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Site Maintenance Hygiene Operative

So, what will I be doing?

At Yeo Valley, this is more than just a job. It's the start of a career with an organisation that puts people and planet at the heart of everything we do.

We're looking for a committed and proactive Site Maintenance Hygiene Operative to join our Isleport team and play a key role in maintaining a safe, clean and efficient working environment. If you take pride in delivering high standards, enjoy hands-on work and thrive as part of a collaborative team, we'd love to hear from you.

As a Site Maintenance Hygiene Operative, you'll be responsible for maintaining exceptional cleanliness standards across our warehouse and site facilities. You'll carry out both low and high-level cleaning activities, while also supporting our Maintenance Technicians with repairs and maintenance tasks across the site.

Working closely with site and central teams, you'll help ensure repairs are completed efficiently, equipment downtime is minimised and safety remains a top priority.

This role is based on a Mon-Fri Shift pattern working 40 hours per week.

Key responsibilities:

Maintain high standards of cleanliness across the warehouse and site facilities.
Carry out planned hygiene and cleaning tasks, including high-level cleaning where required.
Support Maintenance Technicians with site repairs and maintenance activities.
Work safely and in line with Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality standards.
Use maintenance systems and follow planned schedules effectively.
Prioritise tasks to minimise disruption and equipment downtime.
Collaborate with colleagues across the business to complete work efficiently.
Complete all required training and contribute to continuous improvement.

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

Essential:

Experience of maintaining high standards of Health and Safety
Experience of cleaning best practices with demonstrable capability and application of knowledge
A basic level of IT literacy including maintenance software e.g. IFS
Ability to communicate with people at all levels
A good standard of numeracy and literacy
Ability to work as part of a team

Desirable

Experience of internal and external high level cleaning
Health & Safety qualification (IOSH or other recognized qualification)
COSHH awareness
IPAF qualification

A proactive communicator, able to express views and ideas at all levels

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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Site Maintenance Hygiene Operative

So, what will I be doing?

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

Why should I join the family?

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