Proper Cornish
Packing Operative - Machine-Made Products (17:15 to 03:30)
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Join Our Packing Team – Machine-Made Products (Evening/Night Shift)
Hours
- 17:15 until 03:30 (approx. depending on production needs), 4 days out of 5 (Monday to Friday, with one rotational day off per week)
Breaks
- 2 x 30 minutes per shift
Pay
- £13.21 per hour standard rate
- Enhanced rate of £16.51 per hour for hours worked between 20:00–06:00, or hours worked over 37.5 hours per week.
- Earn more as you learn: This role offers competency-based pay progression. As you complete training, gain experience, and are signed off on additional skills and responsibilities, your earning potential increases.
What You’ll Do
As a Packing Production Operative within our Machine-Made Products Team, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring our delicious pastries are packed accurately, efficiently, and to the highest quality standards. This is a hands-on role that requires attention to detail, teamwork, and the ability to remain on your feet for most of the shift.
Your Training Journey
During your first few weeks, you’ll learn the entry-level packing tasks. As your confidence and skills grow, you’ll progress onto more complex packing operations, with ongoing training and sign-off at each stage. The more you learn and the more skills you’re signed off on, the more you can earn.
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Key Responsibilities
- Checking finished products for quality, ensuring correct size, shape, and compliance with product specifications
- Packing finished products into boxes accurately and efficiently in line with product specifications
- Operating and loading packing conveyor belts and preparing products for dispatch
- Assembling boxes and maintaining packing equipment to keep operations running smoothly
- Palletising and wrapping completed boxes ready for shipment
- Supporting other departments when required, giving you the opportunity to gain broader experience across the business
Full training is provided.
After Successfully Completing Your Probation Period, You Will Gain
- Food Safety Level 2 certificate
- Health & Safety Level 2 certificate
Why Join Proper Cornish?
You’ll be part of a supportive, friendly team in a growing business where quality and people truly matter. We are proud holders of a Gold Health and Wellbeing Award, reflecting our commitment to looking after our colleagues.
As we continue to grow, we offer excellent opportunities to:
- Learn new skills
- Increase your earnings through competency sign-off
- Gain experience across different departments
- Develop your career and progress internally
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We are guided by our values of Customer First, Honesty, Quality, Friendliness, and Passion. With around 250 colleagues, we take pride in making the world a better place every day by filling it with delicious pasties and savoury pastry delights.
Proper Perks
- Free pasties and pastries every day
- Free fruit and drinks
- Subsidised canteen
- Monthly colleague treats and regular staff BBQs
- Bake sales and competitions
- Christmas goodies and celebrations
- Free use of spa and golf facilities in St Austell
- Subsidised massages
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Company-funded Health Cash Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme (24/7 free and confidential helpline)
- Death in Service Plan
- £500 colleague referral bonuses
- Staff discounts on pasties, pastries, cakes, and tarts
- Local business discounts
- Excellent training and career development opportunities
- Employment anniversary cash awards
Ready to Join the Team?
If you’re a team player with a positive “can-do” attitude and want to be part of a friendly, rapidly growing company where your skills and development are rewarded, we’d love to hear from you!
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