Utility Operator

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Utility Operator

Location: Cupar

Contract type and shift: 48 hours, Monday - Friday WK 1 Tuesday - Saturday WK 2

Salary: £32,531.91

At ABN, we have a common set of inspirational behaviours that we all try to live day in, day out. Our Winning Ways of Responsible, Inquisitive, Brave and Inclusive will help us deliver our ambitious goals.

What you'll be doing:

• Carry out a range of tasks in support of the milling operation and process which including raw material intake, bulk out loading, additives preparation and hygiene. Maximise efficiency, service and feed consistency while ensuring that feed safety and health and safety standards are never compromised.
• • Weigh and load finished product lorries with the correct feed types while carrying out a range of quality checks
  • Ensure that hygiene levels in the mill are maintained to the required standards
  • Weigh raw material vehicles in and out of site, carry out required quality checks and ensure materials are routed to the correct storage locations.
  • Carry out the preparation and supply of hand-tip additions for blending.
  • Ensure that the achievement of food safety is always a priority
  • Awareness of the requirement of the UFAS standards and to assist in enabling the company to exceed the standards required.
  • Adhere to all site and Company health and Safety regulations.
  • Follow a site hygiene improvement action plan
  • Perform stock check activities as required.

What you'll bring:

• • Prior experience in food/agricultural/production environments
• • Working with automated plant machinery
  • Feed Mill production experience
  • Prioritisation skills
  • PC Skills
• • Responds positively to changing business priorities
  • Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment
  • Keeps their head whilst others lose theirs.
  • Innovative
  • Highly Organised
  • Resilient

Where growth meets purpose

What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together, we’re shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.

We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

About The Company

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.