Skilled Operator - Savoury Days

We are looking for Production Operatives to join our Crewkerne site, in our dedicated Savories production facility producing our Yeo Valley soup lines. This role is a shift pattern of 4 days on 4 days off, working 6am to 6pm.

You must be happy to work in a fast-paced production environment. Full training is provided, although if you have worked in food manufacturing before, that would be an advantage. There is scope to increase hourly pay once further training has been completed.

Key Responsibilities Will Include

• Working in a fast-paced production area

• Preparing ingredients for production

• Assisting with the production and packing of food products

• Carrying out hygiene and general cleaning duties as required

• Accurately completing production records

• Manual handling

• Operating MHE

• Preparing the ingredients, cooking the soup as per recipe or running the filler

• Excellent communication skills

• Good numeracy and literacy skills

• Ability to work in a physically demanding role

• A personal commitment to maintaining the highest safety & hygiene standards

• Highly engaged, a good team player

• An ability to work unsupervised

• Able to follow instructions and procedures

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.

Benefits We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer. It goes without saying that you'll have access to free parking, top of the range personal protection equipment (PPE) and your own locker. You'll also receive the following:

• 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 .