So, what will I be doing?
As a Lead member of the team, you will be supporting the production or supply chain team on our Blagdon site. You will be based in the planning, coordination, and optimisation of all resources in a defined area of work. You will be the go-to person in the team for support; using your coordination skills, you will ensure operational activities are completed and the highest standards of safety, product quality, and service levels are delivered to enable the whole team to deliver our fantastic products to our customers.
This Role is a Nights base role on a 4 on 4 off shift pattern working the hours of 1800 - 0600.
Working with the teams in an area and the wider site team, you will ensure that the team can work productively and effectively. Through the coordination of resources across multiple assets and completing performance improvement meetings on the lines, you will ensure optimal utilisation of our assets and the optimal use of raw materials.
Key responsibilities:
Demonstrating 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.
Leading the active involvement of the teams in all Health & Safety aspects of their work to support the ongoing improvement to safety practices.
Escalating any food safety breach or quality issue and ensuring that any product below our standards is identified, 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.
Understanding, leading, and maintaining good manufacturing practices and company standards of hygiene, PPE, and dress code.
Role models a 'Clean as You Go' approach, leading workplace organisation and visual management standards with the team.
With support from and working with the Technical team, understand audit non-conformances and consumer complaints and work together to manage communications with the team, putting in place actions to prevent reoccurrence.
Leading the facilitation of Short Interval Control Reviews, establishing actions and owners for the ongoing improvements and coordination of tasks and resources to optimise the operation.
Analyses and interprets asset performance to establish areas of opportunity and initiates the necessary support to drive improvements to performance and raw material yields.
Active involvement in changeover optimisation with the team, identifying areas of opportunity and resource coordination that improve asset utilisation.
Communicates and shares performance data and ensures team awareness and connection of how their role contributes to the success of the shift, site, and business.
Maintains the accurate and timely recording of downtime and raw material usage across the area in support of focused improvement initiatives.
Undertakes basic fault finding and rectification on equipment and actively supports the identification of root causes when escalating to the wider support team when required.
Ensures all equipment is properly cared for through the layered validation of the cleaning tasks and the compliance to the schedule.
Trains and validates understanding to the highest standard, coaching and mentoring others to build capability.
Collates, suggests, initiates, and implements improvement activities within own team and outside of the team across all shifts.
Works across the team and effective handovers to understand common challenges and opportunities seeking to identify where investigations may help most.
Energises the team and demonstrates a consistently enthusiastic approach, taking action quickly and encouraging others to do the same.
In addition to this, if you apply between now and 20th December, you will receive a joining bonus of £500 on being employed on a full-time, permanent basis.
The joining bonus is paid in 2 instalments £250 following your 12-week probation period and £250 at 6 months service. Terms and conditions apply.
Sounds interesting, what do I need?
Essential:
Good team working skills
Able to undertake manual tasks
Attention to detail
Effective communication
Desirable:
Basic food hygiene
Knowledge of HACCP
Relevant work experience as a machine Operator in a production environment
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 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.
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