Join Our Team - Job Vacancies at Brookside Plant Nursery

Would you like to join our team? We’re set in an amazing countryside location in the beautiful village of Hints (near Tamworth and Lichfield) We’re a fun, friendly and rewarding place to work and we are currently hiring for our busy Spring season. Apply for our current open roles below:

Delivery Processing Team Member - Temporary - Spring 2025 Start

Brookside Plant Nursery are looking for an energetic and highly motivated individuals to come and join our seasonal team. Directly assisting the Warehouse and Logistics Supervisor, as a Good-in Processor, your job will be to help process supplier deliveries of plants in a quick and efficient manner. You will also help with the collation of stock ready for our assembly team to process the following day. We are looking for a candidate who ideally has prior experience working in a similar delivery processing role (although not essential). You will be able to provide examples from previous roles of excellent organisational skills, time management and working to tight deadlines.

This is a fixed term Temporary contract of approximately 10 weeks starting ASAP. Your shifts will be Monday - Thursday inclusive (including bank holidays), starting from 8.30am-4.30pm shifts. Approx. 30 hours a week, in return we offer you an hourly rate of £12.20, 15% staff discount plus other benefits. Unlike a normal warehousing location, we are set in the beautiful village of Hints in Tamworth. Come and join our expanding and friendly team, in a fun and exciting place to work, in a fast-growing ecommerce company.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Accurately place plant deliveries in their designated locations.
• Ensure daily order tasks are done on time and in full for the order assembly team.
• Maintaining a clean and tidy work area
• Ensure daily picking goals and accuracy standards are met.
• Maintain a high level of health and safety standards
• Be willing and able to adapt to other tasks as and when required in the business.

Skills and experience -

• Good attention to detail.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, busy environment
• Excellent communication, literacy and numeracy skills
• Ability to lift heavy objects up to 20kg
• Ability to stay on feet for long periods of time with frequent walking and activity
• Ability to work well as a team but be self-motivated and independent at times
• Delivery processing and order picking experience would be useful but not essential.
• Demonstrate occasions you have worked to deadlines and how you managed to achieve these deadlines.

Benefits.

• Hourly pay £12.20 per hour.
• 15% staff discount.
• Workplace incentives
• Free on-site parking

Should you be successful in progressing to an interview, you will be required to attend an on-site assessment where you will need to demonstrate your skills and experience as a packer.

Driving licence will be a must due to our location in Tamworth and no major bus routes operator around this location.

Right to Work Documentation must be presented at interview.

Please note, unfortunately we aren't able to offer sponsorship

Job Types: Temporary contract, Part-time, Fixed term contract

Expected start date: 18/03/2025

Order Packing Team Member - Temporary 10 week role

Brookside Plant Nursery are looking for energetic and highly motivated individuals to come and join our seasonal team. Working in our busy packing department, your job will be to pack orders ready for collection from our delivery partners, in a quick and efficient manner to targeted packing rates. We are looking for candidates who have prior experience working in a packing environment. You will be able to provide examples from previous roles of excellent organisational skills, time management and working to tight deadlines. This is a fixed term contract of 10 weeks starting 25th March. Your shifts will be Monday to Thursday inclusive (including bank holidays), starting from 9am-5pm (to be confirmed). Approx. 30 hours a week. In return we offer you an hourly rate of £12.20.

Unlike a normal warehousing location, we are set in the beautiful village of Hints in Tamworth. Come and join our expanding and friendly team, in a fun and exciting place to work, in a fast-growing ecommerce company. You will receive a 15% staff discount online and in our retail nursery and free on-site parking

Roles and Responsibilities

· Pick and Pack customers’ orders quickly and efficiently to targeted packing rates.

· Using an order management system, you will scan and print customers’ orders to produce postage labels (Full training given)

· Maintaining a clean and tidy work area

· Ensure individual order packing standards are met daily.

· Maintain a high level of health and safety standards 

Skills and experience

· Good attention to detail.

· Ability to work in a fast paced, busy environment.

· Excellent communication skills.

· Ability to lift heavy objects up to 20kg

· Ability to stay on feet for long periods of time with frequent walking and activity

· Ability to work well as a team but be self-motivated and independent at times

· Order packing or relevant experience is essential.

Benefits.

· Hourly pay £12.20 per hour.

· 15% staff discount.

· Workplace incentives

· Free on-site parking

Employee discounts

On-site parking

Job Types: Part-time, Fixed term, Temporary

Contract length: 10 weeks

Part-time hours: 30 per week

Driving licence will be a must due to our location in Tamworth and no major bus routes operator around this location.

Should you be successful in progressing to an interview, you will be required to attend an on-site assessment where you will need to demonstrate your skills and experience as a packer.

Schedule: Day shift
 
Experience: Picking & packing: 1 year (required)
 
Work Location: In person
Expected start date: 24/03/2025