Flexible Site Operative
Bartholomews is a long-established, family-owned agricultural business with a heritage spanning 130 years. We support arable farmers across the southern counties of the UK to grow cereal crops and as one of the UK’s top ten suppliers of seed, fertilisers, crop protection products and agronomy services, incorporating Churchill Freight Services, the choice of career paths and opportunities within our business is as varied as the services we offer, our vision is for all our employees to have long-lasting, fulfilling, and meaningful careers with us.
We have a new full-time and permanent opening for a flexible and adaptable skilled worker who will be mainly based at our site in Shoreham Port and will provide relief cover at our Chichester site at busy periods and when extra support is needed.
The role will be varied and hands-on and provides an excellent opportunity to enter the business and learn about our different operational areas and to be able to:
At our major grain storage and export facility in Shoreham Port, support with all daily operations to oversee the intake and storage of finished cereal crops, learn how to quality test crop samples, load ships for export and help with maintaining the site.
Learn and be involved with all the processes to produce agricultural seeds, from intake to cleaning and bagging of finished seeds at our plant in Chichester.
There may be occassion to provide cover at our deep water-water terminal at Southampton Docks helping with all day-to-day duties to blend and bag mixtures, store raw materials, assist with ship unloading and the loading of finished product onto our own fleet of Churchill Freight lorries.
In our warehouses and stores help to pick, check-off, wrap and load pallet orders by hand and by fork-lift truck, learning about the products we stock and supply.
Deliver van orders direct to our customers farms located across the southern counties.
Relevant background experience in dock-working, logistics operations, forklift truck operations, warehousing, driving and storage would all be helpful but is not essential as full training will be provided including fork-lift truck refresher training.
You must have a valid UK Drivers license to apply.
We are looking for someone who is keen and enthusiastic and would like to know more about the agricultural industry and become an integral part of our team and likes to have variety in their work.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £11.00-£13.00 per hour plus overtime after 50 hours and travel costs
To apply, please send your covering letter and CV by email to sarahholt@bartholomews.co.uk or telephone us for more information and a confidential chat on Tel: 01243 755767