Warehouse Operative - Double Days

Working as a Warehouse Operative, you will form part of a team that is responsible for ensuring the smooth flow of goods through the warehouse. This will involve varying activities such as using our inhouse computer systems to manage stock and create picking lists, operating a fork lift truck to unload and load pallets from vehicles and racking and being proactive to identify stock needs.

This will help you along your journey so that you can safely navigate through product changeovers and conversions to help keep our customers in stock of their favourite products.

Finlays is the leading independent B2B supplier of tea, coffee and botanical solutions to beverage brand owners worldwide. With deep roots across the globe and unparalleled experience and expertise, no-one is better placed to unleash the potential of natural beverages for brand owners, by bringing the best from bush to cup. We employee people from across the globe.

As a manufacturing facility we have recently launched a brand-new operational strategy that is built upon a people centric approach of providing right, first time quality product to our customer base.

We are on the lookout for passionate, motivated, and willing individuals to come and join us on this journey, as we look to develop our people and teams with the necessary skills to help us develop a continuous improvement mindset in everything we do.

Upon joining the business from day one, you will become a key part of our operations team. During your first three months of employment, you can expect to partake in a three-day tailored induction programme that will arm you with information about all of the critical elements of our business and how your new role forms an essential part of what we do.

We will then focus upon your transition into your new working environment, where each role has a designated function that contributes to the responsibility of ensuring our manufacturing process runs smoothly and efficiently.

It's at this point you will be provided with your key objectives and opportunity to be tea-riffic in your new role, which ultimately results in keeping Britain topped up with some of the hot-beverages that our nation love to devour!, The people are what make Finlays! Our people will go out if their way to make you feel part of the team and support your development within Finlays.

We understand it can be daunting starting a new job. We have a well-rounded induction process to help settle you into Finlays which includes site tours, tea & coffee tasting, and meeting different departments. We have a dedicated training & development team to help you on your journey at Finlays.

At Finlays we work by 3 values trusted, sustainable and innovative. These are incorporated into everything we do, and we are always looking to make Finlays a better place to work.

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We promote all our team members to come to Finlays as their authentic selves and do amazing things. We embrace all individual personal characteristics and create a safe environment for everyone to thrive. We provide regular training to all our team members to promote this.

Please let us know if you need any adjustments making when applying for one of our roles or if you are invited to attend an interview.

Week 1: Monday - Thursday 5am-3pm

Week 2: Monday - Thursday 2pm-12am

This is a weekly rotating shift pattern.

The rate of pay for this role is £13.22 per hour.

Perks of working for Finlays

• You are entitled to 20 days holiday plus 7 bank holidays.


• We provide you with 8 x life insurance


• We have a staff shop


• We have a Health & Wellbeing employee assistance platform - including discounts for big retailers & cashback


• We offer a cycle to work scheme


• Internal recognition schemes (Finlays United Awards, best of beverages awards, long service awards)


• Professional development with opportunities for career advancement


• Continuous learning through workshops, courses, training modules


A bit about the role