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Site Support Assistant - Day Shift

Newhouse

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Job ID 1059871 Job Category Logistics and Supply Chain Hours per Week 37.5 Salary £12.89 - £16.77 hourly rate plus great benefits

Date posted 10/09/2025

Site Support Assistant

£12.89 - £16.77 hourly rate plus great benefits (£12.89/hr base rate plus £1.94/hr after 2pm and £1.94/hr weekend shift allowance

8am - 4pm, any 5 days over 7 including weekends

The Co-operative Retail Logistics, Newhouse CDC401 Edinburgh Road, Newhouse, ML1 5GH

*Please note there is a preferred candidate selected for this role already.*

We’re looking for a site support assistant to join the depot at Newhouse.

In this role, you’ll support a number of team managers and the senior operations team with every day administrative duties. No day will be the same as you help your colleagues with meeting and room bookings, minute taking and the organisation of the post. We’ll also look for you to help on reception, meeting and greeting visitors and making sure that every external visitor that enters our depot has a warm welcome.

What you'll do:

•    Organise and coordinate meetings, prepare agendas and take minutes.
•    Assist the Leadership Team with colleague engagement initiatives and general administrative tasks.
•    Promote site activities and achievements on our in-house social media channels.

This role would suit someone who have:

• previous experience handling diaries and organising meetings

• a confident and outgoing approach

• excellent communication skills and able to work with people at all levels

• great attention to detail

• the ability to prioritise your work load and able to use your own initiative

• experience using Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint

At Co-op you’ll do work that matters, and you’ll be rewarded for your hard work with a competitive salary (including additional shift allowances) and a benefits package which includes holidays starting from 30 days per year (including bank holidays), 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores, a pension with up to 10% employer contributions, plus:

• Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it

• Free employee assistance programme with extensive health, financial and wellbeing support

• Access to credit unions for loans and savings, plus rental deposit loans and season ticket loans

• Free eye tests every 2 years

• On-site facilities including a subsidised canteen and free parking

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

As part of the application process for this job, you’ll need to complete an online assessment. It will take around 10 minutes to complete the test.

We reserve the right to remove a vacancy before the scheduled closing date.

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