Line Tech Operator (dev)

Nestlé; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestlé UK&I in York Factory is seeking a Line Technician Operator to keep chocolate manufacturing and wrapping lines running to high standards. You’ll set up machinery, perform routine maintenance, and support safety and quality at every step across a fast-paced production area.

You’ll work on a 12-hour continental shift pattern, including days and nights, with a focus on problem solving and maintaining product quality for iconic brands like Kit Kat, Aero and Milkybar.

Qualifications

• Keen interest in problem solving and achieving high quality
• Proactive approach with good understanding of health and safety
• Ability to understand and break down issues to find simple solutions
• Comfortable using modern technology in a workplace

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve safety and quality standards
• Operate a complex chocolate manufacturing plant with process control
• Operate a packing machine to achieve good outputs
• Carry out line changeovers (pack sizes or flavours) and communicate with the team
• Create and improve operating standards
• Perform routine maintenance to ensure equipment reliability
• Coordinate and facilitate planned activities on the line

Skills

Problem solving

Health and safety

Plant machinery

Communication

Job description

Nestlé UK&I

Location: York Factory

Process Continental Shift Pattern -12 hr Shifts (combination of days & nights covering 7 days per week, 361 days per year)

Position Summary

As a Line Technician Operator, you will work as a pivotal member of our line operation team, ensuring the manufacturing or wrapping machinery in our factory are set to standards, and basic maintenance tasks are carried out.

Our York Factory is one of the biggest confectionery factories in Nestlé, and the home of iconic brands such as Kit Kat, Aero, and Milkybar. Manufacturing in Nestlé is all about ensuring the consumer receives a perfect quality product every time whilst ensuring the safety of all our employees in the factory.

A day in the life of Line Technician Operator

You could be involved in the manufacturing area of a department, the products of which we are proud, where you are responsible for food safety, critical aspects of manufacturing, ensuring key standards are met and making sure that the product meets the correct high standards each, every time.

You can also be involved in the wrapping and packing of that product, making sure the smooth and efficient operation of the area by taking responsibility for the safety and quality standard compliance of it and ensuring machinery is clean, operating to standard and set up correctly for each format.

You’ll enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to problem solve technical and process issues that may arise on the machinery and using this knowledge to update the operational standards and close issues out at root cause.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain & improve safety and quality standards
• Operate a complex chocolate manufacturing plant and ensure effective process control
• Operate a packing machine and work to achieve good outputs
• Carry out effective line changeovers such as pack sizes or a flavour change and communication to other employees and management
• Create and improve the operating standards
• Carry out routine maintenance care tasks to ensure reliability of equipment
• Coordinate and facilitate planned activities on the line

What Will Make You Successful

This role would be suitable for someone with a keen interest in problem solving, a desire for high standards within their work and achieving high quality with our Famous Household brands. You will have the ability to understand and breakdown issues, finding simple solutions through having a curious mind-set and inquisitive nature.

• A proactive approach and a good understanding of Health and safety
• A keen Interest in plant machinery and manufacturing processes
• Be able to demonstrate the ability to prioritise workloadGood communication skills to be able to support the rest of the team and provide verbal direction
• Comfortable in using modern technology in a workplace

What’s Next?

• Your application will be assessed by our management team
• You will be expected to attend an onsite practical assessment with a focus on completing a task in line with standards provided
• A competency-based interview if successful in the practical.

Right to work in the UK

In accordance with Home Office guidance successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment. We have assessed this role and do not consider that we would be able to sponsor a successful candidate under the Skilled Worker route as the role does not meet the relevant Home Office criteria; the successful candidate therefore must be able to demonstrate their own right to work during the recruitment process without Nestlé sponsorship.

What You Need To Know

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect. When we embrace diversity and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. People of all gender identities, ethnically diverse individuals, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBT+ community are strongly encouraged to apply. If there is anything we can do to accommodate you to participate fully in the application process, please let us know. We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity, our people make up a number of Colleague Networks who represent different experiences and communities who hold us accountable in creating a sense of belonging for all, and our values create the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution you bring. Find out more about our Colleague Networks here: Diversity, equity and inclusion | Nestlé (nestle.co.uk)

We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!