Tiverton is a mid-Devon market town of around 22,000, sat where the Exe and Lowman meet, and its single best-known employer has been making cloth here for over two centuries. Heathcoat Fabrics, on the Westexe side of the river off Leat Street (EX16 5LL), is a long-established technical textile manufacturer. These days that means high-performance fabrics for aerospace, defence parachutes and industrial use rather than the lace the firm started with. It carries a few hundred staff across knitting, weaving, dyeing and finishing, and current vacancies in the town lean towards manufacturing, warehousing, care and trade-counter retail.
Most of the other work clusters in the EX16 6 area off the A361 link road on the western edge of town. Tiverton Business Park, along Lowman Way, holds the big-shed retail and trade names: The Range, B&M, City Plumbing, Denmans and National Tyres. HepcoMotion, the linear-motion engineering firm, runs its plant nearby on Tiverton Way. Mole Valley Farmers operates a large store in the town, though the group's head office is at South Molton. Add Tesco, the NHS at Tiverton & District Hospital (part of the Royal Devon trust), Mid Devon District Council at Phoenix House and Blundell's School, and that accounts for most of the steady local employers. A share of the picking, packing and care vacancies is placed through agencies in Exeter and Cullompton as well as direct.
Transport: Tiverton Parkway sits about six miles east of the town beside Junction 27 of the M5, on the main line to London Paddington. The fastest services run around 1h50, with most nearer 2h10, and Exeter is about 15 minutes the other way. The A361 North Devon Link Road feeds straight onto the M5 at J27, which is why a fair amount of logistics and distribution work is within commuting reach. Postcodes: EX16 covers the town and surrounding villages, with EX16 6 being the business-park side to the west.
Jobs in Tiverton
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Frequently asked questions
Who are the biggest employers in Tiverton?
Heathcoat Fabrics off Leat Street is the standout, a long-established technical textiles manufacturer and one of the town's largest single employers. Beyond it, the main sources of work are the trade and retail units at Tiverton Business Park (The Range, B&M, City Plumbing, Denmans, National Tyres), HepcoMotion engineering, Mole Valley Farmers, Tesco, the NHS at Tiverton & District Hospital, Mid Devon District Council and Blundell's School.
Where is Tiverton Business Park and what work is there?
It's on the western edge of town off the A361 link road, in the EX16 6 postcodes along Lowman Way. The mix is trade counters, big-box retail, warehousing and light engineering, so the roles there cover shop-floor, stock, driving, customer-service and production work. It's the main concentration of non-textiles vacancies in the town.
Can I commute from Tiverton to Exeter or further afield for work?
Tiverton Parkway station is about six miles east at M5 Junction 27, with Exeter around 15 minutes by train and London Paddington roughly two hours, nearer 1h50 on the fastest services. The A361 joins the M5 at the same junction, so Exeter, Taunton and Cullompton are all realistic daily commutes by car.