Overview
We’d love for you to come join us as at Finlays as a blending operative and brew your career with us!
We are looking for passionate, motivated, and willing individuals to join us on this journey, as we develop our people and teams with the necessary skills to help us develop a continuous improvement mindset in everything we do.
About Finlays
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.
Our Finlays purpose is to empower customers to create a world where every sip brings joy.
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.
The role
We are on the lookout for passionate, motivated, and willing individuals to 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 four-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!
Shift Pattern & Pay
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 £13.88 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, Finlays Champion Awards, Long Service Awards)
* Professional development with opportunities for career advancement
* Continuous learning through workshops, courses, training modules
A bit about the role
Working as a blending operative, you will form part of a team that is responsible for the safe and efficient running of blending our raw tea. Here at Finlays we have a wide range of machinery and processes that are each capable of offering our customers different formats of Tea and Coffee bags, just like you would see in a supermarket aisle.
You can expect a tailored training programme to be bespoke to your designated area of working. There are different tasks to complete in blending such as intaking raw materials, compiling, blending, flavouring and providing tea production with raw materials. This will help you along your journey so that you can safely work in different blending tasks and help keep our customers in stock of their favourite products.
FAQs
* When will I hear back about the success of my application?
* How do I prepare for the interview?
* What’s it like to work at Finlays?
We aim to respond to all applicants personally, however due to the volume of applications we receive, this is not always possible. If you do not hear back from us, please assume your application has been unsuccessful at this time.
The people are what make Finlays! Our people will go out of 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 4 values acting for the long term, taking accountability, doing better each time and succeeding together. These are incorporated into everything we do, and we are always looking to make Finlays a better place to work.
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.
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