Milk & Farm Vending Supervisor

Job Description

About Us

Woodhorn Farm is looking for a practical, detail-focused Milk & Farm Vending Supervisor to lead the day-to-day pasteurisation and vending operation across three on-farm retail sites. This is a hands-on supervisory role with real ownership of standards, compliance and customer experience.

Why join us? You’ll play a key role in a growing farm-to-customer business, working with a friendly team and making a visible difference every day.

Job Responsibilities:

• Run daily milk pasteurisation safely and in line with regulations and site procedures
• Operate and check equipment; record temperatures, volumes and traceability accurately
• Manage milk storage and segregation; spot issues early and take appropriate action
• Keep food safety, cleaning and traceability records up to date so sites remain audit-ready
• Own vending machine standards across sites: stocking, hygiene, presentation and uptime
• Coordinate stock movement between sites and liaise with engineers/suppliers to resolve faults
• Support and guide colleagues as needed; be a dependable on-site point of contact
• Work closely with marketing—share availability updates, support promotions and pass on customer feedback

Required Experience/Qualifications:

• Experience in manufacturing, food production, or another regulated environment
• Strong understanding of systems, compliance and record keeping
• Excellent attention to detail
• Confident working independently across multiple sites
• Flexible and adaptable – this role is a full-time role on a rolling fortnightly rota, with regular weekend working
• Full UK driving licence (with 6 points or fewer, van provided for work use only)
• Willingness to embrace training – full training will be provided for this role

Beneficial Knowledge/Experience:

• Experience with pasteurising equipment
• Supervisory or senior operative experience
• Food hygiene qualification
• Basic mechanical/fault-finding skills

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Sick pay
• Free parking
• Additional leave
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Company events
• On-site parking
• Training provided
• Working in a beautiful countryside location near Chichester.
• A key role in a growing on-farm processing and retail business

We believe in looking after our people, so as well as your salary, we offer a bonus scheme, health cash plan scheme, annual salary review, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay, and regular staff events.