Multi Skilled Operator - Logistics Days

You will work to ensure the delivery of daily KPI’s and targets in your area, ensuring high levels of efficiency and food safety standards.  In your role you will complete first line reactive and proactive maintenance tasks ensuring optimal utilisation of our assets and the optimal use of raw materials.  

Your responsibilities:

• Demonstrating a commitment to Health & Safety by working in a safe manner, role modelling our safety behaviours, challenging unsafe practices, rectifying unsafe conditions and escalating to other team members when support is needed.
• Active involvement, commitment and governance of the quality management system, making sure all relevant controls and procedures are completed effectively to validate food safety controls and the products we make exceed customer and consumer expectations. Escalate any food safety breach or quality issue and ensure that any product below our standards is identified and held and the issues are escalated appropriately, resolved and released. 
• Understand, adhere to and lead good manufacturing practices and company standards of hygiene, PPE, and dress code. Role models a 'Clean as You Go' approach, maintaining workplace organisation and visual management standards with the team.
• Effective operation and optimisation of equipment and priorities to meet the production demand and delivery of the highest quality of products.
• Through the ownership of performance and yield in your area/asset you will optimise running conditions and actively participate in improvement activities that ensure effective use of resources.
• Ownership of the changeover activities and material replenishment in your area/asset, optimising resources and raw material yields.
• Analysis and interpretation of operational machine parameters to support your effective decision making and drive improvements.
• Ensuring the accurate and timely recording of downtime and raw material usage in an area.
• Undertaking basic fault finding and rectification on equipment and actively support the identification of root cause when escalating to the wider support team when required.
• Ensuring all equipment is properly cared for by the completion of effective cleaning and basic maintenance tasks. 
• Making decisions to support improvement to the area KPIs and makes recommendations for the continual improvement to equipment or processes with the Lead Operator or Line Manager.
• Energising the team and demonstrates a consistently enthusiastic approach, taking action quickly and encouraging others to do the same.

Essential:

• Good team working skills
• Able to undertake manual tasks
• Attention to Detail
• Effective Communication
• Relevant work experience as a machine Operator in a production environment

Desirable:

• Basic food hygiene
• Knowledge of HACCP
• FMCG experience

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including:

• competitive holiday allowance
• non-contributory pension scheme
• life cover
• healthcare cash back plan
• cycle to work scheme
• subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
• preferential rates with our partners
• learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.