Despatch Operative

**Despatch Operative**:

- Due to our continued growth and success we are looking for two Despatch Operatives to join our Despatch team in Wrexham (LL13 9UG). The hours of work for this role are 4on 4off 17:45hrs to 06:00hrs

**What would you get for working here?**

If you have the Despatch Operative experience and skills we are looking for then you will receive a total reward package that includes:

- An annual salary of £25,798.50, increasing to £28,194.08 once fully trained
- 8% Pension Contribution
- 21 days annual leave (Inc of Bank Holidays)
- £250 refer-a-friend scheme
- Access to an exclusive employee benefits/discounts platform where you can save £££s on your everyday spends
- Excellent coffee machines available free-of-charge
- Professional development opportunities and qualifications
- A progressive working environment that puts its people at the heart of what it does
- Great opportunity for career development

**What would you be doing?**

Our Vision as a business is to be the “Go-to” supplier of bakery products, working nationally with retailers such as M&S and Waitrose on their premium private label range and regionally through the Village Bakery brand. In achieving this vision, we want to be recognised as a family business that continually invests in the future through the development of our people, quality and food safety culture, equipment and processes.

As a Despatch Operative you will be directly contributing to this vision through your core tasks and responsibilities these will include, but are not limited to:

- Customers will be allocated to you by line leaders on a daily basis, from the customer allocation.
- You must prepare, check and verify stock.
- Ensure stock is identified correctly, out of date stock must be segregated and moved to an appropriate area.
- Report any stock issues from allocation sheet to your supervisor.
- Palletise and locate stock when necessary, in accordance with specifications.
Ensure stock is picked in rotation and pallets are prepared ready for despatch.
- Use correctly and prevent damage to equipment, vehicles and machinery where applicable. Report any issues immediately to your supervisor.
- Recording and rotating chilled food products.
- Ensuring paperwork and delivery orders are completed and recorded
Keep work areas tidy and clean at all times.

**What skills and qualifications would you need?**

To be a successful Despatch Operative you will need to demonstrate the following skills, qualifications and attributes:
**Essential**
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong self-driven mindset
- Previous Despatch experience

**Desirable**
- Food manufacturing sector
- CPC license

So, who are we? If you haven’t heard of us before we are a family owned and managed Craft Bakery producing an award-winning range of Bread, Morning Goods, Pies and gluten free products.

Our business has been producing products in this category since 1964 and since then we have grown in success due to our reputation for quality, innovation and technical experience. As a result of this continued growth, we now operate from a number of world class and well invested bakeries in and around Wrexham, including our dedicated Gluten free site ‘Gluten Freedom’ and our state-of-the-art ‘Super Bakery’ at Ash Road.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team soon

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

Pay: £12.60 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Language training provided
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Store discount

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Wrexham Industrial Estate: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person