Blending / Mixer Operator

Job Description - **BLENDING / MIXING OPERATOR**

The Blending / Mixing Operator will work within a small team to select and blend specific ingredients to prepare a range of spice products according to our strict recipes and quality specifications as per our procedures and as instructed by the Team Leader and / or Manager.

1. SHE (Safety, Health & Environment).

Our #1 priority is the Health and Safety of our staff, all visitors to our site and of course our customers and to our environment.

Everything we do must have SHE in mind including every aspect of our operations, our storage, our waste disposal but most importantly our people.

Your responsibility is to always act in a safe manner, follow the SHE rules of the company, and to ensure that nothing you do, or don’t do, causes a SHE incident for anyone else.

2. Hygiene

As a quality food manufacturer, effective hygiene procedures and processes are vitally important to maintain the highest food safety standards and so we operate a CAYGO (clean as you go) policy within the factory before each production run, in between each production run and at the end of each day.

Your responsibility is to keep you own work area meticulously clean and tidy and to help others in the team to do so as well.

3. Quality

To maintain the high standards of quality that our customers expect we work to exacting standards of quality which our Quality department rigorously enforce and guide the whole team.

It is your responsibility, and vitally important, for you to record all activities and to follow the guidance and instructions of our Quality Team.

4. Efficiency

Every aspect of our operation and our production equipment needs to be kept running continuously to ensure the future profitability of the company but in particular, the filling machines, they are the heartbeat of the operation with all the activity before and after filling kept running at a higher speed to keep the fillers running.

It is your responsibility to work with the team to do whatever is required to keep the production operation running.

5. Cost Control

To maintain a profitable business it is important that every aspect of the operation minimises wastage, including time, raw materials, and packaging.

It is your responsibility to maximise operational time, to control batch weights of ingredients used and to minimise any wastage of product or packaging.

6. Teamworking

We work better when we work with our colleagues and for each other making our workplace safe and clean and efficient and ultimately, we all work in a successful business.

It is your responsibility to work with, and co-operate at all times, with your colleagues, the Team Leaders, Supervisors and Managers and to feel free to raise issues and submit suggestions for the benefit of all.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From £11.44 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Food manufacturing: 1 year (preferred)

**Language**:

- English (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: JD - World of Spice