PRODUCTION OPERATOR SHIFT

Join our production team and play a key role in delivering high-quality malt to customers around the world. As a Shift Operator, you will help ensure our malt consistently exceeds customer quality expectations while supporting efficient, cost-effective operations from barley intake through to malt dispatch.

You will contribute to a safe, sustainable, and high-performing workplace by actively promoting a zero-harm culture, prioritising the health and safety of everyone on site, and helping to minimise our environmental impact.

In this hands-on role, you will monitor and control the day-to-day operation of the barley intake, drying, and malt production processes, as well as the dispatch of malt and co-products, ensuring smooth and efficient production across the site.

Key responsibilities:

• Production Process
  • Control of the malting production process from barley to malt including barley intake, barley drying and screening, steeping, germination, and kilning as per process instruction and control via PLC.
  • Conduct & record confirmation of checks on process batch cards.
  • Monitoring of process control and reaction to any adverse conditions associated with the malt process.
  • Alerting management of any deviations in process control.
  • Preparation of samples.
  • Weighbridge operation.
  • Barley dressing.
  • Checks before dispatch (Lab checks).
  • Reporting of breakdowns/faults and initial inspections.
  • Complete detailed end of shift handover & communicate to oncoming Shift Operator.
• Hygiene/Cleaning
  • Completion & confirmation of completion (or justification of non-completion) of jobs as detailed on cleaning sheets.
  • Working on own initiative, prioritise accordingly any other hygiene requirements which are not specifically scheduled on the issued cleaning sheet.
• Documentation and Records
  • All required documents to be completed including barley dressing sheet, screenings analysis, barley drying sheet, batch record sheets, cleaning sheet, magnet record sheets, checks before dispatch, shift change sheets, shift check sheets, fault log/maximo, and lab analysis sheets.
• Statutory/Legal Obligations
  • Ensure compliance with all current legal & statutory obligations including Health & Safety, HACCP/food safety, environmental and employment legislation.

Qualifications/skills:

• Understanding of the full malting process to operate the site during a single person 12hr shift.
• The ability to attain MAGB Fundamentals in Malting qualification within 3 years of starting employment.
• Conduct barley quality analysis on incoming loads and malt quality checks pre-despatch.
• Operation of weighbridge system & loading of lorries with malt & co-products as required.
• Understanding the electrical and mechanical operation of the site & ability to undertake basic fault finding & report process deviations or machinery faults.
• Provide direct assistance to shift engineer partner and other engineers.
• Understanding the importance of health & safety, food & feed safety, site hygiene, environmental issues and accurate record keeping.
• Basic to intermediate level IT skills.
• Ability to follow process instructions and work on own initiative.
• Practical hands-on attitude with good situational awareness and the ability to complete documented risk assessments.
• Able to actively participate in daily operations meetings.
• Able to successfully complete training including safety-related courses, telehandler and shovel loader driver training.

Advantages:

We offer an attractive salary and benefits package and as part of a global organisation can offer career opportunities internationally. We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration and health and wellbeing.

We live our values, putting people at the heart of what we do. “Strive” - our ambition is to be the best maltster. “Care” - our strength is magnificent when we care for our earth, our colleagues and our business partners. “Inspire” - we deliver sustainable performance through innovation and digitisation. “Explore” – we embrace pioneer ideas to develop full potential.

The company:

BOORTMALT is a global malting company with a 3 million tonnes production capacity. The group is present on 5 continents with 27 malting plants. Boortmalt's expertise is widely acknowledged by brewers, distillers, and food industries, who rely on the supply of top-quality barley malts.