbeing resources and support
- Free life coaching in the Dream Academy
- Discounted gym membership
- Access to a financial wellbeing service
- Specsavers eyecare vouchers

**About you**
- You will have a clear passion and track record in logistics.
- Outstanding communication & team work ethic.
- The ability to manage the day to day work load that you have been allocated.
- Outstanding team work
- A high degree of integrity
- A real ‘can do’ attitude and self-motivation is essential - we need our team to love working together
- Be proficient in literacy, mathematics and IT
- You must be eligible to work in the UK.
- A background in food production and/or logistics/warehousing would be an advantage
- Experience in leading a small team

**About the role**

The purpose of this role is to provide a section of support within an ever-growing shift duration, it's a varied role where one day you could be covering a delivery run, the next showcasing your exceptional picking skill and the next providing support to the drivers and pickers to replenish stock or helping load. You’ll need to have a passion for logistics with a keen eye for detail and a logístical mindset to ensure the efficiency and accuracy of our daily and nightly runs. Part of this efficiency will be to ensure that goods are being dispatched correctly by checking all picked stock before loading.

You will work closely with the driving team in guiding and assisting them in providing our partners with the best possible service.

This role will be ever evolving, therefore a ‘can-do’ attitude is a must, part of your ‘can-do’s’ will include the need to cover both driving and picking staff sickness and annual leave. There may also be the need to perform ad hoc deliveries and/or assist with picking when required.

As you will be working with chilled goods in a chilled environment, you will be required to work a portion of your shift in temperatures 3 degrees or below

**The basics (the boring bit)**
- **40 hours per week**:

- **5 days per week**:

- **Monday-Friday (EVENINGS)**:

- **1300-2130 (inc. 30 minute lunch break)**:

- **Ad-hoc overtime available**:

- **£26,500 per annum**

**Other Information**

This job description is not exhaustive, and the post holder is required to undertake any other reasonable duties as directed by the Logistics Supervisor/Logistics Manager.

We actively promote equal opportunities and are committed to equality and diversity for all our children and team. Applicants will be considered on merit only, irrespective of race, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, or belief.

A copy of the Company’s Equal Opportunities Policy and Disclosure Information Policy is available on request

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £26,500.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- No weekends

**Experience**:

- Picking & packing: 1 year (preferred)
- Delivery driving: 3 years (required)
- Driving: 8 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Evening #1

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