Jobs in Swadlincote

Swadlincote is a town of around 34,500 (2021 census) and the main population and employment centre of South Derbyshire, sitting near the Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire border. Its working history is ceramics and clay — sanitary ware, pipes and pottery, built on local fire-clay — and while the kilns have largely gone, the town has kept a manufacturing and distribution base. Live vacancies skew towards production, warehouse and driving roles, with health-and-care and retail underneath, and a smaller tier of professional and technical jobs on the business parks.

The largest single employer based in the town is IVC Brunel Healthcare, the UK's biggest vitamin and supplement manufacturer, headquartered in Swadlincote with around 550 staff at its William Nadin Way site. Most of the volume hiring is on the industrial estates. Tetron Point off the A444 (DE11 0BB) houses GXO Logistics, WestRock packaging and IVC Brunel, with the Construction Academy run by Burton and South Derbyshire College alongside. The Optimum and Orbit business parks on William Nadin Way (DE11 0WT) add trade-counter and light-industrial units, including Screwfix and Toolstation, while Cadley Hill Industrial Estate (DE11 9EU) and Bretby Business Park carry more manufacturing and office occupiers. There is more work just outside town — Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK at Burnaston, a short drive north, employs around 2,300 and feeds a wide automotive supply and logistics chain across the area.

Recruitment for the production and warehouse work is largely agency-led — Essential and Pertemps run shift vacancies at the food, packaging and supplement plants. Transport is road, not rail: Swadlincote has no passenger station, so the nearest is Burton-on-Trent, about five miles away, on the CrossCountry Birmingham to Derby line. The A511 links to Burton and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, the A444 runs down to the A42/M42 for the M1 and Birmingham, and the A38 sits a few miles north for Derby and the A50. Postcodes are DE11 for the town and its suburbs — Church Gresley, Newhall, Midway and Woodville — with DE65 covering the villages towards Hatton and Hilton.