Food Production Operator

Gap Personnel; Highweek; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A staffing agency is seeking Food Production Operators in Newton Abbot, UK. Successful candidates will join a friendly team focused on production efficiency and food safety. Responsibilities include supporting operational teams, engaging in safety practices, and following quality management systems. Ideal candidates are proactive, communicate well, and have a basic understanding of food hygiene. Benefits include regular training and excellent onsite facilities, including subsidised meals and discounts on products.

Benefits

Subsidised food canteen

Free site parking

Discounted products

Qualifications

• Passion for food production and quality.
• Ability to undertake manual tasks efficiently.
• Understanding of basic food hygiene is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support the production and supply chain teams.
• Engage with challenges to ensure efficiency.
• Commit to H&S practices and report issues.

Skills

Teamwork

Effective communication

H&S compliance

Proactiveness

Job description

Food Production Operator – Days

Site Location: Newton Abbot

Contract: Temporary ongoing

Rotational Shift: 12hr, 4o4o, 6am-6pm

Basic Day Pay Rate: £13.03ph

"Rolling out the green carpet for your career".

Due to continual business growth, gap personnel are currently seeking new team members to join the diverse, friendly, and passionate team at Yeo Valley. Based at their stunning site in Newton Abbot, we have several Food Production Operator positions available with immediate starts.

As a Food Production Operator, you will become an important part of a team supporting the production and supply chain teams on the site you are based. You will support the delivery of daily KPI’s and targets, ensuring high levels of efficiency and food safety standards, whilst working as part of the site’s operations team.

Responsibilities

• Works well within a team, playing an active part in team and business successes.
• Engages with the daily challenges and opportunities and works effectively with others to overcome.
• Work with site teams to ensure effective use of raw materials and resources, active involvement in improvement projects, activities and events aligned to the team and site objectives.
• Demonstrate a commitment to H&S 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.
• Active involvement and commitment to the quality management system, ensuring all relevant controls and procedures are completed effectively to validate food safety controls.
• Escalate any food safety breach or quality issues and ensure that any product below standards is identified and held and the issues are escalated appropriately, resolved, and released.
• Understands and adheres to good manufacturing practices, company standards of hygiene, PPE, and dress code. Practices a 'Clean as You Go' approach, maintaining workplace organisation and visual management standards.

Qualifications and Attributes

Passion; Pro‑active; Able to work well within a team; Able to undertake manual tasks; Work at pace; Able to communicate effectively; Abide by H&S; Understanding of Basic Food Hygiene, Experience within a food production environment (desirable)

Benefits

Leave that to the team at Yeo Valley who will provide you with exemplary training programs and development.

All of this, AND superb onsite facilities: subsidised food canteen offering fresh hot and cold food; vending machines; creative break‑out areas, free site parking; discounted Yeo Valley products; honesty fridges for further food discounts.

Application

What else is left to do? Simply APPLY and let’s get your career started at Yeo Valley.

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