Warehouse Operative - FTC

Riverford Organic Farmers Ltd; Buckfastleigh; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Riverford Organic Farmers Ltd is hiring a Warehouse Operative on a 12-month fixed-term contract, 39 hours per week, Sunday to Thursday 6:00–14:30, including bank holidays. Pay is £13.90 per hour.

You will join a busy, employee-owned team delivering veg boxes across the UK. You’ll move stock, store produce in correct fridges, use electric pallet trucks, and keep accurate stock records on an electronic system.

Qualifications

• Experience in production or warehousing environments.
• Comfortable working in a cold environment.
• Able to lift and move crates of produce and veg boxes.
• Able to understand and follow instructions in English.

Responsibilities

• Move stock to the correct locations as required.
• Assist with receipt and storage of veg and other products.
• Maintain accurate stock records using the electronic system.
• Support other teams to ensure production runs smoothly.

Skills

Warehouse experience

Lifting & moving

English communication

Tools

Electric pallet trucks

Stock management system

Job description

Work with us at Riverford, and join a thriving employee-owned business as a Warehouse Operative…

Be part of a inclusive and friendly warehouse team

More than just a veg box….Riverford are mad about organic veg. It’s at the core of everything we do. We love to grow it, pack it into boxes, and deliver it to around 65,000 homes across the UK every week.

This takes loads of brilliant people – and working here makes you a ‘co-owner’, since Riverford is employee-owned. Success means much more than just profits; we want this to be a place people enjoy coming to work, and a business our co-owners feel proud of!

We offer a bucket load of benefits….33 days holiday pro rata (including bank holidays), 30% off veg boxes and our online shop, generous company pension scheme, annual profit share (at least 10% of all our profits are split equally between all co-owners)

Delivering even greener veg - We’re in the process of swapping diesel vans to electric, with the ambitious goal of being 100% electric vans for low-emission deliveries to our customers!

This role is a 12-month fixed term contract, 39 hours per week - Working Sunday-Thursday 6:00 - 14:30, which is inclusive of Bank Holidays.

Pay: £13.90 per hour.

What you’ll be doing…

Around 65,000 veg boxes leave our farm in Devon every week. As a member of our warehouse team you will work with a number of other departments to ensure that we create consistently great quality boxes for our customers.

This is a varied and very active role. Veg will arrive at goods in and once it has been booked in will get stored in the right fridge. We also receive a number of chilled products that need to be correctly stored. Your job is to move these products to wherever they are needed in the business. Whether its delivering carrots to go in a veg box or butter to go in a recipe box. You need to make sure that all our teams have what they need to keep production running smoothly.

We keep track of our stock with an electronic system so you will be responsible for making sure that we are always up to date with what has been moved where. You will get full training on this, as well as for the electric pallet trucks we use to move stock around.

You’ll need good communication skills to not only keep everyone in your team updated on any issues but also to build good relationships with the other teams around production.

What we’re looking for

Ideally you will have previous experience of working in a production or warehousing environment

Must be comfortable working in a cold environment

You must be able to lift and manoeuvre crates of produce and veg boxes

You should have good communication skills and be able to speak and understand English to a level that enables you to comprehend instructions and the daily requirements of the role

Accurate and efficient

At Riverford, we value quality service and our production team play a key role in our mission. If you’re looking for a job where you can make a difference and join a friendly, supportive team, we’d love to hear from you!