Location
Cannington
Position
Operations
Advertising Salary
16.95 p/h
Advert Closing Date
30 Apr 2026

So, what will I be doing?

Yeo Valley is not just a dairy manufacturing company, we are the manufacturing company that produce over 25% of the UKs packaged yoghurt, created by with a stellar reputation and a passion Yeo Valley is known for its commitment to organic farming, sustainability, and animal welfare.

You will work as an important part of a team supporting the production or supply chain team on the site you are based. Whilst ensuring a safe working area, you will operate and optimise complex machines or processing equipment, ensuring we maintain the highest standards of product quality. Utilising your operational and mechanical skills and knowledge, you will be the go-to person for all in the team that need support with complex operational processes, optimising complex machines or identifying root cause of underlying problems. Through the undertaking of maintenance tasks, validation checks and optimisation of the machines, you will ensure the team are able to meet their daily Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) with optimal utilisation of our assets and raw materials.
 

Your responsibilities:

 

 

  • Demonstrate 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.
  • Undertake routine checks to validate and maintain equipment safety control systems to maintain statutory compliance. 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.
  • 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.
  • Understands, adheres and leads good manufacturing practices and company standards of hygiene, PPE, and dress code. Role models a 'Clean as You Go' approach, leading 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 lead the mechanical improvement activities that ensure effective use of resources.
  • Analysis and interpretation of operational machine parameters to support your effective decision making and drive improvements.
  • Ensure the accurate and timely recording of downtime and raw material usage in an area.
  • Undertake advanced/complex fault finding, decision making and rectification on equipment and lead the identification of root cause, escalating to engineering when required.
  • Ensuring all equipment is properly cared for by the completion of effective cleaning and maintenance tasks.
  • Work across the team and effective handovers to understand common challenges and opportunities seeking to identify where investigations may help most.
  • Train and validate understanding to the highest standard, coaching and mentoring others to build capability.
  • Energises the team and demonstrates a consistently enthusiastic approach, taking action quickly and encouraging others to do the same.
 

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

Quality & Customer Focus

Sets the Food Safety standards within their teams on Food Safety. Understands the quality management process, and controls, ensuring all measures are completed and documented as required. Sets specific KPIs for teams and areas. Reports on levels of compliance and actively coaches' teams to develop.

Problem Solving and Decision Making

Clarifies ambiguous problems, questioning assumptions to reach a full understanding. Performs complex analysis uncovering critical and underlying insights to understand the problem. Uses skills, knowledge and judgement to generate and evaluate solutions to determine the best way forward. Supporting the team to find solutions to challenging issues.

Results Focused

Thrives on being part of a team that are focused on achieving success and contributes by ensuring actions are assigned to the most appropriate individuals. Demonstrates a consistently energetic approach, taking action quickly and encouraging others to do the same.

Fault Finding & Asset Optimisation

Can determine failure points on equipment and will support re-engineering activities. Enhances standard running procedures to improve efficiencies & machine reliability. Actively contributes to the maintenance program and is able to determine when changes to the CMMS as required. Is able to support and train others in equipment operation and fault-finding techniques.

Systems & Processes

"Diagnoses complex issues by comprehensively evaluating a broad range of variables, anticipating wider organisational implications of changing or introducing new processes. Can identify process deviations and maintain process stability. Considers and implements process control into areas of the operation where opportunities exist to optimise product quality.

  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
  • Engineering skillset

Why should I join the family?

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. It goes without saying that you'll have access to free parking, top of the range personal protection equipment (PPE) and your own locker.

You'll also receive the following:

  • 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.

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