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Despatch Team Leader

Posted 16 May 2025
Salary £14.30
LocationExeter
Job type Permanent - Full Time
Discipline Logistics & Distribution
Reference033844
Job FunctionOperations
Expiry date 08 June 2025

Job description

  • Shift Time: 9pm to 5:30am (Shift times may vary)
  • Pay Rate: £14.30

Why Greencore? 

We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.  We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.  Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

 

Exeter:

A distribution depot serving convenience retailers and forecourts in the region.

 

What you'll be doing: 

Lead the team to ensure that they pick and despatch the required products that can be delivered to our customers and distribution centres in a timely manner, consistently operating efficiently thus ensuring the quality and safety of food goods and compliance with legislative and group standards.

 

Role Details:

  • Shift Time: 9pm to 5:30am (Shift times may vary)
  • Pay Rate: £14.30
  • Overtime: Premiums are payable after 42 hours at time and a quarter**.**
  • Shift Pattern: Full time, Permanent, 5 out of 7 days

What we’re looking for:

Being great with people is essential. In fact, this is the first thing we look for when we recruit a Greencore Team Leader. You will need to be able to be self-motivated and flexible, be able to use your own initiative and a good communicator at all levels.  Experience of leading a team, and of working within or managing a picking operation would be an advantage.

  • Sunday Night availability is crucial
  • FLT License preferred
  • Full UK driving license is essential
  • Own transport is a must due to location of the site

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:

  • Weekly Pay
  • Pension up to 8% matched
  • Company share save scheme
  • Greencore Qualifications
  • Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
  • Free On-site car park
  • On-site subsidised food area
  • Promotion and progression opportunities

 

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