Weighbridge Operator

Job Title:  Weighbridge / Intake Operator 

Location:  Enstone (West Oxfordshire)

Hours of work:  Monday to Friday 7:00 - 16:30

Have you got experience of working in a production, manufacturing, feed mill or agricultural/farming environment and looking for an opportunity to join a small team as part of a bigger well-established business? If so, we have a great opportunity for you

The role of Weighbridge / Intake Operator is ensure that the raw material vehicles are weighed in and out of site, quality checks are performed on all loads, and raw materials are routed to the correct storage locations.
Record and monitor the stocks of bulk raw materials and liaise with the central Raw Material planning Team  regarding stock movements.

What you'll be doing:

• Operate weighbridge to ensure all vehicle weights are recorded.
• Carry out raw material sampling and action non-conformances where required.
• Check and record previous load history of vehicles.
• Perform stock check activities as required.
• Ensure visiting hauliers maintain cleanliness of intake and yard areas.
• Log raw material and finished product samples into AX business system and despatch for testing.
• Maintain any written or computer records required of the job by ABN or UFAS operating procedures.
• Maintain your allocated work area to a hygiene standard acceptable to UFAS and participate in general cleaning tasks during the shift or when required to do so.
• Carrying out various reasonable tasks, for example painting, assisting with maintenance work, ripping & tipping, emptying tote bins and stock taking.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience working in a manufacturing / production environment.  Food or agricultural site beneficial.
• A proactive, positive attitude
• Attention to detail
• Good people & communication skills
• Basic IT skills
• A team player

This is a great opportunity for someone who likes a varied role where you can get your hands dirty and be part of a small friendly team where everyone can get stuck in to get the job done. You will contribute to the success of the business by ensuring that the mill performs at its best allowing production targets to be met.

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

We’re AB Agri part 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.  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 building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture. 

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.

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.