Warehouse Operative (6am Shift)

Greencore; Tamworth; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre access

Parental leave policies

Free on site car park

On site shop discount

Job summary

Greencore Tamworth depot is seeking an experienced Warehouse Operative to join the cold store team. You will pick customer orders using voice picking technology, assemble orders for next-day delivery and work as part of a fast-paced team delivering excellent service.

Shift is 6.00 to 14:30, 5 from 7 pattern, with weekend work and a pay rate of £13.95 per hour plus £1.15 weekend uplift. The role requires flexibility to work five days out of seven and readiness to thrive in a busy,

Qualifications

• Experience as a warehouse operative.
• Fully flexible to work any 5 of 7 days including weekends.
• Comfortable working in a cold environment.

Responsibilities

• Picking customer orders in the warehouse.
• Using voice-pick technology to select items.
• Assembling orders for next-day delivery and placing them in delivery pallets.
• Reporting product shortages to management at end of shift.
• Maintaining tidy work areas and ensuring PPE is worn.

Job description

Shift Time: 6am to 2:30pm

Pay Rate: £13.95 per hour (+ £1.15 for weekend work)

Shift Pattern: 5 from 7

As a Greencore warehouse operative you must be fully flexible to work any 5 of 7 days, which includes weekends, and must be comfortable working in a cold environment.

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 every day 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.

Tamworth:

Tamworth is a large picking depot and one of the busiest and most complexed in the area. The depot serves the major convenience retailers in the region and makes over 2000 deliveries per day.

What you'll be doing:

We are looking for an experienced Warehouse Operative to join our team based at our Tamworth depot. Working within our cold store warehouse, your role will involve picking orders using voice picking technology. Putting orders together for next-day delivery to our customers, you will be part of a warehouse team driven to deliver excellent customer service.

• Picking customer orders in our Warehouse
• Ensuring all orders are being picked accurately using 'voice pick' technology, and deliveries are placed in the appropriate delivery pallets at all times, marking the order size on the delivery notes
• Working in a fast-paced environment and able to meet time-sensitive deadlines
• Logging product shortages and reporting them to the Management Team at the depot at the end of each shift
• Ensuring all trays are stacked and kept in the designated place before the shift ends
• Maintaining the depot's cleanliness and tidiness in work areas at all times
• Ensuring all PPE issued is worn at all times

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better. If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you'll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
• Free on site car park
• Discounted on site shop

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

We reserve the right to close this advertisement before the stated closing date.