Despatch Service Operative - Nights

Greencore; Worksop; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Job summary

Greencore Worksop is seeking a Despatch Materials Handler to join our fast-moving production environment. You will support production windows, prep lines with packaging, labels, and trays, and ensure timely despatch of finished goods.

The role involves palletising, moving stock with hand pallet trucks, completing traceability paperwork, and maintaining daily records. A physically demanding role with potential for overtime; English literacy and basic maths are required, with a focus on accuracy

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar role/food environment (Desirable, not necessary).
• Able to read and write in English.
• Basic level of maths required.
• Ability to work under some pressure to ensure lines are serviced and able to run continuously.
• Great attention to detail (completing traceability paperwork, important to be accurate).
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
• Strong communication skills and desire to work with other team members.

Responsibilities

• Setting up lines ready for production: ensuring correct packaging/trays/cages and labels.
• Ensuring tape machines are set up correctly and supplied with tape.
• Using hand pallet trucks to move packaging/materials.
• Moving finished products from production lines to blast chills.
• Booking stock into the chills ready to be picked (using JBA guns).
• Completing traceability paperwork for blast chilling (use by dates, temperatures, times).
• Counting stock to ensure adequate packaging and finished stock levels.
• Moving finished products to pick areas once chilled for palletising and despatch.

Job description

Shift Pattern - Alternating Wednesday to Saturday 17:30 - 05:30

Rate of Pay - £15.50 Per Hour

Overtime - Paid at x 1.25 after 48 hours

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn. Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

What you'll be doing

As a Despatch Materials Handler, you will be working between the Production windows and picking/stores area. As an essential part of the Low-Risk team, you will be assisting in ensuring our products our produced to the highest quality and standards. You will be ensuring each window has the correct packaging and trays as well as enough to keeps the lines moving. You will also be responsible for ensuring product received from the production area is chilled to the correct temperature before being picked and despatched. This a physical role which requires some heavy lifting.

Responsibilities

• Setting up of lines ready for production to start - making sure correct packaging/trays/cages are available, correct labels are set up for printing
• Ensuring tape machines are set up correctly and supplied with tape to keep lines running.
• Using hand pallet trucks to move packaging/materials throughout the area
• Moving finished products from the production lines to the blast chills
• Booking stock into the chills ready to be picked (using JBA guns)
• Completion of traceability paperwork for blast chilling (use by dates, temperatures, times)
• Counting of stock (both packaging and finished products) to ensure we always have adequate supply of packaging and to ensure correct amounts of finished stock are produced
• Moving of finished products (cages, trays on wheels) to pick areas once chilled to be palletised and despatched

What we're looking for

• Previous experience in a similar role/food environment (Desirable, not necessary)
• Able to read and write in English
• Basic level of Maths required (counting stock, using calculators, JBA guns)
• Ability to work under some pressure to ensure lines are serviced and able to run continuously
• Great attention to detail (completing traceability paperwork, important to be accurate)
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
• Strong communication skills and desire to work with other team members.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform

Please note due to high numbers of applications this role maybe closed before the posted closing date.