Stores Operative

Bells of Lazonby have an exciting opportunity for a Stores Operativeto join the team.

Location: Lazonby, Cumbria

Salary: : £12.02 – £15.03 per hour + 25% overtime rates

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

About Us:

Do you Love Cake? Do you want to work within a growing local family business? Then we have the role for you. Due to sustained and continued growth, we require more people to work within the hygiene team maintaining high standards of cleanliness around all areas of the factory.

We are an established family bakery with a taste for quality, having created delicious products for over 75 years. We produce baked goods for retail and food service. We operate two bakeries: a conventional Bakery and a dedicated Gluten, Wheat and Milk Free Bakery avoiding 12 out of the 14 notifiable allergens.

We specialise in cake and sweet pastry tart products and supply all the major UK retailers with ambient Free From Ranges and a number of the leading Coffee Shop Chains with ambient and frozen ranges.

Our Values:

We guide our business by three core values in which we encourage all our employees to live by:

- Family: To maintain our ethos of supporting each other as one team and nurturing talent to produce baked goods that we would be proud to serve to our own families

- Innovation: To spot the latest trends in our industry before they happen and encourage open creativity and blue sky thinking within all of our team

- Quality: We pride ourselves on working with the best suppliers for our ingredients and have achieved the highest BRC accreditation grade of AA. We are RSPO Accredited, Vegan Society approved, and Coeliac society approved.

Stores Operative– Key Responsibilities:

- Work in a safe manner, reporting any issues to the appropriate person as required

- Responsible for efficiently meeting all stores work requirements allocated to you by following operating procedures and works instructions

- Handle goods inward and outward as appropriate and checking quality as required

- Ensure effective stock rotation and handling of stock

- Provide required stock/ ingredients to departments within appropriate time scale

- Work as a member of a team helping to implement and carry out all company working practices and achieve team objectives

- Complete accurately and store HACCP paperwork as required and within appropriate time scales

- Identify and suggest ideas for improvement

- Take responsibility for own development and continuous improvement

- You will need to have basic English language skills

Stores Operative– Benefits:

- Free Transport to and from Lazonby from Penrith Locations

- Refer a Friend Scheme - 1st BONUS = £100, 2nd BONUS = £300

- 29 days' annual leave including Bank Holidays

- Company Sick Pay

- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme through Health Assured (inc. employer discounts at other top brands

- Cycle to Work Scheme

- Free Fruit/ Tea/Coffee

- Free onsite parking

- Discounted cakes

- Discounted Gym memberships (Penrith/ Appleby/ Carlisle)

- Working Monday to Friday on a variable rota of 6am-2:15pm, 7am - 3:15pm or 9am-17:15pm

Shifts will be confirmed a week in advance on a rolling basis and where possible we will be flexible on dates/start times to meet personal requirements.

If you are successful, we will undertake the relevant pre-employment checks after you have been offered a job, this includes verifying your right to work in the UK.

Bells of Lazonby is committed to equal opportunities for all, we are an accredited Disability Confident Committed employer. We provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process; we accept all job applications in a variety of formats.

As a family business we value our people and have a range of shifts available as we know that what works for someone might not work for someone else, if you believe you have the skills and passion to work for us then please get in touch.

To submit your application for this exciting Stores Operativeopportunity, please click ‘Apply’ now!