*Internal Application Only* Lead Operator - Nights

Internal Applications Only

At Yeo Valley, we're passionate about nurturing and nourishing people and the planet by making great food the right way, forever.

We are looking for a lead operator to join our nights team at Isleport which is our logistics hub based in Somerset. As a lead member of the team you will be supporting the team in the planning, coordination and optimization of all resources in a defined area of work. You will be the go-to person in the team for support, using your coordination skills you will ensure operational activities are completed and the highest standards of safety, product quality and service levels are delivered to enable the whole team to deliver our fantastic products to our customers.

This role will be 4 nights on 4 nights off working 20:00 to 08:00.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrating a commitment to Health & Safety by working in a safe manner, role modelling our safety behaviors, challenging unsafe practices, rectifying unsafe conditions and escalating to other team members when support is needed.
• Leading the active involvement of the teams in all Health & Safety aspects of their work to support the ongoing improvement to safety practices.
• Escalating 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.
• Understanding, leading and maintaining 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.
• Leading the facilitation of Short Interval Control Reviews, establishing actions and owners for the ongoing improvements and coordination of task and resource to optimise the operation.
• Analyses and interprets asset performance to establish areas of opportunity and initiates the necessary support to drive improvements to performance and raw material yields.
• Active involvements in changeover optimisation with the team, identifying areas of opportunity and resource coordination that improve asset utilisation.
• Communicates and shares performance data and ensures team awareness and connection of how their role contributes to the success of the shift, site and business.
• Maintains the accurate and timely recording of downtime and raw material usage across the area in support of focused improvement initiatives.
• Undertake basic fault finding and rectification on equipment and actively support the identification of root cause when escalating to the wider support team when required.
• Energises the team and demonstrates a consistently enthusiastic approach, taking action quickly and encouraging others to do the same.