Despatch Operative

at Stephens Bakery
Location Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Date Posted 8 May 2025
Category Bakery Production Jobs
Job Type Full-time

Description

As a Despatch Operative, you will assist in the fulfilment of orders of our award-winning products, ensuring the highest standards of food safety, output, quality, hygiene and health & safety.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Packing and picking savoury products and bread rolls.
  • Inspecting products to ensure high quality and legal compliance.
  • Reading order lists and counting products.
  • Carrying out cleaning duties in the Bakery and packaging area ensuring a high standard of hygiene/sanitation.
  • Lifting and bending, placing and stacking completed products in the correct area for delivery drivers.

Requirements:
Previous experience within a Bakery environment would be advantageous but is not essential as full training will be provided.

The successful candidate will have good basic numeracy skills, good attention to detail, will be good at following instructions and be good at working under pressure to tight deadlines.

This position will be required to work overtime on a rotational basis.

Hours: 39 Hours, 5 Days over 7

Shift Times: 20:00pm - 04:30am (Depending on Rota)

Rate of pay per hour: £14.08- £14.80

Overtime: Hours worked above contacted 39 hours within a consecutive 7 day period (Monday to Sunday) are payable at time and a half.

What You’ll Receive

We love our people as much as we love our bridies (which is a lot!). So, to thank them for all of their hard work, we offer an attractive benefits package:

  • Competitive Salary: £14.08 - £14.80 per hour
  • Lunch is on us! We offer free products to our teams on shift
  • Presents for our team at special moments (Christmas, Length of Service & Weddings)
  • Know someone great? Our staff referral scheme offers the potential to earn £150 each!
  • Popping in for a bite on your day off? You’ll get 20% off our products across all of our shops
  • Free Counselling for mental health, money, legal or work matters
  • Discounts at over 1,000 high street and online retailers such as Asda, Aldi, cinemas, holidays, etc.
  • Career development your sort of thing? We love to develop our teams to be the best versions of themselves which is why we like to offer job opportunities to our existing team.
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