Job description
- Newton Abbot, Devon, England
- Temporary,
- undefined,
- StoresNA26
- 05/02/2026
Job description
Stores Operative - Supervisor
Site Location: Newton Abbot, TQ12
Contract: Temporary ongoing
Shift: 40 hours, Monday to Friday, day time, weekend availability required
Pay Rate: £13.03 per hour, paid weekly
“Rolling out the green carpet for your career.”
Due to continued business growth, gap personnel are excited to be recruiting for a Stores Operative to join the friendly, diverse, and passionate team at Yeo Valley in Newton Abbot.
Your Role as a Stores Operative:
As a key member of the site’s stores team, your responsibilities will include:
- Carrying out stock check and booking in of parts for engineering stores in Newton Abbot site.
- Minimising down time by making sure critical parts are available.
- Assisting with part identification working closely with part suppliers.
- Assisting with project work as and when required, including the introduction of new parts for new plant and equipment.
- Continuously improving the stores layout and identification of parts for optimised equipment up time.
- Providing specialist knowledge and insight for new and current technologies whilst developing the knowledge in colleagues and wider teams.
- Maintain effective communication including timely escalation of appropriate information with department and site management teams.
- Actively participate in department and cross functional activity to deliver performance against set KPI targets to ensure all aspects of engineering are effective with clear actions and focused ownership to control and correct to root cause in a timely manner.
What We’re Looking For:
- An experiences stores person
- Enthusiastic and reliable team players
- Ability to carry out manual handling tasks and work at pace
- Good communication and teamwork skills
- Strong attention to detail and basic numeracy
- Commitment to health & safety and food hygiene practices
- Previous warehouse or food manufacturing experience (desirable)
- Forklift licence (an advantage but not essential)
Everything else?
Leave that to the team at Yeo Valley who will provide you with exemplary training programs and development.
All of this, AND superb onsite facilities:
Subsidised food canteen offering fresh hot and cold food; vending machines; creative break-out areas, free site parking; discounted Yeo Valley products; honesty fridges for further food discounts.
What else is left to do? Simply APPLY and let’s get your career started at Yeo Valley.
If this role is permanent, gap personnel is operating as the employment agency. If this job is a temporary role, gap personnel is operating as the employment business.gap personnel is committed to the selection, recruitment and development of the best people, basing judgements solely on suitability for the job
Whilst we endeavor to respond to all applications individually, due to high volumes, this is not always possible. Thank you for your interest in this role and we look forward to working with you in the future
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