Senior Pilot Plant Operator (12 fixed term contract)
Location: York, North Yorkshire
Salary up to £35,000 per annum (depending on experience) + Potential bonus + Pension + Healthcare + 25 days holiday + 12 day flex leave + Other fantastic benefits
Days Based Role (Monday - Friday)
Position Summary
Nestlé Product Technology Centre - Confectionery (NPTC) are currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Pilot Plant Operator to join the team at our York Research and Development Centre. As a Senior Pilot Plant Operator you will be a key team member working in our state of the art experimental pilot plant and logistics team and occasionally on other Nestlé sites both in the UK and abroad.
A day in the life of a Senior Pilot Plant Operator
As a Senior Pilot Plant Operator, you will be responsible for:
1. Planning, execution, and follow-up of operational tasks in R&D.
2. Working closely with specialists, project managers and experts on planning, carrying out, and following up on trials/tests in relation to innovation and renovation of products/processes/systems following relevant tools and programs.
3. Building operational knowledge within your own field, contributing to the knowledge building and sharing in R&D, and participating in technical assistance and manufacturing support.
4. Coaching and training less experienced colleagues.
5. Ensuring a safe workplace through reviewing and preparing risk assessments, standard operating procedures and ensuring quality standards are always followed.
6. As End-to-End trial lead, assisting project leaders in designing and conducting pilot plant and factory trials, which involves the preparation and provision of raw materials and equipment, ensuring the trials are carried out safely, providing troubleshooting assistance when needed and ensuring the trial outputs are delivered to the relevant stakeholders / locations.
7. Managing compliance documentation related to your area of responsibility and participating in LEAN and structured problem-solving initiatives.
8. Supporting the continual development of knowledge enhancements across a wide range of stakeholders, developing capability and driving best in class.
What will make you successful?
To be successful in this role you will be passionate, proactive and results-focused acting as an ambassador for the Nestlé Confectionery brands. You should demonstrate your ability to influence across all levels, as well as know when to flex your style whilst working in an environment that can be, at times, ambiguous.
You may have production experience, R&D experience or be a recent graduate looking for your next steps outside of university.
You will also have:
1. Significant and in-depth practical experience within your areas of specialism e.g. factory experience, being part of operational teams.
2. Experience of End-to-End management of trials/tests.
3. Up-to-date knowledge of quality, safety, hygiene, and environment requirements.
4. Proven experience of R&D and/or operating/factory experience in the product category.
5. Significant exposure in different project and support activities of the organisation.
6. Led initiatives within projects successfully.
7. Demonstrated continuous initiative and continuous improvement.
What You Need To Know
What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.
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