Avara Foods Ltd
Location
Hereford, Herefordshire | United Kingdom
Job description
About the Role:
Who are we, and what do we do?
You may not have heard of us, but there’s a good chance you’ve enjoyed our products. Avara Foods is one of the UK’s leading food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the country’s major supermarkets and well-known restaurants. We own and manage our entire supply chain, from farms to factory and all the way to the customer door – meaning we have careers that cover a whole range of functions. We have major processing sites across England and Wales, and an agricultural network of over 350 farms, spanning from North Yorkshire to the South Coast and Wales. A little about our Hereford site: The Hereford plant is our largest site and processes chicken products across two factory facilities, Grandstand Road and Yazor Road. Grandstand handles processing, whole bird production and portioning, with Yazor responsible for portioning and added value. Across the whole site approximately 2,500 people are employed, and it processes 1.96m birds per week. Pre-joint venture, this site was part of the Cargill Meats Europe estate and traded as Sun Valley Foods prior to this. The EC Code on products from this site is 4014. The site works a double day shift operating primary, portioning, and packing Monday to Friday.About the Role:
Do you want a challenge to kickstart your career within a manufacturing environment? Looking for a company you want to work with and for?
As an inclusive, forward-thinking business, we take pride in our approach to our apprenticeship recruitment across Avara Foods and are looking for a highly competent and motivated Stores Apprentice to join our Engineering Team, based at our advanced manufacturing site located in Hereford.
Merging practical experience with skills-based learning, our apprenticeships are designed to kick-start your career. Our apprenticeship programme offers you the opportunity to gain valuable skills and experience, where you will combine college-based learning with on-the-job training. You will work alongside experts, on real projects that shape our future, and you will have a mentor who will support you throughout the programme.
What will you be doing as a stores Apprentice at Avara?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Engineering Stores Apprentice to support the Engineering Team. You would report to the Engineering MRP Lead and the role would involve engineering store tasks and control of all day-to-day store issues. An FMCG labour-intensive factory environment which is fast-moving and refrigerated in some areas manufacturing short shelf-life products where hygiene standards are critical.
What will your key responsibilities as a stores Apprentice include?
•Booking in and out-of-stock items
•Unloading deliveries and booking in materials.
•Daily Stocktaking to ensure supply of stock items
•Managing oil stores and gas bottle stores, including engineering fuel deliveries
•Raising purchase orders, order tracking, and receipting orders/services within the relevant system
•Dealing with invoice queries and payments
•To arrange repairs for equipment
•Adding and modifying stock items within the stores through the relevant system
•Dealing with customers/suppliers and contractors face to face and on the phone.
• Willingness to learn and an ability to work independently yet as an intrinsic part of the team – Essential
• Has knowledge and experience in Engineering – desirable
• Organisational skills with the ability to work to deadlines, prioritising your workload - Essential
• Intermediate Computer skills – Essential
• Have a minimum of 4 GCSEs at Grade C or above (including M ath's and English)
• Food Hygiene Certificate – Desirable
•Have been a UK/EU/EAA resident for the past three years or more prior to starting the course
The benefits to you, as an Apprentice at Avara Foods:
As a Engineering Stores Apprentice, and as a valued member of our team, you’ll enjoy a secure, supportive, and progressive working environment, where your contribution and achievements will be recognised and rewarded.
Though we offer many opportunities throughout the programme, it is your commitment, determination and resilience that will help to ensure you succeed!
In return for your hard work as an Apprentice, you can also look forward to many benefits which amongst other things, include the following:
•A competitive starting salary per annum - we pay at least the adult National Living Wage.
•Competitive pension scheme.
•Generous annual leave allowance.
•Various lifestyle benefits, such as cashback perks, exclusive shopping discounts from well-known retailers, and discounted cinema tickets!
•Wellbeing resources, including free online health advice & support, and wellbeing assessments.
•Subsidised staff canteen
•Free staff parking
Other important things to know about our Apprenticeships before applying:
We have a duty of care to our colleagues and wouldn't want you to spend a large amount of time commuting, so we require our Apprentices to be based within a reasonable radius of their site location.
You'll need to have the permanent right to stay and work in the UK.
We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer.
You’ll be working in a fast-paced, dynamic FMCG factory environment, which is noisy and refrigerated in some areas, manufacturing short shelf-life products where hygiene standards are critical. The role is both factory and office based.
What happens after you apply for this role?
After you’ve applied, you’ll be contacted in due course by a Resourcing Officer at our Hereford site, to discuss your application and CV further. There’ll also be a chance for you to ask us any questions you may have about the role. If you have any questions regarding this role before this stage, please email us at [email protected].
If you’re ready to work in a dynamic environment alongside talented people who take pride in delivering great results, apply today!
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