Hygiene & Hand Stacking Operator, Arla Foods Ingredients - Taw Valley
Location: Devon, GB
We’re one of the world’s biggest dairy producers. Join our team in production making world class permeate powder, and you'll contribute to making food that is loved by millions.
AFI Taw Valley produces 18000 tons of permeate powder and 4000 tons of whey protein concentrate using membrane, evaporator and drying technology. Our customers use the products as ingredients in foods and dry blend products, and therefore have high demands for quality, hygiene and food safety standards.
Create the future
By ensuring that our products can be accurately delivered to our customers on time. You will be part of a high-performance team both delivering and supporting other functions to meet challenging team and personal goals.
The hygiene and hand stacking operator role will involve a shift pattern of 4 days on 4 days off shift basis (days only, 06:00-18:00). 26.5 days holiday per year.
The role’s main responsibilities will be:
1. Stacking of 25kg bags using a vacuum lifter to prepare & dispatch pallets of demineralized ‘dry blend’ permeate powder to the expected quality standards, ensuring department KPIs are met.
2. As a Hygiene Operator, you will work to a cleaning schedule to ensure our high care areas meet strict standards of hygiene at all times.
3. Perform scheduled daily cleaning tasks, but also use own initiative to raise and complete additional cleaning tasks to strive for continuous improvement of standards.
4. Record & Report Process Deviations to the Team Leader, especially relating to hygiene standards.
5. Make suggestions on how hygiene standards can be improved by engineering out common deviations.
6. Work with engineering and other members of the team to reduce lost time due to breakdowns.
7. Contribute to daily review meetings, problem solving and other CI activities in order to drive improvement.
8. Maintain a safe working environment by raising near misses, risk observations, environmental observations and behavioral safety observations.
9. Contribute to completion of risk assessments and standard operating procedures.
10. Complete mandatory and job required training courses so that skills are kept up to date.
11. Deliver Objectives in Dialogue.
12. Ensure a pleasant working environment for self and others.
Essential job required training:
* Use of vacuum lifter
* Automated floor scrubber
* Food Safety level 2 with HACCP.
* Daily log sheet completion
* Standard operating procedures
Preferred/optional training:
* Fork lift truck training (counter balance)
* First aid
* Ability to self-motivate and take responsibility for own tasks.
* Ability to work in an organized and methodical manner, following company procedures.
* Ability to work in a fast paced environment towards production requirements.
* Key safe behaviors, see it, sort it, report it.
* Good communication skills and able to form good working relationships.
* Good numeracy and literacy.
Requirements:
* Own transport preferred due to location of site.
We have a purpose for Good
At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?
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