Bakery Operative - Line

Allied Bakeries | part of Associated British Foods plc; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Hovis Bakeries in Liverpool seeks a Bakery Operative to safely and efficiently run bakery plant and equipment as part of a focused team. You will work toward targeted production, ensure quality standards, and contribute to a fast-paced environment.

The role emphasizes safety, learning opportunities, and teamwork across multiple ABF Grocery brands, with room for skill development and career growth within ABF’s bakery operations.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate health and food safety awareness.
• Numerical, reading and information recording skills are essential.
• Advantageous: knowledge of ABSS standards and baking processes.

Responsibilities

• Safely and efficiently operate bakery plant and equipment as instructed.
• Contribute to delivering a production plan and meeting targets.
• Ensure product quality meets required standards.
• Participate in team learning and development (1:1s) and share best practices.
• Be flexible to support other areas of the business as needed.

Skills

Health and Food Safety awareness

Numerical skills

Reading and information recording

Education

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate (CIEH Level 2) IOSH or equivalent

Tools

HMI screens

Job description

Allied Bakeries are owned by Associated British Foods. ABF is a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group with sales of £20.1bn and 138,000 employees in 56 countries. It has significant businesses in Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and Australia. Our sister companies in ABF UK Grocery produce products under many market-leading household brands, including Jordans, Ryvita, Pataks, Blue Dragon & Silver Spoon.

We are proud of our brands: we make top 10 UK grocery brand Kingsmill as well as Allinson’s and Sunblest. You’ll know us best through our white, wholemeal and seeded market-leading loaves, as well as Kingsmill 50/50, the nation’s favourite Healthier White, and our delicious pancakes, crumpets, hot cross buns and other bakery products.

The success of our business depends on us having the right people on the team. We are incredibly passionate about our business, but it isn’t for the faint-hearted – it’s pacey and demanding so our people need to have a positive attitude and to want to work inclusively. We take massive pride in what we do, not least in how colleagues based in our bakeries and depots have one of the best safety performance records in the industry.

Our Grocery Service Centre, based near Liverpool, is a hub for transactional activity across multiple ABF companies within the ABF Grocery division. Supporting some of our well-known brands such as Kingsmill, Pataks, Blue Dragon, Jordans, Ryvita and Silver Spoon, amongst others. We deliver Shared Service activities across a wide range of disciplines including Customer Services, Consumer Care, Finance, Payroll, HR and IS.

Overview Of Role

Company: Hovis Bakeries

Location: Liverpool

The role of a Bakery Operative, is to Safely and efficiently operate as instructed, bakery plant and equipment. Working as part of a team whose aim is to achieve targeted performance, customer satisfaction and quality standards. It is expected that the jobholder will positively contribute to the team environment and seek out development and learning opportunities to further their knowledge and skills

Key Accountabilities

• Engages in the Safety First culture and compliance with AB internal policies and procedures
• To deliver product quality to required standards
• To contribute to the delivery of a production plan
• Ensure that their own, development and training needs are identified. Participate in the proactive environment of learning (1:1’s)
• To actively participate and contribute in the sharing of “Best Practice” within manufacturing

Additional Accountabilities

There is an expectation that any employee within AB demonstrates a flexible and can do approach to their work and may on occasion be required to take part in other areas of the business, to provide resource and expertise as required but also to give the individual opportunity to develop their own skill base and broader knowledge.

The Right Person

Essential

• Demonstrate a good level of Health and Food Safety awareness
• Numerical, reading and information recording skills.

Advantageous

• An in-depth understanding and application of food hygiene/GMP/(ABSS standards)
• Understanding of baking process
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate (CIEH Level 2) IOSH or equivalent
• Ability to demonstrate basic engineering competencies/mechanical empathy
• Understanding of Continuous Improvement techniques
• Computer Literate (understand and interact with HMI screens)