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SalaryGoods In Logistic Operative – Bakkavor Desserts Newark
Proud to deliver high quality products and develop high quality careers!
Pay Rate: £12.00 per hour
Shift: Days
Shift Pattern: 4on 4off
Shift Hours: 05:00am-17.00pm
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Newark NG24 2ER
What you’ll receive.
As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.
You’ll enjoy.
- Competitive salary & job-related benefits
- Stakeholder pension scheme (5% employee contribution & 3% employer contribution)
- Free independent mortgage advice
- Employee assistance programme
- Access to more than 3000 Highstreet & major retailer discounts via ‘MyBargains’
- Life Assurance (1 x salary) should the worst happen
- Discounted Staff Shop
- First class Training & Development and Career Pathways
- A range of voluntary benefits including discounted gym membership, dental, medical care
- Overtime payment options from x1.25 to x2.00 (Site variances & Ts & Cs apply)
- Discounted tutoring for children
- Access to financial education tools to help your financial wellbeing
- Affordable loans via your salary
- A range of recognition schemes such as Proud to be and loyal service awards
- Refer a friend scheme £250 Incentive for each referral (Ts & Cs apply)
- Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions
- Free Car Parking
- Free vend hot drinks machines*
- Free or Subsidised Bus Service Available (Ts & Cs apply) *
- Not available at all sites
Why join us?
We’re proud to give our Logistics Operatives the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career within a small and friendly team. We nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards.
We’re proud of what we do, why we do it and who we do it for. We’re proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. We’re proud of our caring culture, loyal colleagues and future focus. But, most of all, we’re proud to enable and empower everyone to believe, achieve and succeed.
We’re proud to offer you a career with real opportunity.
What we do.
This particular role is at our Bakkavor Desserts site based in Newark. Newark Desserts specialise in chilled desserts such as trifles as well as cream cakes, éclairs, doughnuts, profiteroles, and choux buns. We are Number 1 in cream cake and trifle production in the UK.
The site employs over 1,900 people and is one of eight factories that are part of the Bakkavor Bakery sector in the UK.
About the role.
We manufacture a wide range of high-quality chilled products for our dedicated customers at our Bakkavor sites. Our production lines are non-stop, so you’ll be kept busy creating our products. Working right at the heart of our fast-paced, high-pressured environment, you’ll enjoy plenty of variety, be encouraged to find where your strengths lie and supported to achieve your full potential.
Logistics Base Operative duties may include:
- Preparation of goods for transportation
- Receiving, unloading, and checking of deliveries
- Replenishment of end-of-line, despatch and logistics areas with crates, pallets, and other goods as required
- Counting of stock
- Transferring and disposal of materials
- Monitoring of areas (including despatch, de-box, loading bays and perimeter) for required temperatures.
- Cleanliness of above areas; ensuring high GMP standards
- Completion of machinery start-up checks
About you.
- Relevant Logistics/Stores/Despatch experience, which has ideally been within the food-manufacturing or warehousing environment
- Good computer literacy skills (Excel, Word, database system)
- Flexible and willing to undertake other roles/responsibilities if required
- Capable of working on own initiative with the ability and confidence to make decisions
- High degree of accuracy and strong attention to detail
- Knowledge of warehouse systems
- Stock take/check experience
In return, we’ll give you all the training you need. We’ll also offer you the encouragement, support and opportunity to develop your career and take it as far as you can, or as far as you want to go, within our large multinational company.
Proud to be Bakkavor.
We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!
