Process Operative | Grimsby

Meatex Trading Ltd.; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative company as a Process Operative, where your role is crucial in ensuring product quality and safety. This position involves assembling products to meet specifications and collaborating with the production team to achieve operational targets. You'll thrive in a dynamic environment that values your contributions and provides opportunities for personal and professional growth. With a focus on quality and efficiency, this role offers a chance to be part of a leading firm in the food industry, dedicated to delivering exceptional products while fostering a supportive workplace culture. If you're passionate about food safety and operational excellence, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Competitive holiday allowance

Life assurance

Opportunities for development

Share Save scheme

Free car parking

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity

Qualifications

• Experience in safety and food safety awareness is essential.
• Ability to check quality and operate with fairness.

Responsibilities

• Assemble products to specification while ensuring food safety standards.
• Maintain cleanliness and compliance with health and safety policies.

Skills

Safety awareness

Food safety awareness

Quality checking

Open communication

Self-development

Job description

Role: Process Operative/Production Operative
Salary: £12.67 per hour
Shift: 0600-1400 & 1400-2200
Location: Grimsby, Laforey Road

About us:
We are a company that takes pride in our people as it is our people who are at the centre of everything that we do. We have multi-category expertise with a focus on quality and innovation. We deliver what customers need and consumers want with expert taste and growth mindset.

Our business began with meat, and we’ve developed and extended a market-leading expertise within Seafood, with unmatched quality globally. We’re always investing in new technology to deliver more value, efficiency and consumer-led innovative solutions.

What we are looking for:
We are looking for a Process Operative to ensure all products are assembled correctly, to product specification, at the required food safety standard and line speeds. To assist the Team Leader and production team to achieve operational targets and plans. Works collaboratively with other functions, taking a hands-on approach, and providing support where required, outside core functional responsibilities.

Key responsibilities as a Process Operative/Production Operative will include:

1. Be flexible in working, as there is a requirement to work in various line positions and areas of the factory. Tasks will include placement, filling and assembly of items, assembly of packaging, movement and collection of items.
2. Ensure full conformance to all safety rules, and that all practices comply with Health and Safety policies and training.
3. Ensure the product is handled correctly and efficiently, ensuring the visual standard of the product is achieved, including distribution, and that correct quantities conform to line specifications.
4. Meet targets for the line, specifically safety, quality, service, and cost.
5. Keep the work area clean, tidy, and technically conforming at all times.
6. Maintain legal requirements of all materials and processes to produce safe food. Deliver the quality line standards to ensure customer satisfaction.
7. Check the environment for issues as required and report all defects, both on safety and quality, immediately to the Team Leader.
8. Communicate all ideas for improvements.
9. Communicate and act upon instruction from the Team Leader or other management, including their deputies.
10. Promote company property, including equipment, with required care and attention to eliminate careless damage.
11. Adhere to TR077 at all times.

Required experience/expertise to succeed as a Process Operative/Production Operative includes:

1. Safety awareness.
2. Food safety awareness.
3. Awareness of operational costs.
4. Awareness of customer and technical requirements.
5. Checking quality.
6. Operating with fairness and consistency.
7. Self-development, taking responsibility for own development.
8. Open communication, giving information and listening to others.
9. Drive to get the job done, working enthusiastically and tenaciously to achieve goals.

What you get in return:

1. Great package with competitive holiday allowance.
2. Life assurance of minimum two times yearly salary.
3. Opportunities for development and internal promotion.
4. Share Save scheme.
5. Free car parking on site.
6. Enhanced Maternity/Paternity.