Despatch Operative • Location: Runcton • Salary: £29,047.00 per year • Shift Pattern: 4 on / 4 off, 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM • Department: Despatch
About the Role Join our Despatch team as a Picker/Loader and play a vital role in ensuring customer orders are picked and loaded accurately, safely, and on time. You’ll help maintain high standards of quality and efficiency while supporting the smooth operation of our logistics department.
What You’ll Do • Pick and load customer orders correctly, following Health & Safety guidelines. • Complete all relevant paperwork accurately. • Communicate effectively with the Despatch Team Leader and Logistics Administrator. • Organise pallets, crates, and products for safe space management. • Carry out daily equipment checks (pump trucks, forklifts, vehicles). • Remove waste from factory areas and dispose of it according to company policy. • Maintain high standards of housekeeping and hygiene.
What We’re Looking For • Experience: Previous warehouse or logistics experience (essential). • Skills: Good communication, attention to detail, organisational skills. • Attributes: Positive “can-do” attitude, physically fit, dependable, flexible, and calm under pressure. • Qualifications: ◦ Food Hygiene (desirable) ◦ Forklift Truck licence (desirable) ◦ Powered Pump Truck licence (desirable) ◦ Driving licence (desirable)
Working Conditions • Some refrigerated areas, noisy at times (PPE provided).
✅ Ready to join a trusted team and make an impact? Apply today!
Vitacress Herbs, based just outside historic Chichester, West Sussex, is a primary supplier of Herb and horticulture products in the UK. With our 23-acre site covered in specialist glass houses, we take immense pride in our work ensuring our consumers have a fresh, quality product to enhance their home cooking or enhance their garden environment. We take pleasure in ensuring the best possible standards and we will empower you to do the same. From the way we grow our products, to the relationships we maintain with customers, everyone knows exactly what is going on. We are authentic and grounded. At the centre of everything is a trust that you can feel every day at work. From the herbs that are grown on site; to the investment in facilities and the growth of the business; to growing and nurturing out talented employees, growing is truly at the heart of what we do. Join us and become a trusted partner in our business.
