Yard Co-ordinator

**About the Role**:
**Start your career with Avara Foods and join the driving force behind our success**

**What’s in it for you?**
- £12.57 per hour (paid weekly)
- Guaranteed hours and opportunities for overtime
- Employee benefits include a competitive pension and access to lifestyle and wellbeing resources
- A safe dynamic working environment
- Training and development opportunities from day one

**Working Hours**:08.00 - 18.00 Mon - Fri

**Purpose of the role**

Working closely with the management team to ensure the mill site is clean, tidy, safe and compliant with industry/customer standards. Providing effective cover of the weighbridge/Intake and carrying out other general daily duties to ensure the efficient running of the mill operation.

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**Key responsibilities will include**:

- Cleaning and monitoring of external mill areas using a broom/shovel, pressure washer as required to keep external areas clean and clear of debris/dust and spillages.
- Alerting the management team to any issues or areas of concern
- Operation of the weighbridge on Thursdays and Fridays
- Operating the weighbridge to cover breaks and annual leave.
- Working closely with the raw material co-ordinator to manage incoming loads and assist with unloading of palletised deliveries as required using a forklift truck.
- Working in adherence to all health and safety standards
- Provide secondary cover to the intake and Weighbridge operatives.
- Helping to obtain and process finished feed and raw material samples for analysis
- Working on own recognisance to manage workload to achieve the above

**What we are looking for**:

- Good level of English and basic numeracy skills, and computer literate
- The ability to work well within a team and communicate effectively
- Good attention to detail and a flexible attitude to tasks
- Forklift counterbalance licence ( desirable)
- Experience within a production/agriculture environment is desirable but not essential as full training will be provided

**A little about us**:

- We are a leading supplier of chicken, turkey and duck products into an impressive range of customers in the UK retail and food service sectors. We are a fully integrated business controlling the whole product supply chain, which include feed mills, farms, hatcheries and factories with associated transport and logistics functions that employ more than 6000 people.**What’s in for you?**
- As a valued member of our Operational team you will enjoy a secure, supportive and progressive working environment, where your contribution and achievements will be recognized and rewarded.- **Due to Bird Welfare, it is essential that you do not own any Avian Pets or Poultry.**

**We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer.