Technical Operator - Days

Yeo Valley Organic; Uplyme; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive holiday allowance

Non-contributory pension

Life cover

Healthcare cash back plan

Cycle to work scheme

Staff product discounts

Partner discounts

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

Yeo Valley Organic is seeking a Technical Operator for our Cannington site to join a friendly, fast-paced production team. You will operate and optimise complex machines, uphold product quality, and support colleagues with challenging processes.

This role runs on a 4 on 4 off shift pattern from 06:00 to 18:00, with responsibilities including safety, quality, and continuous improvement in a busy dairy production environment.

Qualifications

• Experience as a machine operator in a production setting.
• Ability to work safely and follow procedures.
• Capable of manual handling and continuous attention to detail.
• Strong teamwork and communication.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to processes.

Responsibilities

• Operate and optimise complex machines to meet production targets.
• Support team with complex processes and diagnose issues to identify root causes.
• Ensure food safety and quality standards are maintained at all times.
• Maintain equipment safety checks and participate in continuous improvement.

Skills

Teamwork

Manual tasks

Attention to detail

Communication

Operator experience

Tools

Machine controls

Job description

So, what will I be doing?

Are you technically minded and looking to grow your career in food production? We are looking for a Technical Operator to join our friendly and fast paced team at our Cannington Site.

As a Technical Operator you will be an important part of a team supporting the production at Cannington. You will operate and optimise complex machines or processing equipment, ensuring we maintain the highest standards of product quality. You will be the go-to person for all in the team that need support with complex operational processes, improving complex machines or identifying root cause of underlying problems.

This Role will be on a 4on 4 off shift pattern Working 06:00 - 18:00

Your Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a commitment to Health & Safety by working in a safe manner, role modelling our safety behaviours, challenging unsafe practices, rectifying unsafe conditions and escalating to other team members when support is needed.


• Undertake routine checks to validate and maintain equipment safety control systems to maintain statutory compliance. Escalate any food safety breach or quality issue and ensure that any product below our standards is identified and held and the issues are escalated appropriately, resolved and released.


• Active involvement, commitment and governance of the quality management system, making sure all relevant controls and procedures are completed effectively to validate food safety controls and the products we make exceed customer and consumer expectations.

What Good Looks Like For This Role

Quality & Customer Focus

Sets the Food Safety standards within their teams on Food Safety. Understands the quality management process, and controls, ensuring all measures are completed and documented as required. Sets specific KPIs for teams and areas. Reports on levels of compliance and actively coaches' teams to develop.

Problem Solving and Decision Making

Clarifies ambiguous problems, questioning assumptions to reach a full understanding. Performs complex analysis uncovering critical and underlying insights to understand the problem. Uses skills, knowledge and judgement to generate and evaluate solutions to determine the best way forward. Supporting the team to find solutions to challenging issues

Essential

• Good team working skills


• Able to undertake manual tasks


• Attention to detail


• Effective communication


• Relevant work experience as a machine Operator in a production environment

Desirable

• Basic Food hygiene


• Knowledge of HACCP


• Engineering skillset

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 1900 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 including:

• 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 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.