Production Operator - Dispensary (weekend days)

The Dispensary department at apetito are keen to promote excellent team work by employing people who have a positive (can do) attitude, who are prepared to learn a number of skills so that they are able to work in various positions within the department. By achieving this, the department is in the best position to produce quality products, in an efficient manner. We aim to not only achieve our targets but improve on them as well.

In this role, you will be required to work 3 in 7 days, over the weekend, with a shift pattern on 0600 - 1800.

£13.20 per hour + Bonus + Benefits + Shift Allowance

apetito is the UK’s leading food supplier to the health and social care sectors serving more than 1,300 care homes, health care and education settings.

Our meals are expertly crafted by our dieticians and chefs, and then frozen to lock in the goodness.

Wiltshire Farm Foods, our sister company, is the UK’s largest ready meal supplier cooking and delivering over 330 different delicious frozen ready meals across the UK.

• To be a key member of the production team producing bags of mixes for use in the factory and assisting in other areas.To be able to weigh mixes at the required speed
• Using Marco scales to weigh
• Filling bins up with product and attaching batch codes to bins
• Correct stock rotation
• Clean down between different products
• Open canned products
• Follow correct personal hygiene procedures (e.g. changing procedure, hand washing procedures)
• Operate to a clean (and tidy) as you go policy
• Carry out efficient and effective clean downs when changing over products
• Undertake ‘Basic Food Hygiene’ training a pass level must be obtained
• Observe the allergen procedures
• Help the business be environmentally friendly
  
  
  

Desirable

• Experience of food safety.
• Working in a production environment.
  
  
  

Personal qualities

• Have a can do attitude; will have try to learn other tasks in the department if required
• Promote good team work - help others.
• Have a desire to help the team meet the department targets
• Undertake any training made available/organised
• Competitive salary - accredited Living Wage employer
• 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Option to purchase up to 5 additional days holiday per year
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Pension scheme - employer matched contributions up to 4%
• Life assurance scheme worth at least 1x annual salary
• Subsidised canteen
• Free parking
• Free turkey or voucher at Christmas
• apetito perks scheme including salary sacrifice options and retail discounts
  
  
  

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.