Ruminant Feed Technician

Carrs Billington Agriculture; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agricultural business based in Lancashire is seeking a self-motivated individual for a role in ruminant agriculture. Responsibilities include ensuring that feed ingredients meet legal and nutritional requirements, supporting product formulations, and adhering to safety protocols. Essential skills include attention to detail and numeracy. The position offers an attractive salary package, health benefits, and development opportunities.

Benefits

Annual salary reviews

Minimum of 25 days annual leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Staff discount

Pension enrolment after 3 months

Responsibilities

• Ensure feed ingredients meet nutritional and safety requirements.
• Support the Formulations Team in product formulations.
• Maintain master data on accounting software.
• Circulate QC data and maintain raw material matrix.
• Assist in HACCP compliance at manufacturing sites.
• Administer the feed complaints system.
• Assess and test raw materials and finished products.
• Adhere to company policies and procedures.

Skills

Attention to detail

Numeracy skills

Familiarity with Excel

Knowledge of animal agriculture

Agricultural qualification

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity based at our Lancaster site. This role is ideal for a self-motivated person looking for a career in ruminant agriculture. Working from our mill as part of the Formulations & Technical Team, the role involves both office-based feed formulation and support of the company's manufacturing plants, sales teams and customers. There is a track record of developing new starters from this role into a range of other roles within the Carr's Billington business.

This is why every role at Carr's Billington is hugely important to our shared success and why we welcome talent from across all different backgrounds to work across our retail, feed, machinery, fuel and central support divisions.

Responsibilities

• To ensure that feed ingredients and manufactured feeds meet commercial, nutritional, feed safety and legal requirements, and to support the Formulations, Quality Control and Product Assurance Teams in their key roles.
• Support the Formulations Team in the creation and maintenance of the company\'s product formulations according to relevant legal, nutritional, cost and mill constraints and also in blend formulations at request of salespeople or the Formulations Team.
• To play a role in maintaining master data on the company\'s accounting software system.
• Review and circulate QC data, maintain the company\'s Format raw material matrix and action follow-up investigation and/or corrective action as required with support from the Formulations Manager and Raw Materials Manager.
• Assist in the implementation of and compliance with HACCP, the AIC Universal Feed Assurance Scheme (UFAS) at all manufacturing sites and the Feed Materials Assurance Scheme (FEMAS) for the Lancaster AminoMax Plant.
• Assist the CBAL Product Assurance Manager in administering the feed complaints system.
• Support the Lancaster Quality Controller in assessing and testing raw materials and finished products as required.
• Adhere to Company and Group policies and procedures, including but not limited to those relating to Safety, Health and Environmental.
• To ensure all relevant legislation and approved codes of practice are adhered to in respect of ongoing compliance, including but not limited to UFAS, FIAS & NOPS assurance schemes.

Skills, experience and qualities

• Essential – Attention to detail
• Essential – Numeracy skills
• Essential – Familiarity and aptitude for Excel and simple statistical methods and presentation
• Desirable – Knowledge and understanding of animal agriculture
• Desirable – Agricultural qualification

Benefits

• An attractive salary package with annual salary reviews in September.
• A minimum of 25 days annual leave.
• Opportunity to work for a well-established family-owned business with ambitions for growth and innovation.
• Your Health: Health Assured – Employee Assistance Programme; Sick pay; Health Cash Plan.
• Your Lifestyle: Staff discount, Cycle to work scheme, Flexible life assurance and critical illness cover, Perks At Work, Salary finance benefits.
• Your Future: Pension enrolment after 3 months; Training & development opportunities identified through annual appraisal.