CAREERS AT CHESTER ZOO
Food & Beverage Warehouse & Logistics Assistant
Job reference:001593
Salary:£12,698.40 per annum
Closing date:09/02/2026
Department:Food & Beverage
Location:Chester
Employment type:Permanent
Hours Per Week:20
Job Description
Food & Beverage Warehouse & Logistics Assistant
How would you like to work in a truly unique environment where you can stroll among rare giraffes and tigers on your lunch break?
The Role
Our Food & Beverage Warehouse & Logistics Assistants undertake a variety of warehouse duties. This includes maintaining high internal customer satisfaction levels through excellence in identifying, receiving and ensuring quality of products delivered to and across site. Carrying out warehousing activities, you will be organising storage and inventory space while ensuring the quality and accuracy of all incoming and outgoing stock. You will place all stock orders, receipt and invoice match via our stock management system whilst ensuring food safety standards are maintained at all times.
Our Food & Beverage outlets at the zoo include fast-food restaurants, coffee shops, kiosks and concession stands which are your key internal customers who you will be working with on a daily basis.
What makes Chester Zoo a great place to work?
As the UK’s biggest and best zoo, we have ambitious goals, exciting plans, and there’s always lots going on here. We’re an inclusive and diverse organisation, made up of over 600 permanent and 500 temporary team members, and we know how important it is to invest in our colleagues to help boost their career development. We have ambitious goals, and we want you to be with us for the long term on our exciting journey.
The Package
Your typical working hours will be 7am to 3.30pm, although some evening work may be required. TBC hours per week, 5 days out of 7 on a rota basis including weekends and bank holidays.
• Permanent contract - 20 hours per week
• Salary £12,698.40 per annum
• 33 days annual leave
• Staff pass so you can visit the zoo during your time off plus multiple complimentary tickets for your friends and family
• Access to healthcare plan
• Employer contributory pension scheme
Our Requirements
• Full UK Driving Licence
• A good knowledge of Food & Beverage food safety requirements
• Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Understanding of warehouse software application packages and Microsoft Office proficiency with previous experience of stock ordering and invoicing
• Excellent standard of literacy and numeracy
• Experience of manual handing and lifting heavy loads
Desirable requirements
• Valid UK Forklift Truck Operating Licence
More About Us
We’re not just an amazing, award-winning visitor attraction that’s home to 30,000 incredible animals inside 128 acres of stunning gardens. We’re not just the UK’s most popular zoo. We’re a major wildlife charity that’s committed to the recovery of endangered species, globally. And, as the world faces an extinction crisis, we’re making a hugely significant contribution to conservation at a time when it’s needed most. We are Chester Zoo and we prevent extinction.
We reserve the right to close our vacancies earlier than the listed date if we have received a high level of applications. We recommend that if you do wish to be considered that you submit your application as promptly as possible as shortlisting, and interviews may be taking place whilst the advert is live.