Despatch Operative; Intake

About The Role

Joining our Logistics team as an Operative in Dispatch you will play a vital role in ensuring our customers get the correct orders on time and at the same high quality they have come to expect. You will be given the opportunity to train and develop throughout our clear progression pathways. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with warehouse experience who wants to develop it further, or someone who just wants a change in direction.

For this role, it is essential that a candidate has a Counterbalance Forklift Licence. This is a FTC opportunity for 6 months.

• Loading and unloading products using a counterbalance forklift
• Scanning, wrapping and palletising products
• Performing final quality checks on products
• Using electric pallet trucks, counterbalance and reach vehicles
• Recording and rotating chilled food products
• Ensuring paperwork and delivery orders are completed and recorded

• £13.75 per hour (paid weekly) + £2.00 UNS for hours worked between 18:00 and 06:00
• Earn £250 for every friend or family member you refer for a job with us*
• Training and development from day one, secure contract, guaranteed hours and opportunities for overtime
• Subsidised staff canteen
• Free on-site parking
• T's & C's apply

Sunday-Thursday 21:30-06:30

• Counterbalance Forklift Licence (essential)
• Ability to work well within a team and communicate effectively
• Good attention to detail and a flexible attitude to tasks
• Experience with in a production/manufacturing environment desirable but not essential as full training will be provided

Avara Foods is one of the UK’s leading food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the country’s major supermarkets and well‑known restaurants. We own and manage our entire supply chain, from farms to factory to the customer door, with major processing sites across England and Wales and an agricultural network of over 350 farms. Our Telford site is an advanced manufacturing facility processing up to 1.5 million birds per week.

We have recently invested £2.3 million in technology and equipment, making it one of the most advanced food manufacturing facilities in the UK.