Technical Operator - Days in Cannington

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. Y 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 a4on 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

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

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

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.

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