Technical Operator - Nights

Yeo Valley is not just a dairy manufacturing company; we are the manufacturing company that produces over 25% of the UK's packaged yoghurt, known for our commitment to organic farming, sustainability, and animal welfare. We are looking for a Technical Operator to join our Nights team at Newton Abbot. This role will be 4 nights on, 4 nights off, working from 18:00 to 6:00.

As the Technical Operator, you will utilise your operational and mechanical skills and knowledge, being the go-to person for all in the team that need support with complex operational processes, optimising complex machines, or identifying the root cause of underlying problems. Through the undertaking of maintenance tasks, validation checks, and optimisation of the machines, you will ensure the team can meet their daily Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with optimal utilisation of our assets and raw materials.

Your responsibilities:

• 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, with issues escalated appropriately, resolved, and released.
• 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 exceed customer and consumer expectations.
• Understand, adhere to, and lead good manufacturing practices and company standards of hygiene, PPE, and dress code.
• Role model a 'Clean as You Go' approach, leading 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 products.
• Undertake advanced/complex fault finding, decision making, and rectification on equipment, leading the identification of root cause and escalating to engineering when required.
• Ensure all equipment is properly cared for by completing effective cleaning and maintenance tasks.
• Work across the team and conduct effective handovers to understand common challenges and opportunities, seeking to identify where investigations may help most.
• Energise the team and demonstrate a consistently enthusiastic approach, taking action quickly and encouraging others to do the same.

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 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. We recommend you get your application in straight away – 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 does not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers submitted via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.