Butternut Box
Production Lead Operator
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Role: Lead Operator
Team: Operations (Production)
Location: Blyth, Doncaster
Shift Based: 4-5-5
Weekends & Nights: Yes
Pay / Salary: £17.19 per hour (£36,776 per year)
📣 A bit about us
At Butternut, our mission is to deliver health and happiness to dogs and their humans all over the world. In order to do just that, we need a hard-working team. And we need quite a big kitchen too. Which is precisely why we have built one.
Located in Doncaster, Rudie's Kitchen is where our Butternut meals will be gently cooked, using human-quality ingredients. Rudie's is also where we will be packaging our meals and boxing them for our customers all over the UK. We are a close-knit team, with a family feel, looking to welcome more like-minded people to our lovely team and keep work life fun and enjoyable.
👋 A bit about the role
As a lead operator you would work in our Production team, in this role you can expect to:
- Coordinate areas & shift responsibilities and work with the team leader to improve shift productivity (plan attainment)
- Conduct quality checks to ensure a great customer experience
- Be the go-to person for all other operatives on shift
- Attend daily review meetings, appointing other operatives duties and appointing staff role changeovers
- Prepare for the shift ahead confirming enough materials and stock are prepared
- Conduct quality checks ensuring that we meet product specifications
- Perform machine/equipment hygiene and changeovers
- Work to relevant standards and Key Performance Indicators
- Be humble in work duties, being open to jump on the production line, get stuck in with cleaning duties and helping other areas of the business
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🐶 A bit about you
- Previous experience as a line leader or area leader within the food manufacturing sector
- Ability to read and communicate confidently in English
- Numerate (able to understand and work with numbers)
- Available for a rotating shift schedule - a mixture of days / nights and some weekend working
- Hard-working & diligent with a hunger to learn
- Comfortable working with raw materials such as beef, pork, chicken, turkey, lamb
- Flexible, pragmatic, resilient & humble
- Committed to food quality & safety
- Loves dogs (naturally)
🥳What's In It For You?🥳
- Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year (equivalent to 33 days holiday)*
- Plus an extra day for each year of service (up to 5 days).*
- 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self care.* (equivalent to 5 days)
- Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
- Enhanced parental leave
- Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Vitality Healthcare.
- Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthy
- Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
- Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
- Say goodbye to parking woes with free parking and electric car charging.
- Team socials & events
- Prepare for adorable office dog overload—meet Cleo, Paxo, Cali, Ronnie, Harvey, Milo, and many more!
- Holidays and Paws days are pro-rata for those working part time or job share
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❗️A few things to note:
- This role is 100% based in our kitchen in Blyth, Doncaster
- We aim to respond to all applicants personally, however, due to the high volume of applications we receive we are sometimes unable to respond to everyone
- As our business has grown so has our responsibility to our community, our planet and our business. We are not perfect, but we are committed to doing business the right way and continually improving our social and environmental performance
We look forward to receiving your application!
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