The Bart Ingredients company has been sourcing and selling herbs & spices for over 60 years. In that time the business has grown from being a husband-and-wife team selling spice racks locally, to an organisation with over 200 employees with products distributed across the UK. Today the business remains privately owned and is in its sixth year of being part of the Fuchs Gruppe family - the world’s largest privately owned herbs & spices business.
Our purpose is simple - ‘To bring the joy of food to life’ and to do it in the most sustainable way. The success of the business is routed in its people who make the business what it is with their shared passion for achieving the best and cultivating the family culture we are proud to retain.
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Warehouse Operator to work in our facility in Severn Beach. This role is responsible for ensuring the safe, accurate and efficient movement and storage of food products within the warehouse environment, adhering to strict quality, safety and compliance standards while supporting the needs of the department and wider organisation.
Key responsibilities:
- Perform accurate picking of raw materials, packaging, and finished goods, and wrap, check, and despatch orders to meet deadlines.
- Load and unload vehicles to ensure the safe, efficient and timely movement of goods.
- Receive, check, and store deliveries via system-directed put-away to maintain stock integrity.
- Operate reach truck and counterbalance forklifts daily to move and locate pallets safely.
- Conduct cycle counts and stock accuracy checks to uphold precise records.
- Book stock movements on warehouse systems to keep data current and traceable.
- Maintain cleanliness and follow Health & Safety and food hygiene procedures to support compliant operations.
- Replenish locations, split stock, and complete warehouse moves to optimise availability and workflow.
- Investigate routine discrepancies, provide basic warehouse information, and escalate non-routine issues to protect inventory accuracy.
- Work day or night shifts as rostered, to meet operational requirements.
- Rotate across all warehouse related tasks to support efficient warehouse operations.
Person specification/qualifications/capabilities:
- Reach truck and counterbalance licenses are required
- Demonstrable experience of operating powered lift equipment and manual handling to move and secure palletised stock safely.
- Demonstrable experience of conducting cycle counts, investigating routine variances and maintaining accurate records in warehouse systems.
- Demonstrable experience of working rota-driven shifts in compliance with health, safety and food hygiene standards.
- Understanding of stock control, cycle counting and booking stock movements in warehouse systems.
- Awareness of safe operation and basic checks of powered lift equipment and manual handling for palletised stock.
- Awareness of food hygiene, health and safety procedures and site-specific compliance for warehouse operations.
What we offer:
Bart believe our people are our most important asset and offer the following benefits in addition to your salary:
· Pension scheme:
o Salary sacrifice scheme with company contribution of 4%
· Extra leave:
o Holiday purchase scheme – up to an additional 5 days each year
o Enhanced bereavement and pregnancy loss leave
· Life assurance:
o 2 x annual salary after 3 months service
· Wellbeing:
o Access to GP24 service which is a remote GP & second opinion medical service
o Access to onsite Mental Health First Aiders
o Medicash - cash health plan
o Grocery Aid access - They offer emotional, financial, practical advice and support on a wide range of topics for all grocery colleagues and their immediate families
· Discounts:
o Money off in stores, holidays and days out discount platform
o Cycle to work scheme
· Others:
o Long Service Awards
o Social events
We would love you to join our team!
The hours for this role are 40 hours per week Monday – Friday on rotating shifts of 6am-2pm and 2pm-10pm with a paid 30 minute break.
Diversity & Inclusion
At Bart Ingredients we are committed to promoting equal opportunities and fostering a rich diversity within our workplace where all individuals are valued treated with fairness, dignity and respect.
As an equal opportunities employer, we recruit on a fair and equal basis, welcoming applications from candidates regardless of age, ethnicity, gender identity or reassignment, disability, pregnancy & maternity status, sexual orientation, religion or belief or marriage/civil partnership status.
In line with the Ban the Box initiative, we do not ask you about any unspent criminal convictions during the recruitment process.
Bart Ingredients are a proud Disability Confident Employer, and we guarantee an interview for candidates who declare a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the role.
We recognise that people are different and can work in different ways. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process or for applying in a different format, please contact our HR team and they will be happy to help. [email protected] - 0117 9773474
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £32,225.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Store discount
Licence/Certification:
Work Location: In person
