Shift - 4on/ 4off

Pay Rate - £12.35 p/h 

Despatch  Operator

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, 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 Heathrow, we have a team of around 400 colleagues. We produce gluten free sandwiches and ready to eat or reheat sandwiches, wraps and other bread-based products, salads and ready meals for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Asda, Aldi, Co-op, Lidl, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose.

What you'll be doing

As a Despatch Operator:

• Completion of traceability paperwork (use by dates, amounts, prices, temperatures etc)
• 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
• Always keeping area clean - Identify and utilise down time 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

What we’re looking for

Full training will be provided if successful in this role but are looking for the following knowledge and experience:

• Ideally experience within a food manufacturing environment or similar environment
• Good Literacy and Numeracy skills
• Problem solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Right first-time approach
• Computer literat
• Good communicator and ability to work in a team
• Basic Awareness of Health and Safety and Food Hygiene

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make everyday taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

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
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

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

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