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Job Title: Production Operative – Day Shift
Location: Vitacress Salads, St Mary Bourne, Andover
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full-time, 48 hours, 4 Days On / 4 Days Off – 6am – 6pm
Salary Range: From £24,781.12 To £32,043.83

Are you an organised, flexible and a reliable individual looking for a new challenge? If you are keen to learn, have great attention to detail, have good physical stamina, and a passion for fresh produce, why not take your first steps in developing your career with us at Vitacress Salads.

You may already have factory, manufacturing, or warehouse experience, and this gives you the starting blocks to be an ideal candidate, but don’t worry no experience is needed and full training will be provided.

Our salad leaves are at their best when kept cool, so average temperatures of our factory are around 5°C. To help within this cooler environment, we supply company PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) to keep you warm, we supply free hot drinks, and we have a great canteen to fuel up on your breaks.

Don’t have personal transport? Don’t worry we’ve got that covered. Vitacress Salads offer a Vitabus Service for our employees. This is a great service which supports our employees across the Andover surrounding area with their transport needs.

We have a variety of processes within different areas of our factory, and we are actively recruiting for various positions on our day shift. If you are looking for stable employment and great benefits, then have a look at what positions we have available.

Factory Operative - £24,781.12 Annual Salary

Responsible for effectively feeding raw material, crates, pack lines, bowls, and finished goods, and support other production line personnel in achieving targeted output.

Service Operative - £26,434.59 Annual Salary

Responsible for managing stock, maintaining traceability, and controlling movement of raw materials.

Intake Operative - £29,029.91 Annual Salary

Responsible for the loading and unloading of vehicles, ensuring all health and Safety standards are being met and adhered do. Food safety-Accurately booking in raw material to maintain all traceability.

Despatch Operative - £29,029.91 Annual Salary

Responsible for picking and preparing customer orders. Scanning of products and configuration of customer orders onto internal software. Transporting orders from the factory to the vehicles using PPT (Pallet Powered Truck)

Machine Operative - £32,043.83 Annual Salary

Responsible for ensuring that machines run safely at the optimum efficiency, whilst ensuring the machine is kept clean and tidy and specifications are adhered to, minimising waste where possible and conduct basic mechanical duties.

All candidates will go through an assessment when applying for our factory roles. This will consist of a face-to-face interview, some team-based activities and an ESOL test (English Language Assessment). Finally, we will give you a factory tour, this will give you the opportunity to see first-hand what Vitacress has to offer. Based on your skills set and experience, we’ll be sure to place you in role we believe best fits your capabilities, and we always have options for development.

We also have a range of wonderful benefits which come with the package.

Life Assurance
Free Parking
Pension Scheme
20 Days Holiday
Employee Discount Scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Subsidised Transport from Andover
Training Courses
Career ProgressionAn ideal candidate will have, good speaking and written English skills, excellent communication skills, manages well under pressure, adaptable to changing working environments and is a strong team player. If this sounds like you, then we want to hear from you.

Vitacress Salads, based in leafy St Mary Bourne, Andover is one of the principal salad and watercress suppliers in the UK. With our own salad leaf farms, we take immense pride in delivering a field to fork operation. We grow, wash, pack and distribute salad and watercress for retailer own brands and our own brand Steve’s Leaves. We take pleasure in ensuring the best possible standard 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 salads 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.

If you have a strong desire to come join our friendly team, then this is the perfect opportunity for you. You can apply easily, either click the apply now button here or contact our recruitment team at (url removed). We will be happy to answer any questions, so get in touch. 

About Us 

We are one of Europe's leading suppliers of fresh produce, specialising in watercress, salads and fresh herbs. 

Established in Hampshire 1951, we became part of the RAR Group in 2008. We have a proud heritage of market-leading innovation including the introduction of living herbs, and baby leaf salads, and market-defining salad leaves including bagged watercress, rocket and baby spinach. We have a wide range of customers in the UK, both under supermarket own brands and Steve's Leaves, we are branded market-leaders in Portugal and also operate in Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. We employ 1500 people across Europe. We're passionate about promoting the use of fresh produce, which is why we have introduced the Herbilicious and Wild for Watercress campaigns, as well as participating in the Make More of Salad campaign run by the British Leafy Salad Association.   

We have farms in the UK, Portugal, Germany and Spain, and a global sourcing network to ensure that, no matter what the season, we supply the freshest, tastiest, healthiest, most exciting products on the market.   We are determined to leave things better than we found them, and as such we have set up the Vitacress Conservation Trust to promote the well being of the unique chalk stream habitats where many of our watercress sites are based.

Please visit our sustainability section to learn more about our work and our partners. 

Culture Close to the Soil 

The Vitacress team has one goal; to provide the freshest, tastiest, healthiest and most exciting produce throughout the year. Inspired by our heritage and pioneering spirit, we constantly strive to bring new ideas to the market.

We win customers’ trust by delivering the best in quality, service and ethical standards.  Our people care for and endeavour to protect and enhance nature, our growing business and the communities in which we work.

This translates into the company values:
   
Always deliver quality - We take pride in ensuring our product is of the best possible standard.

Do the right thing - From the way we grow our products, to the relationships we sustain with client, everyone knows exactly what is going on. At the centre of everything is a trust that has been built over years of excellent service.

Nurture the future -  From the herbs and salads that are grown on site. To the investment in facilities and the growth of the business. We're focussed on always improving our offer and ourselves, leading the way forward