Despatch Operative
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A Despatch Operative at a food processing company manually lifts, picks, scans and loads lamb products onto trailers, ensuring on-time, customer-specification delivery while coordinating with logistics, planning, sales and transport teams.
About this role
Overview
Working with local farmers to produce consistent quality lamb from naturally sustainable sources, we are actively seeking applications from individuals keen to take up a career within one of Europe’s leading food processing companies. This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established team, who have a desire to produce better food naturally.
A vacancy has arisen for a Despatch Operative working in the fast-paced Despatch department. The main function of the role is to ensure that products are despatched on time and to customer specifications.
Responsibilities
- Manual lifting, picking, scanning and loading trailers of daily orders for customer.
- Loading and unloading in bound and out bound trailers
- Moving pallets and product and scanning to the correct locations
- Wrapping, labelling and securing pallets to ensure stability and safety during transport.
- Communicating with other departments (Logistics, Planning, Sales and Transport)
- Process Customers paperwork and sealing trailers.
- Carry out all requests and tasks in a helpful and professional manner.
- To undertake any reasonable additional requests made by Supervisors or Managers to ensure that the overall contract service standard is maintained.
- Ensuring Good Housekeeping in the Despatch department.
Qualifications
- Relevant experience in a similar role would be beneficial but not essential
- A good standard of literacy and numeracy skills
- A positive thinking and self-motivated individual
- Excellent verbal, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent organisational, time management and attention to detail skills.
- Reliable and possessing your own transport.
- The ability to work within a team as well as independently and who works on their own initiative.
- Committed to working within the Company Mission, Vision & Values.
No company sponsorship is available to overseas applicants for this position.
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