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Job Title: Post Room Operative
Contract: Permanent
Type of Employment: Full Time
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £24,.65 per annum
Shift pattern: Monday to Friday
Location: MoD Lyneham, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, SNPZ
The Mail Room Operative role at MOD Lyneham offers an opportunity to join an experienced and versatile team delivering essential services to Armed Forces personnel. Based in a busy mail room environment, the successful candidate will be customer-focused, adaptable, and capable of multitasking as required by the business, with full training provided where necessary. Key responsibilities include ensuring the secure handling and protection of mail and personal information, following all security procedures including identifying and responding to suspect mail, receiving and distributing parcels and letters from Royal Mail and commercial couriers, sorting and redirecting mail accurately within set timescales, and obtaining signatures where required. The role also involves delivering mail around the site using a mail van, collecting and preparing outgoing mail, maintaining a clean and secure work environment, reporting any irregularities, and ensuring compliance with Health and Safety and GDPR regulations. Candidates should be reliable, trustworthy, physically fit, and able to work both independently and as part of a team, with good customer service skills, basic IT literacy, and a flexible approach to changing priorities. A full Category B driving licence and the ability to lift and move sacks and parcels are essential. The position requires MOD security clearance and DBS checks, with UK residency requirements applying for vetting purposes, as well as proof of the right to work in the UK. The role operates on a 37.5-hour Monday to Friday schedule with some flexibility required, and approved company workwear must be worn.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .