*Internal Applications Only* Lead Operator - Days (3 month Secondment)

Yeo Valley Organic; South Somerset; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive holiday allowance

Non-contributory pension scheme

Life cover

Healthcare cash back plan

Cycle to work scheme

Subsidised Yeo Valley products and 5%

Job summary

Yeo Valley Organic in Crewkerne (Somerset) seeks a Lead Operator for a 3-month secondment on the day shift (06:00–18:00). You will lead and support co-owners to ensure safe, high-quality, and efficient day-to-day operations, coordinating resources across assets and driving performance improvements.

You will motivate and develop the team, manage changeovers, and ensure compliance with GMP, hygiene, and food safety standards while using data to drive improvements across shifts and sites.

Qualifications

• Good team working skills.
• Able to undertake manual tasks.
• Attention to Detail.
• Effective Communication.
• Basic food hygiene (Desirable).
• Knowledge of HACCP (Desirable).
• Experience as a machine Operator in production (Desirable).

Responsibilities

• Demonstrating 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ensuring all equipment is properly cared for through the layered validation of the cleaning tasks and the compliance to the schedule.
• Collate, suggest, initiate and implement improvement activities within own team and outside of team across all shifts.
• Work across the team and effective handovers to understand common challenges and opportunities seeking to identify where investigations may help most.

Skills

Good team working skills

Able to undertake manual tasks

Attention to Detail

Effective Communication

Job description

So, what will I be doing? *Internal Applications Only* Do you have a passion for leading People? We have an excting 3 month Secondment opportunity for a Lead Operator on days shift at our Crewkerne site. This role is all about leading and supporting co-owners to ensure smooth day-to-day operations. You'll be responsible for guiding, motivating, and developing your team to achieve high standards in safety, quality, and efficiency.

As an important part of the Leadership structure you will ensure that the team are able to work productively and effectively. Through the coordination of resources across multiple assets and completing performance improvement meetings on the lines, you will ensure optimal utilization of our assets and the optimal use of raw materials.

This Role is a 4 0n 4 0ff shift pattern - Working hours 0600-1800.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrating 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ensuring all equipment is properly cared for through the layered validation of the cleaning tasks and the compliance to the schedule.
• Collate, suggest, initiate and implement improvement activities within own team and outside of team across all shifts.
• Work across the team and effective handovers to understand common challenges and opportunities seeking to identify where investigations may help most.

Essential

• Good team working skills
• Able to undertake manual tasks
• Attention to Detail
• Effective Communication

Desirable

• Basic food hygiene
• Knowledge of HACCP
• Relevant work experience as a machine Operator in a production environment

Why should I join the family?

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 1700 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.

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.