Production Operative

**Job Title**: Production Operator

**Salary**:£10.00 ph

**Location**: Billingshurst

**Shift Patter**:Mon -Thurs 6.45am to 2.45pm - Fri 6.45am 1.45pm

Mon -Thurs 14.30pm to 22.30pm - Fri 13.30pm to 20.30pm

**The Role**

To undertake manufacturing activities as designated by line management, including co-ordinating all associated operations and personnel as instructed.

**Key Duties**
- To operate in a safe manner, being aware of your own safety and the safety of others.
- To comply with instructions as issued in the health and safety, fire and quality procedures.
- To help ensure that all physical areas of responsibility and machines are safe for personnel and that correct standards of safety, quality, housekeeping and hygiene are communicated and maintained.
- To check (by personal inspection and from production data) that all products are produced within the defined limits of quality, quantity and efficiency.
- To ensure that all line documentation and sampling systems are being completed correctly.
- To be responsible for ensuring that good manufacturing practices are observed at all times.
- To be responsible for the timely completion of product changeovers and line component clean down operations.
- To advise your line management or the Engineering department of any issues concerning the general performance, maintenance or accuracy or speed of filling of a machine.
- To ensure to the best of your ability that production lines operated start and finish at the correct times.
- To ensure that the operated production line is running at the speed as defined by the daily production plan, and to immediately report any problem that prevents this.
- Carry out basic machine maintenance tasks as instructed by the Production Supervisor or Engineering department.
- To monitor and reduce wastage, rejects, stock discrepancies, and to be responsible for the reconciliation yields.
- To advise line management of any concerns relating to the performance and behaviour of any agency personnel working on the line, e.g. poor timekeeping or work performance.
- To receive and give new and refresher training activities as required.
- To liaise effectively with all other team members within the company.
- To carry out any ad hoc duties as reasonably requested by line management, Engineering Manager or Production Manager

**Experience and Qualifications**

**Essential**:

- Highly literate. Good level of conversational and written English.
- Highly numerate.
- Experience operating and changing over production machinery.

**Preferred**:

- GMP/FMCG experience.
- Experience in similar production environment (pharmaceutical/food manufacture etc.).
- Knowledge of working to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Experience of PTK tablet presses.
- Experience of Siebler/Romaco packing lines.
- Experience of completing traceability paperwork. Packing or assembling in a fast-moving environment.

**Person Profile**
- Proactive
- Self motivated
- Hard working
- Able to work with a sense of urgency

**Training**

You will be given an induction on the first day.

**Our Service**

We offer a personal service tailored specifically to your needs; we are proactive to find opportunities. We are friendly, honest and always strive to exceed your service expectations.

**Referral Scheme