Hours: 39 hours per week (07:30 – 16:00 Monday to Thursday and 07:30 – 15:00 on Fridays, but flexibility required)
Salary: £27,500 per annum
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About us
Johnsons Nurseries is a three-generation family business located in North Yorkshire, equidistant between York and Harrogate, with 100 years’ experience in growing and supplying millions of trees, shrubs and plants to UK-wide planting schemes each year.
This is an exciting opportunity for you to be our next Deputy Manager in the Despatch Team. You’ll be coordinating deliveries, loading, checking that all our plants and other goods conform to our specifications and you’ll be helping to manage and guide the Despatch Team.
Your main responsibilities:
1. Making sure that all the team are deployed in an effective and efficient way
2. Working closely with other managers to ensure we can meet customer needs, so they get the best plants when they need them
3. Making sure that all vehicles are loaded in accordance with legal thresholds
4. Experience of working in a horticultural business
5. Effective communication skills to liaise with a wide range of people
Benefits to working at Johnsons:
* Generous holiday entitlement
* Early finish on a Friday
* Food days
* Annual attendance bonus
* Onsite parking
* Ice lollies during the summer
* Profit share bonus
* Pension fund
* Health Shield health cash plan
* Staff events
* Trade Cash and Carry discount
How to apply
If you like the sound of this opportunity and are interested in becoming part of our team, please send your CV and a covering letter, clearly setting out how you meet the requirements of our job role, to recruitment@johnsonsnurseries.co.uk by Thursday 27 February 2025.
The full list of attributes for this job role can be found in our employee specification, where we have also identified how each one will be assessed: therefore, please check this carefully to ensure that your CV and covering letter address all of the relevant attributes we have set out.
Please note: if you do not provide a covering letter to support your application, we will be unable to take your application further.
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