Overview
Address: Wadsley Bridge, England, GB, S6 1LY
Location: Fletcher’s Bakery, Sheffield
Shift: Night Shift 18:00PM – 06:00AM following a 4 on 4 off rotation
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
We have an exciting opportunity for a Despatch Operative to join our team at Fletcher’s Bakery, working a four on, four off rolling shift pattern.
Our Fletchers bakery has over 125 years of baking tradition, with our Kara bakery supplying delicious wholesale bakery products for over 35 years starting with the first floured bap. Both have been part of the Finsbury Food Group since 2014. Fletchers Bakery can trace its roots back to 1895 and both bakeries portfolio of products have risen (get it?) to include gourmet brioche, traditional sliced bread, bloomer breads and vegan and gluten free options, to name a but a few.
This is a hands-on role within a fast-paced manufacturing environment, where you’ll play a key part in ensuring finished products are received, stored, and despatched accurately and efficiently. Working as part of a close-knit team, you’ll help maintain high standards of safety, quality, and hygiene while supporting the smooth running of the despatch operation.
This is what you’ll actually do!
As a Despatch Operative, you’ll support the day-to-day movement of finished goods through the warehouse, helping the team manage high volumes of stock and ensure customer orders are assembled and dispatched correctly.
You’ll receive and handle stock, assemble orders, and load vehicles following the correct loading procedures. You’ll help maintain accurate stock levels through regular stock checks and rotation, ensuring products are stored correctly and traceability is maintained.
Working as part of the despatch team, you’ll follow standard operating procedures and ensure all tasks are completed safely and efficiently. You’ll maintain strict adherence to Health & Safety, food safety, and GMP standards while supporting departmental safety and quality compliance.
You’ll also play an important role in maintaining high standards across the warehouse, working collaboratively with colleagues to meet daily operational targets and maximise outputs.
To be successful in this role, you’ll be a reliable and hardworking team player who takes pride in doing the job properly. You’ll be comfortable working in a busy environment, able to follow processes carefully, and committed to maintaining high standards of safety and quality.
Ideally this is you!
• Experience working in a warehouse, despatch, or manufacturing environment (desirable)
• Good communication skills and the ability to work well as part of a team
• Strong work ethic with reliability and commitment
• Numerate with good attention to detail
• Food hygiene awareness (desirable)
• Manual handling experience (desirable)
• FLT or PPT licences (desirable but not essential)
• Pride in completing tasks to a high standard from start to finish
If you’re looking for a practical role in a supportive team where you can develop your skills within a busy manufacturing operation, we’d love to hear from you.
What’s in it for you?
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Death in Service Benefit
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products!)
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – t&cs dependent)
• Employee Recognition Awards· Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!
Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!
