Site Maintenance Hygiene Operative

Yeo Valley Organic; United States; On-site; USD 52,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive holiday allowance

Non-contributory pension

Life cover

Healthcare cash back plan

Cycle to work

Product discounts

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

Yeo Valley Organic is seeking a Site Maintenance Hygiene Operative to perform cleaning across the warehouse and assist Maintenance Technicians with repairs. You will ensure compliance with health and safety and environmental regulations, and work closely with site and central teams to quickly complete repairs.

The role is Mon-Fri, 40 hours per week, demanding practical hands-on upkeep and proactive communication.

Qualifications

• Experience maintaining high standard Health & Safety practices.
• Experience with cleaning best practices and standards.
• Basic IT literacy including PEMAC maintenance software.
• Ability to communicate with people at all levels.
• Strong numeracy and literacy.
• Ability to work as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Operate within procedures defined in the Quality Management System.
• Meet SHE legal and environmental targets when completing tasks.
• Maintain high level of site cleanliness using CMMS/ PEMAC and interact with stores and spares.
• Complete routines and schedules per planned maintenance hygiene requirements.
• Prioritize tasks to minimize downtime and operational impact.
• Deliver high standards of maintenance hygiene work.
• Complete all tasks and training as required by the business.
• Collaborate with other teams to manage tasks.
• Understand performance measures and personal contribution.

Skills

Health & Safety

Cleaning experience

IT literacy

Communication skills

Numeracy

Teamwork

Education

IOSH or equivalent Health & Safety qualification

Tools

PEMAC maintenance software

Job description

So, what will I be doing?

As a Site Maintenance Hygiene Operative you will be responsible for performing low and high level cleaning required within and outside the warehouse, in addition assisting the Maintenance Technicians with maintenance and repairs on the facility, equipment and property structures. All work will be done in compliance with environmental and Health and Safety regulations.

A message to all previous applicants...If you applied through Indeed and received an 'Incomplete Application' response, please do re-apply as there was an issue with the Indeed apply function which has now been resolved. We look forward to hearing from you.

This is not just a job, it's the start of your career journey into an organisation that puts people and planet at the heart of what we do!

Internal partnerships are a key part of the role working closely with the site and central teams to ensure repairs are completed quickly and efficiently. Provide knowledge, expertise and a high level of cleanliness standards.

This role is based on a Mon-Fri Shift pattern working 40 hours per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate within the appropriate procedures and systems defined within the Quality Management System
• Ensure SHE Legal and environmental targets are met when completing work tasks.
• Under direction/guidance from the Logistics Maintenance Manager, maintain a high level of site cleanliness with the effective use and interaction with the site computerized Maintenance Management System, stores and spares.
• Complete routines and schedules as per the planned maintenance hygiene requirements.
• Ability to prioritize tasks across site limiting the operational impact of any equipment downtime.
• Deliver the highest standards of maintenance hygiene work.
• Complete all tasks and training as required by the business.
• Collaborate with other teams and co-owners to effectively manage tasks.
• Embrace and understand site, departmental and individual performance measures and the personal contribution to each.

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

Ensuring a safety-first culture in all areas of your work, you will enjoy maintaining cleanliness to a high standard in compliance with audit standards and expectations.

Aptitude and application

Ability to transfer knowledge and experience into application in the workplace. The sharing and development of knowledge throughout the team and others. Managing risk and legal compliance as a department, site and business.

Asset Management & Care

Understanding the importance of a reliability of maintaining a high cleanliness standard with a centered approach and value of condition based preventative maintenance. Effectively self-management and planning to ensure our assets and resources are operating at optimum.

Fault Diagnosis and Resolution

The ability to think analytically in evolving circumstances. Taking a logical approach to fault finding in order to effectively diagnose, rectify and prevent a fault from reoccurrence.

Improving Logistics Capability

Asset improvement through the identification, analysis of faults and evaluation of solutions / opportunities.

Essential

• Experience of maintaining high standards of Health and Safety
• Experience of cleaning best practices with demonstrable capability and application of knowledge
• A basic level of IT literacy including maintenance software e.g. PEMAC
• Ability to communicate with people at all levels
• A good standard of numeracy and literacy
• Ability to work as part of a team

Desirable

• Experience of internal and external high level cleaning
• Health & Safety qualification (IOSH or other recognized qualification)
• COSHH awareness
• IPAF qualification

A proactive communicator, able to express views and ideas at all levels

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.

Benefits

• 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.