Skilled Operative - Dispatch

Work with us at Riverford and join a thriving employee-owned business

• Be part of a friendly, inclusive production team
• Grow with us – we’re proud to offer a bucketload of training and development opportunities to support your chosen career path
• We’ll give you an abundance of free organic fruit an veg, an annual tax-free ‘co-owner’ bonus, and a bounty of benefits, including low-cost, home-cooked organic breakfasts and lunches!

More than just a veg box….

Riverford are mad about organic veg. It’s at the core of everything we do. We love to grow it, pack it into boxes, and deliver it to around 70,000 homes across the UK every week.

This takes loads of brilliant people – and working here makes you a ‘co-owner’, since Riverford is employee owned. Success means much more than just profits; we want this to be a place people enjoy coming to work, and a business our co-owners feel proud of!

In 2021, we were delighted to be awarded two-star Best Companies accreditation, recognising Riverford as an ‘outstanding’ place to work.   

What you’ll be doing… 

As our Skilled Operative, you will support the Team Manager in delivering the days requirement for your department. Working as part of the team you will help to ensure that we are producing a high quality, accurate and well-presented product whichever team you are working in.  You will be key in keeping the team motivated to achieve your targets for the day, communicating positively when you need them to pick up the pace and working with all the departments around production to solve problems or keep them up to date with any issues.

Skills required…

• Experience of working within a production or manufacturing environment
• Able to demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills
• Good time management and organisation skills

Hourly rate -  £11.27 per hour

Hours of work - Sunday Thursday 6:30am - 2:30pm

This is a permanent contract, 39 hours a week. Based out of Wash Barn, Buckfastleigh, Devon, TQ11 0JU  

Co-owner benefits

Riverford is a beautiful place to work, with lots of great people – and other perks too. Some of our benefits include: 33 days holiday pro rata (including bank holidays), generous company pension scheme, annual profit share (10% of all our profits are split equally between all co-owners), heavily discounted organic breakfasts and lunches, free organic fruit and veg, time and half on bank holidays, and free parking.