Multi Skilled Operator - Logistics Days (INTERNAL ONLY) in Highbridge

At Yeo Valley, we are passionate about nurturing and nourishing people and the planet by making great food the right way, forever. We are on the lookout for a reliable Multi Skilled Logistics Operative to join our busy distribution team at Isleport, Somerset. This is a fantastic role for someone who enjoys working in a fast‑moving warehouse environment and has solid hands‑on experience operating Reach Trucks, Counterbalance Forklifts and other Material Handling Equipment (MHE).

Your Responsibilities

• Demonstrating a commitment to Health & Safety by working in a safe manner, role‑modeling our safety behaviours, challenging unsafe practices, rectifying unsafe conditions and escalating to other team members when support is needed.
• Active involvement, commitment and governance of the quality management system, ensuring all relevant controls and procedures are completed effectively to validate food safety controls and the products we make exceed customer and consumer expectations.
• Escalate any food safety breach or quality issue and ensure that any product below our standards is identified and held, with issues escalated appropriately, resolved and released.
• Understand, adhere to and lead good manufacturing practices and company standards of hygiene, PPE, and dress code.
• Role models a 'Clean as You Go' approach, maintaining workplace organisation and visual management standards with the team.
• Effective operation and optimisation of equipment and priorities to meet production demand and deliver the highest quality of products.
• Through ownership of performance and yield in your area/asset, optimise running conditions and actively participate in improvement activities that ensure effective use of resources.
• Ownership of changeover activities and material replenishment in your area/asset, optimising resources and raw material yields.
• Analysis and interpretation of operational machine parameters to support effective decision making and drive improvements.
• Ensuring accurate and timely recording of downtime and raw material usage in an area.
• Undertaking basic fault finding and rectification on equipment and actively support the identification of root cause when escalating to the wider support team when required.
• Ensuring all equipment is properly cared for by completing effective cleaning and basic maintenance tasks.
• Making decisions to support improvement to area KPIs and recommending continual improvement to equipment or processes with the Lead Operator or Line Manager.
• Energising the team and demonstrating a consistently enthusiastic approach, taking action quickly and encouraging others to do the same.

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
• FMCG experience

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
• 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.