Skilled Operator Fruit Production AM Shift (Mon-Fri)

Yeo Valley Farms (Production) Ltd; South Somerset; À distance; GBP 12 000 - 15 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Holiday allowance

Pension scheme

Life cover

Healthcare cashback

Cycle to work

Staff product discounts

Partner rates

Learning & development

Résumé du poste

Yeo Valley Farms (Production) Ltd in Crewkerne, Somerset are recruiting production operatives to join our fruit team. You will work on the Fruit AM shift, preparing and cooking raw materials to create finished fruit preserves and confectionery items. Full training provided; prior food manufacturing experience is a bonus.

We offer competitive benefits and an engaging team culture. The role is commutable from Yeovil, Chard, Ilminster, Taunton and surrounding areas; opportunities to progress with

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and numeracy skills required.
• Good literacy and ability to follow written instructions.
• Physically demanding role requiring stamina.
• Team orientation and ability to work with minimal supervision.

Responsabilités

• Work in a fast-paced production area.
• Prepare ingredients for production.
• Assist with production and packing of food products.
• Maintain hygiene and cleaning duties as required.
• Accurately complete production records.
• Manual handling tasks.
• Operate MHE as trained.

Connaissances

Communication skills

Numeracy

Literacy

Physical stamina

Team player

Self-motivated

Follow procedures

Unsupervised work

Outils

MHE

Description du poste

So, what will I be doing?

At an exciting time of growth at our Crewkerne production site, we are looking for great people to join us as production operatives, making our great nutritious food within our fruit team.

The site is split into different departments, including Dairy production, making great dairy products, Fruit production, supplying our business with tasty fruit to go into our yogurt and our new Savory production team, who make hearty soups, just in time for autumn.

We are looking at candidates to join our Fruit AM shift (Mon-Fri 0600-1400) in our Production team. Within the production team you will be prepping and cooking raw materials to make finished fruit and confectionary preserve.

Full training is provided, although if you have worked in food manufacturing before, that would be an advantage. There is scope to increase the hourly pay once further training has been completed.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Working in a fast-paced production area
• Preparing ingredients for production
• Assisting with the production and packing of food products
• Carrying out hygiene and general cleaning duties as required
• Accurately completing production records
• Manual handling
• Operating MHE

Some companies might refer to this role as 'Production Operator', 'Skilled Operator' , Multiskilled operator or 'Production Operative'. This role is commutable by car from Yeovil, Chard, Ilminster, Taunton and surrounding areas.

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

• Excellent communication skills
• Good numeracy and literacy skills
• Abilityto work in aphysically demanding role
• A personal commitment to maintaining the highest safety & hygiene standards
• Highly engaged, a good team player
• An ability to work unsupervised
• Able to follow instructions and procedures

Why should I join the family?

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer. It goes without saying that you'll have access to free parking, top of the range personal protection equipment (PPE) and your own locker. You'll also receive the following:

• Competitive holiday allowance
• non-contributory pension scheme
• life cover
• healthcare cash back plan
• cycle to work scheme
• subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
• preferential rates with our partners
• learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can.

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do notaccept speculative agency applications; we willonlyaccept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitmentportalat the point of instruction.