Process Technician or Multi Skilled Operator or Bagging or Hygiene & Hand stacking - Devon

Arla Foods Deutschland GmbH; England; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job description

Process Technician or Multi Skilled Operator or Bagging or Hygiene & Hand stacking - Devon

Location: Devon, GB

We’re one of the world’s biggest dairy producers. Join our friendly Ingredients Team in production, and you'll contribute to making food that is loved by millions.

The Ingredients department at Arla Foods produces 18000 tons of permeate powder and 4000 tons of whey protein concentrate using membrane, evaporator and drying technology. Our customers use the products as ingredients in foods and dry blend products, and therefore have high demands for quality and food safety. Our raw material is based on whey, which comes from quality cheese production at Taw Valley Creamery.

Create the Future by ensuring that our products can be accurately delivered to our customers on time. You will be part of a high-performance team both delivering and supporting other functions to meet challenging team and personal goals. It’s a fast-paced site and the Operator role will involve working on a 4 on 4 off 12hr shift basis. Your main responsibilities will be around:

• Lead production & coach operators to ensure safety, quality and environment to achieve department KPIs.
• Escalate any serious issues to the Production Team Leader or Production Manager.
• Make decisions to resolve any day to day production issues.
• Operate and monitor state-of-the-art processing equipment to produce demineralized ‘dry blend’ permeate powder and WPC60 to the required standards.
• Work with engineering and other members of the team to reduce lost time due to breakdowns and ensure plant is made available for pre-planned maintenance and projects.
• Use specialist knowledge to analyse processes and make suggestions for optimisation and improvements.
• Actively contribute to problem solving, continuous improvement activities and CAPEX projects to drive the business forward.
• Support the delivery of the Business Plan by active involvement in Business Plan Charters.
• Cleaning/housekeeping to maintain a hygienic and food safe environment, as to be audit ready at all times.
• Ensure that department paperwork is filled out accurately and in full.
• Proactively maintain a safe working environment by raising near misses, risk observations, environmental observations and behavioral safety observations.
• Contribute to completion of risk assessments and standard operating procedures.

Your Skills

• A motivated team player, who can work on their own initiative and make decisions.
• Excellent communication & people skills - ability to build positive working relationships.
• Previous experience in food manufacturing or other related manufacturing/scientific environment preferred but not essential.
• Able to consistently work under pressure, multitask and meet deadlines.
• Analytical and methodical approach to problem solving and an eye for detail.
• Excellent attitude towards quality, food safety and health and safety.
• Excellent IT skills, numeracy and literacy.

If any of these roles sounds like you, you could be just what we are looking for to help drive and support our global business.

Apply

Please apply online or if currently an Arla employee email a CV & Cover letter to Rod Kirk ([e-mail]), Production Team Leader, as soon as possible but no later than Wednesday 19th March.

We have a purpose for Good

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?