Career Opportunities: Production Operative - D Shift (42160)
Position Title: Production Operative - D Shift
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 42160
Job Title: Production Operative
Department: Manufacturing
Reports to: Shift Manager/Team Leader
Location: Wombourne
Overall Purpose
To effectively and efficiently operate machinery ensuring area performance is optimised and in line with business requirements, Quality and Food Safety.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Operating production machines to deliver production targets, whilst ensuring that all OEE, HS&E and quality targets and standards are met.
- Compliance with all company policies, management procedures, systems of work and standard operating procedures.
- Respond pro-actively to hour-by-hour variances to support “abnormality management”.
- Support the area SQDC process, ensuring that hourly performance boards are updated; any issues are highlighted promptly with appropriate escalation at all times.
- Work towards and support achievement of plant-wide ‘multi-skilled’ status, to include assistance of training new operatives in the area and cover in other roles when appropriate training has been given.
- Support the immediate solving of work problems, and participate where necessary in the work of the wider production team.
- To ensure that you are working to the company code of conduct and upholding Company Standards at all times, including but not limited to HSE, Food Safety, 5’s & SAP.
- To be accountable for your personal safety and others who may be affected by the company’s activities.
- Adhere to the company food safety and quality policy, establishing practices to maintain a Food Safety and Quality focused mind-set that holds both yourself and others to account for those standards.
- Promoting and enforcing behaviours and actions that will prevent all contamination threats to products whether physical, microbial or chemical.
- Actively contribute to a continuous improvement culture.
- Carry out any reasonable additional duties as and when requested.
Person Specification
Experience
- Previous experience in a production/packing operative role (Desirable)
- Operator asset care / maintenance (Desirable)
Knowledge
- Working from set procedures, making minor decisions using own judgements (Essential)
- Understanding and interpreting KPI’s (Desirable)
- Understanding of AIB and GMP standards and audits (Desirable)
- Continuous Improvement principles and practices including 5’s, SQDCPE (Desirable)
- SAP shop floor processes (Desirable)
Skills
- Able to remain focused in a busy and demanding environment (Essential)
- Good communication skills (Essential)
- Basic Numeracy and Literacy and Strong computer competence (Essential)
- Analytical thinker / problem solving skills (Essential)
- Ability to work on own initiative or as part of a team (Essential)
- Mechanical aptitude (Essential)
- Display drive / quality focus (Essential)
- Ability to undertake further development training (Essential)
- Possess a Fork Lift Truck driver’s license (Desirable)
The shift pattern is 2 days 6am-6pm, 1 day off, 2 nights 6pm-6am followed by 3 days off.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Manufacturing
Division: GB Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Department: PRODUCTION GROUP D
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Whittlesey
Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd
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Position Title: Production Operative - D Shift
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 42160
Job Title: Production Operative
Department: Manufacturing
Reports to: Shift Manager/Team Leader
Location: Wombourne
Overall Purpose
To effectively and efficiently operate machinery ensuring area performance is optimised and in line with business requirements, Quality and Food Safety.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Operating production machines to deliver production targets, whilst ensuring that all OEE, HS&E and quality targets and standards are met.
- Compliance with all company policies, management procedures, systems of work and standard operating procedures.
- Respond pro-actively to hour-by-hour variances to support “abnormality management”.
- Support the area SQDC process, ensuring that hourly performance boards are updated; any issues are highlighted promptly with appropriate escalation at all times.
- Work towards and support achievement of plant-wide ‘multi-skilled’ status, to include assistance of training new operatives in the area and cover in other roles when appropriate training has been given.
- Support the immediate solving of work problems, and participate where necessary in the work of the wider production team.
- To ensure that you are working to the company code of conduct and upholding Company Standards at all times, including but not limited to HSE, Food Safety, 5’s & SAP.
- To be accountable for your personal safety and others who may be affected by the company’s activities.
- Adhere to the company food safety and quality policy, establishing practices to maintain a Food Safety and Quality focused mind-set that holds both yourself and others to account for those standards.
- Promoting and enforcing behaviours and actions that will prevent all contamination threats to products whether physical, microbial or chemical.
- Actively contribute to a continuous improvement culture.
- Carry out any reasonable additional duties as and when requested.
Person Specification
Experience
- Previous experience in a production/packing operative role (Desirable)
- Operator asset care / maintenance (Desirable)
Knowledge
- Working from set procedures, making minor decisions using own judgements (Essential)
- Understanding and interpreting KPI’s (Desirable)
- Understanding of AIB and GMP standards and audits (Desirable)
- Continuous Improvement principles and practices including 5’s, SQDCPE (Desirable)
- SAP shop floor processes (Desirable)
Skills
- Able to remain focused in a busy and demanding environment (Essential)
- Good communication skills (Essential)
- Basic Numeracy and Literacy and Strong computer competence (Essential)
- Analytical thinker / problem solving skills (Essential)
- Ability to work on own initiative or as part of a team (Essential)
- Mechanical aptitude (Essential)
- Display drive / quality focus (Essential)
- Ability to undertake further development training (Essential)
- Possess a Fork Lift Truck driver’s license (Desirable)
The shift pattern is 2 days 6am-6pm, 1 day off, 2 nights 6pm-6am followed by 3 days off.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Manufacturing
Division: GB Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Department: PRODUCTION GROUP D
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Whittlesey
Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd