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Key Tasks / Responsibilities:
Principle Accountabilities & Objectives- Allocation and distribution of pick tasks to ensure an efficient pick and load sequence.
- Recording of final pallet figures to ensure accurate loading.
- Problem solving and assist management/supervisor in providing resolutions.
- Order picking using the correct procedures.
- Ensure correct dress code (PPE) is worn at all times.
- Ability to work overtime / be flexible
- To deliver a service level in excess of 99.5%
- MHE signed out daily and checked along with supervisors
- RF Guns signed in and out Daily
- Handover Sent Daily to Managers and GM
Resource Management
- Along with manager/supervisor monitor and control the use of resource in a cost-effective manner.
- Actively seek training in the respective areas to enhance the flexibility of the company
- To be involved as part of the Management team responsible for the efficient and accurate pick Operation
People/Personal Management
- Build working relationships with peers and work colleagues both within the department and throughout the company.
- Operate to high moral, personal and appearance standards.
- Maintain excellent attendance and timekeeping standards
- Ensure information is recorded correctly on daily sheets and highlight any issues to supervisor/manager paying particular attention to daily stock check sheets.
- Communicate with your supervisor/manager daily to ensure you understand targets and schedules.
- Liaise with stock controllers and booking in staff with regards to stock movements
Skills/Knowledge and Qualifications
- Trained on all relevant equipment within chilled warehouse.
- The ability to communicate with people within your area and other areas of the business.
- Computer literate, competent on Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook.
Generic Responsibilities:
- To participate fully in the Company’s Personal Performance and Development process and to undertake training and development relevant to your job.
- To contribute to the development of a respectful and mutually supportive working environment in accordance with our values.
- Support the team to monitor and control the use of resource in a cost-effective manner.
- Encourage team members to develop and learn, ensuring the team are trained in respective areas to enhance the flexibility of the company.
- Build working relationships with colleagues both within the department and throughout the company.
- Comply with all Oakland policies and procedures, especially your own duty of take care towards your own personal health and safety and that of others who may be affected by your actions at work.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £12.50 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
Schedule:
- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
Job Features
Job Category | Warehouse |
Weekly working hours: | 44 |
Salary | £12.50 |
Responsible to: | Shift Manager |
Responsible for: | Warehouse Operatives |
Authorised by | KY |
Shift Pattern: 4 Days on 4 Days off Rotation – 0700 to 19:00 (2 Available) Location: Oakland International, Bardon Hill, Coalville We are recruiting for two Warehouse Team leaders to support our...
Mechanical Technician
Responsibilities
- Perform routine maintenance and repairs on mechanical systems and equipment.
- Diagnose mechanical issues and implement effective solutions.
- Collaborate with team members to optimize equipment performance.
- Maintain accurate records of maintenance activities and repairs.
- Ensure compliance with safety regulations and company policies.
- Assist in the installation of new machinery and equipment as needed.
- Proven experience as a Mechanical Technician or similar role.
- Strong understanding of mechanical systems and troubleshooting techniques.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Good communication skills for effective collaboration with colleagues.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent Pay: From £45,000.00 per year Benefits:
- Canteen
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- Life insurance
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Monday to Friday
Job Features
Job Category | Warehouse |
Department: | Green Clover Developments |
Weekly working hours: | 40 |
Salary | £45,000 |
Responsible for: | n/a |
Authorised by | KH |
Mechanical Technician Location: Seafield Lane, Redditch B98 9DB From £45,000 a year – Permanent, Full-time Company Overview Green Clover Developments is a growing open food business. Having s...
Hygiene Operative - Part Time
Location: Oakland International, Seafield Lane, Beoley, Redditch. We are recruiting for 4 Part time hygiene operatives to to work within the hygiene team maintaining hygiene standards throughout the site, in accordance with company hygiene procedures. Shifts Available: 1 Vacancy - Monday to Friday. 5pm to 9pm - 20 hours per week. 1 Vacancy - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Sunday. 5pm to 9pm - 20 hours per week. 2 Vacancy - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Sunday. 5pm to 9pm - 20 hours per weekKey Tasks / Responsibilities:
- Routine cleaning of all areas within the warehouse and surrounding yard area.
- Emptying of all bins and waste matter into appropriate waste disposal units.
- Segregation and handling of waste paper and cardboard for the purpose of recycling.
- Ensure cleaning equipment is maintained to a high standard and located in the designated storage area.
- Undertake additional cleaning tasks as requested by the Warehouse Management team.
- Promote a “clean as you go” policy throughout the company.
- Use of MHE (Mechanical Handling Equipment) as and when required.
- Recording of all cleaning tasks by completing of warehouse hygiene records
Generic Responsibilities
- Support the Warehouse team to monitor and control the use of resource in a cost effective manner.
- Build working relationships with colleagues both within the department and throughout the company.
- Awareness and promotion of Health and Safety regulations within your department.
- To support the company in helping to maintain the product, safety, quality, legality and integrity of our food safety culture.
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Pay: £12.21 per hour
Benefits:
- Canteen
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
Job Features
Job Category | Warehouse |
Department: | Open Food |
Weekly working hours: | 20 |
Salary | £12.21 |
Responsible for: | n/a |
Authorised by | KH |
Hygiene Operative – Part Time Location: Oakland International, Seafield Lane, Beoley, Redditch. We are recruiting for 4 Part time hygiene operatives to to work within the hygiene team maintainin...
Site Facilities Engineer
- To Support Operational teams with mechanical equipment via training to ensure the proper and most efficient methods/techniques/tools are being utilised.
- · Responsible for understanding, communicating and driving the department key performance indicators.
- · To identify and implement process improvements to drive efficiency and service. Including a commitment to planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and troubleshooting.
- · To work with internal and external stakeholders to prioritise according to business requirements.
- Developing relevant systems for routine maintenance of equipment.
- To maintain, improve and manage a safe working environment including the timely completion of accident investigations and any actions required. Ensuring that team members are fully aware and comply with all Health and Safety standards, company and legal requirements. E.g. COSHH, HACCP, MHE compliance.
- Responsible for monitoring and reporting of non-compliance instances with third parties.
- ·Lead and contribute to discussions within department, company, customers and suppliers to solve problems and make decisions.
- Obtain, evaluate and where applicable develop methods of producing information to aid decision making.
- Inventory management of all spare parts and user manual guides for all equipment on site.
- To participate fully in the Company’s Personal Performance and Development process and to undertake training and development relevant to your job.
Experience Required
- Understanding of all processing equipment as well as inspection and reporting of maintenance and repair needs as they arise.
- Previous Experience with maintenance management of industrial equipment
- ·Experience in a multi-skilled engineering role
- Sound knowledge of Health and Safety requirements.
- Clear understanding of systems to ensure food safety and environmental compliance
- Excellent problem-solving and diagnostic skills, with an initiative-taking approach to identifying and addressing issues.
- A practical understanding of Open Food Production
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills (both written and verbal).
- Can identify and reduce process steps to improve productivity and/or accuracy.
- Keen and motivated to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent Pay: £38,000.00 per year Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
Job Features
Job Category | Facilities |
Department: | Facilities |
Weekly working hours: | 40 |
Salary | £38,000 |
Responsible for: | n/a |
Authorised by | KH |
Site Facilities Engineer Location: Seafield Lane, Redditch B98 9DB £38,000 a year – Permanent, Full-time We are recruiting for a Site Facilities Engineer within our Food distribution business...
Sustainability Officer
Location: Oakland International, Seafield Lane, Beoley, Redditch (With some travel to other Oakland Locations) Working Hours: Monday to Friday, With some flexibility as requiredRole Purpose
We are pleased to be recruiting for a Sustainability officer to support the development of a recognised group-wide engagement programme promoting the environmental values of Oakland International. The role we will be to actively research, design and implement strategies to support and develop the sustainability agendas of specified Oakland business units.Key Tasks / Responsibilities
- Net Zero Science Based Targets – support with identifying the journey plan to meeting these targets.
- Supporting B-Corp re-accreditation – helping to ensure that the re-accreditation is achieved for Oakland International.
- Work with internal stakeholders to create and deliver a plan to embed appropriate values and practices from the B-Corp standard across the Oakland group.
- Contribute to the creation of a compelling wider environmental strategy for the Oakland group.
- Support tactical projects which ensure the delivery of the overall environmental strategy.
- Produce basic tactical reports showing achievement against agreed targets for environmental behaviours, e.g. energy saving, recycling, for use by team management at site level.
- Develop and implement a clear and consistent strategy promoting environmental values and behaviours within the various workplaces within the Oakland group.
- Research environmentally beneficial technologies and solutions.
- Produce simple payback/benefit assessments showing the impact of implementing environmental measures.
- Engage and build partnerships with those stakeholders who can support Oakland International’s environmental goals.
Education / Qualifications / Licences Required Essential:
- 5 x GSCE A – C (inc. English & Maths)
- 3 x A Levels A – E, or equivalent
- Full UK Driving Licence
- First degree or similar qualification
- Professional experience in environmental role
- Strong organisational, administration and planning skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Numeracy skills
- Experience in using Microsoft packages (e.g. Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint).
- Genuine interest in the environment and energy management issues.
- Experience in working to timelines.
- Ability to demonstrate delivery against targets or goals.
- Experience of working with an environment, energy management or business ethics focus.
- Prior work experience in a team or people-facing environment.
Job Features
Job Category | Office, Warehouse |
Department: | Sustainability |
Weekly working hours: | 40 |
Salary | £27,500 |
Responsible to: | Oakland International Ltd |
Responsible for: | Sustainability Initiatives |
Authorised by | KY |
Sustainability Officer Location: Oakland International, Seafield Lane, Beoley, Redditch (With some travel to other Oakland Locations) Working Hours: Monday to Friday, With some flexibility as required...
Customer Service Administrator
Location: Oakland International, Coalville, LE67 1TB Working hours – 4 Days on / 4 Days Off Rotation - 0700 to 19:00 (44 hours per week) Our Vision:* A Responsible Family Enterprise That Shares Focus on Delivering Sustainable Growth Through Partnerships, Collaboration & Innovation with an Environmental & Social Conscience.* Our Mission:* Working Together to Deliver Solutions That Make A Difference*Key Tasks / Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain excellent customer relationships
- Liaise with clients to inform them of any non-compliance to Oakland’s procedures and end destinations.
- Review system adjustments and ensure that investigations take place as required
- Pass customer claims to Claims Department to be logged
- To provide help and advice to clients, using our services, over the telephone, by email or face-to-face.
- To investigate and solve clients’ problems and queries.
- To create, maintain and enhance effective working relationship with peers and work colleagues, both within the department and throughout the company
- To control and manage the E-docs software for your allocated zone of customers.
- Actively seek training in the respective areas to enhance the flexibility of the company
- Build working relationships with peers and work colleagues both within the department and throughout the company.
- Operate to high moral, personal and appearance standards.
- Maintain personal discipline, time keeping and morale.
Skills/Knowledge and Qualifications
- Analytical skills with strong attention to detail
- Confident telephone manner
- Confident use of MS Office packages including Excel and Word
- Strong organisational skills
- Exceptional communication skills (both verbal and written)
- Numeracy skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Previous experience of working in a customer service and operational role
- GCSE level or equivalent in a relevant subject (i.e. Business Administration / IT)
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent Pay: £12.21 per hour Expected hours: No more than 44 per week Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
Job Features
Job Category | Office |
Department: | Customer Services |
Weekly working hours: | 44 |
Salary | £12.21 PH |
Responsible to: | Customer Service Manager |
Responsible for: | n/a |
Authorised by | KY |
Customer Service Administrator Location: Oakland International, Coalville, LE67 1TB Working hours – 4 Days on / 4 Days Off Rotation – 0700 to 19:00 (44 hours per week) Our Vision:* A Responsi...
Job Description
Contractual Arrangements:
Job Title: Yards ManLast revision date: NewDepartment: Operations Location: Redditch Weekly working hours: 40 Contract type: FullResponsible to: Site GMResponsible for: Site |
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Our Vision: A Responsible Family Enterprise That Shares Focus on Delivering Sustainable Growth Through Partnerships, Collaboration & Innovation with an Environmental & Social Conscience. | Our Mission: Working Together to Deliver Solutions That Make A Difference |
To ensure the site is up to BRCGS standards at all times and tour ready. To ensure all health and safety aspects around the site are adhered to, ensuring all legal compliances on health and safety of the site are being met aswell as the employees and contractors/visitors on site.
Key Tasks / Responsibilities:- To enable safe site operations.
- Ensure site compliance is always adhered too, regarding Health and Safety and Food safety!
- Willing to undertake further training to enhance the role.
- Completing all daily and weekly conformance checks on time.
- Signing out of MHE being used on a daily basis.
- Ensuring all yard equipment is topped up and not running low on gas.
- Ensuring materials around yard are always recorded to keep track on numbers and to report any materials running low to the manager to be topped up.
- Completing Daily pallet counts.
- Sweeping around bay areas and clearing away any debris.
- Loading pallets out to collecting customers.
- Completing any ADHOC work set by management.
- Be an active collaborator across all site teams.
- Good listening and understanding skills.
- Ability to work on their own or as a project team.
- Ability to juggle multiple contractors and tasks at once.
- Excellent time management
- Ability to achieve deadlines and produce detailed reports.
- Be the point of reference for anything site specific relating to facilities.
- Always promote site safety and food culture.
- To participate fully in the Company’s Personal Performance and Development process and to undertake training and development relevant to your job.
- To contribute to the development of a respectful and mutually supportive working environment in accordance with our values.
- Supporting departments by offloading or loading vehicles which are to be completed off bay.
- Build working relationships with colleagues both within the department and throughout the company.
- To comply with all Oakland policies and procedures, especially your own duty of take care towards your own personal health and safety and that of others who may be affected by your actions at work.
- To support the company in helping to maintain the product, safety, quality, legality and integrity of our food safety culture.
- Ensuring the MHE around the yard is running and checked daily to ensure it is working to the best conditions and any repairs or damages are reported to management when they come up.
- Completion of daily pallet counts to ensure the business does not run out and broken pallets are collected in a timely fashion.

Person Specification
Job Title Last Revision Date: Education / Qualifications / Licences: Skills / Abilities / Knowledge / Experience: Behaviour / Attitude: Core Competency Framework: Other:Job Features
Job Category | Warehouse |
Weekly working hours: | 40 |
Salary | £12.21ph |
Responsible for: | n/a |
Authorised by | KH |
To ensure the site is up to BRCGS standards at all times and tour ready. To ensure all health and safety aspects around the site are adhered to, ensuring all legal compliances on health and safety of ...
Would You Like To Work For A Company That Values Its Customers, People And The Local Community?
If the answer is yes, then Oakland International is the company for you.
Our employees are key to the success of our business. Every person plays an important part in ensuring that the customer’s needs are met at every opportunity.
We actively encourage and support creativity and personal development. We seek to find better ways of doing things and continue to do what we are doing well. We are extremely keen for our people to fulfil their potential and progress with their careers. We strongly promote a policy of equal employment opportunity.
To apply for a full time job please download and fill in our Application Form.
Please send all completed application forms for the attention of Human Resources, Oakland International, Seafield Lane, Redditch, B98 9DB. Alternatively you can email the application form and your cv to careers@oakland-international.com.
If you need any assistance filling in the application form or if you have any questions please contact us directly.
To find out our current vacancies please telephone our HR team on +44 (0) 1527 596222 / +44 (0) 1530 432312 or email careers@oakland-international.com