Milk and Farm Vending Supervisor
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.
Application deadline – 15th May 2026
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.