Warehouse Operative - Days

Our Vacancies; Selby; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturing company in Selby seeks warehouse staff who can effectively manage stock and work in a fast-paced environment. Key responsibilities include booking stock, ensuring stock rotation, and packing products after delivery. Candidates should possess strong communication skills, basic math ability, and a teamwork mindset to fulfill orders. This role provides competitive pay at £14.94 per hour, plus benefits such as pension matching and employee discounts.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to Wellbeing Centre platform

Qualifications

• Proven experience as order picker or in a warehouse position.
• Experience in voice picking systems or RF devices.
• Diligent, punctual, with good physical strength.

Responsibilities

• Book stock using technology; ensure stock rotation.
• Receive and locate deliveries, maintaining FIFO.
• Pack products and set up production lines.

Skills

Able to read and write in English

Ability to work as part of a team

Basic level of Maths

Great attention to detail

Strong communication skills

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Excellent organisational skills

Tools

Aurora system

Forklifts

Pallet jacks

Scanners

Job description

Days

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 6am-6pm (after 6 weeks rotates to Thursday, Friday, Saturday for a further 6 weeks)

Rate of pay

£14.94 per hour

Over time

After 36 hours a week x 1.25

Why Greencore?

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 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn. Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here at Selby we employ a team of over 750 colleagues. A site steeped in history, we are the UK’s number one manufacturer of customer private label cooking sauces and pickles. We have been serving our customers out of our Selby site since 1914.

What you'll be doing

• Booking of all stock using technology (JBA guns or computers)
• Rotation of stock to ensure correct stock is used at correct times (FIFO)
• Receiving and locating deliveries throughout the shift, ensuring stock is rotated so oldest stock used first
• Packing products into boxes/trays when received from high care production
• Use of ICE printers to select correct orders and print labels that are automatically applied to outer packaging
• Stacking of packaged/trayed orders onto wheels or pallets as they are received
• 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
• Following production plans to ensure correct packaging is issued to production for each order
• Booking packaging to production on the computer, using Aurora system. Also booking and tracking any extra packaging required
• Receiving and locating of packaging on deliveries, putting deliveries away into storage area
• Keeps area clean at all times – identifies and utilizes downtime to clean in, around and under all equipment
• All other duties as assigned
• Adhere to health & safety policies and quality standards
• Storage and locating of goods received into our warehouse areas
• Booking of stock to prep when transferring stock (using computers or JBA guns)
• Rotation of stock in areas, ensuring oldest stock is used first
• Use of trucks (counterbalance, PPT, reach) is essential

What we’re looking for

• Able to read and write in English
• Ability to work as part of a team to complete orders and store deliveries
• Basic level of Maths required (booking different amounts on computer, tracking extra bread issued etc)
• 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
• Ability to work under some pressure to ensure lines are serviced and able to run continuously
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Computer literacy, including knowing how to use scanners and relevant software programs, such as warehouse management systems (Aurora)
• Excellent organisational and record-keeping skills to coordinate large volumes of goods
• Honesty and trustworthiness
• The ability to work effectively under limited supervision
• Proven experience as order picker or other warehouse position
• Experience or licence in handling forklifts, pallets jacks and other warehouse equipment
• Experience in voice picking systems or RF devices
• Diligent and punctual
• Good physical strength and stamina

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
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

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