Night Shift Technical Operator – Food Manufacturing

Yeo Valley Organic; Highweek; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive holiday allowance

Non-contributory pension scheme

Life cover

Healthcare cash back plan

Cycle to work scheme

Staff product discounts

Job summary

Yeo Valley Organic is seeking a Technical Operator for the Nights team at Newton Abbot. The role operates on a 4 days on/4 days off schedule from 06:00 to 18:00, focusing on maintaining and optimising complex production machinery to meet KPI targets.

You will support with preventive maintenance, fault finding, and root-cause analysis while adhering to food safety standards and GMP. The team emphasises collaboration, safety, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience as a machine operator in a production environment.
• Able to undertake manual tasks.
• Good team working skills.
• Desirable knowledge of basic food hygiene and HACCP.
• Engineering skillset is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Undertake routine checks to validate and maintain equipment safety control systems.
• Escalate any food safety breach or quality issue and ensure issues are resolved.
• Adhere to hygiene, PPE and dress code; promote Clean as You Go and visual management.
• Optimize equipment operation to meet production demand and quality targets.
• Perform advanced fault finding and collaborate with engineering for root cause analysis.
• Ensure equipment is cleaned and maintained after use.
• Coordinate handovers and share learnings to address common challenges.
• Motivate the team with a proactive and energetic approach.

Skills

Teamwork

Manual tasks

Attention to detail

Effective communication

Engineering skills

Job description

Yeo Valley Organic is seeking a Technical Operator for the Nights team at Newton Abbot. The role operates on a 4 days on/4 days off schedule from 06:00 to 18:00, focusing on maintaining and optimising complex production machinery to meet KPI targets.

You will support with preventive maintenance, fault finding, and root-cause analysis while adhering to food safety standards and GMP. The team emphasises collaboration, safety, and continuous improvement.