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Driver & Warehouse Operative
£24,785 – £25,798 per year (depending on licence held)
37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Permanent contract
For an application pack, email recruitment@emergemanchester.co.uk, quoting “Driver & Warehouse Operative” in the subject line. Note that we do not accept CVs.
Closing date: 9am on Monday 21st July 2025
We are excited to add a new Driver/Warehouse Operative to our team to help us run our Surplus with Purpose scheme, as well as to support our normal daily operations.
A typical day will include carrying out the daily van safety check, collecting your order lists from the Food Allocations team and then picking the fruit & veg for each order, which will be between 400kgs and 800kgs. After safely building the pallets, you’ll load them onto the van and then unload at the Community Food Members’ (CFMs) site. You’ll collect their empty trays and return them to our Warehouse, perhaps stopping to refuel on the way, where you’ll take on Warehouse duties as required e.g. picking orders, cleaning, goods-in, stock rotation etc.
You are the face of FareShare GM to our CFMs so you’ll need top notch customer service skills, excellent communication skills and a commitment to working in a culturally sensitive way. It’s a physical job so you can comfortably lift up to 25kg at a time repeatedly and throughout the day. For insurance purposes, you need to be at least 25 years’ old, with experience of safely driving commercial vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes. If you have a licence for driving larger vehicles (up to 7.5 tonnes), even better.
Food Allocations Assistant
£9,828 per year
15 hours per week, Monday to Friday
For an application pack, email recruitment@emergemanchester.co.uk, quoting “Food Allocations Assistant” in the subject line. Note that we do not accept CVs.
Closing date: 9am on Tuesday 22nd July 2025
As a Food Allocations Assistant you’ll allocate surplus food to our Community Food Members (CFMs). Working closely with our Warehouse team and volunteers, you’ll quickly and accurately add incoming food to our database and then speak to our CFMs to confirm their orders.
Along with your can-do attitude, you’ll be a strong communicator (both on the phone and in-person) and be able to work quickly under pressure and to tight deadlines: our food needs to move in and out of the Warehouse before it’s past its best. You are curious about food and able to build an understanding of what’s on our database along with the types of food our CFMs are looking for, in order to allocate it efficiently.
We support a wide range of community groups as well as a large number of volunteers who donate their time to support our operation, so you are someone who relates positively to people from a range of backgrounds, skill levels, and levels of motivation.
The role is based onsite at our Warehouse on New Smithfield Market. We are happy to discuss your preferred working days.
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