Skilled Operator Fruit Production AM Shift (Mon-Fri)

Yeo Valley Production Ltd; South Somerset; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free parking

PPE provided

Personal lockers

Career development opportunities

Holiday allowance

Job summary

Yeo Valley Production Ltd in Crewkerne is hiring production operatives to join the Fruit team, producing nutritious food. Full training is provided, with opportunities to increase pay after completing training.

The role is the Fruit AM shift (Mon-Fri, 0600-1400) and duties include preparing ingredients, production and packing, while upholding hygiene standards. Training is provided to help you grow within the business.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills.
• Good numeracy and literacy skills.
• Ability to work in a physically demanding role.
• Commitment to safety and hygiene standards.
• Highly engaged and a good team player.
• Able to work unsupervised.
• Able to follow instructions and procedures.
• Experience in food manufacturing is advantageous.
• Manual handling.

Responsibilities

• Work in a fast-paced production area.
• Prepare ingredients for production.
• Assist with production and packing of food products.
• Carry out hygiene and general cleaning duties.
• Accurately complete production records.
• Manual handling.
• Operate MHE.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Good numeracy and literacy

Physically demanding role

Safety & hygiene standards

Team player

Able to work unsupervised

Follow instructions & procedures

Tools

MHE

Job description

• Manual handling

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.

• Excellent communication skills
• Good numeracy and literacy skills
• Ability to work in a physically 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

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.

Benefits

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.

Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.