Process Technician in Paignton

Joining in one of our more senior production positions within our structure, as Processing Technician, you will operate and optimise complex machines or processing equipment, ensuring we maintain the highest standards of product quality. Working for a family owned business that is passionate about making fantastic, wholesome products, you will be an important part of the team helping to ensure our equipment and machinery on site is running as well as it possibly can.

With your operational and mechanical skills and knowledge, you will be the go-to person for all in the team that need support with complex operational processes and identifying root causes of underlying problems. Through maintenance tasks and validation checks, you will help the team meet their daily Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) with optimal utilisation of assets and raw materials.

• Effectively operating and optimising equipment and priorities to meet the production demand and delivery of our products.
• Owning performance and yield in your area/asset, optimising running conditions and leading the mechanical improvement activities that ensure effective use of resources.
• Analysing and interpreting operational machine parameters to support decision making and drive improvements.
• Ensuring the accurate and timely recording of downtime and raw material usage in an area.
• Undertaking advanced/complex fault finding, decision making and rectifying of equipment and leading the identification of root cause, escalating to engineering when required.
• Ensuring all equipment is properly cared for by the completion of effective cleaning and maintenance tasks.
• Working across the team and ensuring there are effective handovers to understand common challenges and opportunities seeking to identify where investigations may help most.
• Training and validating understanding to the highest standard, coaching and mentoring others to build capability.

• Knowledge of SCADA IFX
• Good team working and effective communication skills
• Level 3 HACCP & IOSH

• Working Knowledge of IT, Word, Excel & Office
• Attention to detail and good understanding of food processing parameters

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 offer a whole host of benefits including:

• Competitive holiday allowance
• Non-contributory pension scheme
• Life cover
• Healthcare cash back plan
• Employee Benefit Trust performance related bonus
• Free parking
• Colleagues in the Community
• 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.