Site Maintenance Hygiene Operative

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 to 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. 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. 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. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us! 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.