Yeo Valley Organic
Technical Operator - Days
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Are you technically minded and looking to grow your career in food production? We are looking for a Technical Operator to join our friendly and fast-paced team at our Cannington Site.
As a Technical Operator, you will be an important part of a team supporting the production at Cannington. You will operate and optimise complex machines or processing equipment, ensuring we maintain the highest standards of product quality. You will be the go-to person for all in the team that need support with complex operational processes, improving complex machines, or identifying the root cause of underlying problems.
This role will be on a 4-on 4-off shift pattern working 06:00 - 18:00.
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.
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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.
Sounds interesting, what do I need?
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
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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 1900 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.
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