Coldstore Operative

24 hours per week, over 3 days.

Reporting to the Driver Supervisor and Senior Freezer Operative, Coldstore Operatives are responsible for picking and packing customers frozen orders ready for dispatch in a timely and accurate manner.

The cold store runs at a chilly -20 degrees centigrade but don’t worry, protective clothing designed to deal with this temperature will be provided along with breaks to warm up and have a hot drink as needed.

You'll need to be a hard worker with good attention to detail to ensure you pick accurately, to meet tight deadlines, and keep the coldstore clean and tidy for maximum efficiency. 

Wiltshire Farm Foods, part of the apetito group, is the UK’s largest ready-meal supplier, cooking and delivering over 330 different delicious frozen ready meals across the UK primarily to the elderly, their family members and healthcare professionals.

We're dedicated to making a real difference to our customers' lives, by bringing sunshine to their doors through our commitment to provide good old-fashioned service.

Our intense pride drives us to continuously innovate and improve, ensuring our products and service exceed our customers' needs.

This is all whilst being an ethical and sustainable organisation that believes in doing the right thing.

• Ensuring customers orders are accurately picked and placed of the corresponding cage ready for the next morning.
• Customer confidentiality
• Improve efficiencies and putting them into practice
• Helping the office team where appropriate
• Reporting health and safety, stock quality and mechanical issues
• The above is not an exhaustive list of the duties and responsibilities of this role but aims to give a general overview of the position.
• Staff are employed and trained to be multi-functional and to be capable of carrying out numerous functions should this be required when a fellow member of staff is away or absent.

Essential:

• Good attendance and timekeeping
• Attention to detail
• Numerate and literate
• Basic secondary education
• Open and honest team player
• Outgoing
• Flexible, highly motivated and committed
• Have a ‘can do’ attitude; will need to learn other tasks around the business if required
• Promote good team work – help others.
• Contribute to help the team meet the department targets

Desirable:

• Health & Safety training 
• Experience in a coldstore or chilled warehouse

• Competitive salary 
• Up to 4 weeks holiday per year + public holidays (pro rataed accordingly for part time workers)

As a family-owned business, we take great pride in being a company that makes a real difference and is dedicated to creating outstanding meals to be proud of.

We develop a range of products designed to enhance health and well-being for all our customers.

We are driven by a passion for service and dedicated to feeding some of the UK’s most vulnerable people.

We proudly support British food and farming, focusing on using the best ethical and sustainable produce in alignment with our goal to reach Net Zero by 2040.

Our ethical standards are recognised by the ETI and we are an accredited Living Wage employer.
Learn more about apetito’s commitment to a more sustainable future.

We embrace inclusion, empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds.

Our commitment to making a real difference extends to customers, communities, and staff and we're on a mission to build an inclusive workplace where everyone reaches their full potential.