Utility Operative

**Location**:Northallerton, North Yorkshire, UK

**Shift**:Rotating - Week 1 Monday to Friday 06:00 - 14:00, Week 2 - Monday to Friday 12:00 - 20:00. And alternative Saturdays 06:00 - 16:00

Have you got experience of working in a production, 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, join us now

As a Utility Operative you will be part of a shift teamworking across our control room and 2 press production lines making high quality animal feed. You will be in the Mill at your designated area and will have overall responsibility for the running of the press lines as well as cleaning of the station.

**Other responsibilities include**:

- Ensuring quality and feed safety is a priority during production
- Completion of daily production plan following KPI’s/targets
- General Mill cleaning - hovering, mopping and general hygiene
- Providing accurate information to wider teams on raw material and stock to ensure deliveries and ordering are planned effectively including supporting with stock takes
- Support maintenance teams to communicate any issues and basic maintenance duties
- Wider support for overall mill success supporting with projects or ad hoc work as part of the wider Mill team

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.

**To be successful we are looking for some of the following knowledge, skills and experience**:

- Previous experience in production environment ideally food or agriculture
- Previous experience of working with automated plant machinery
- Ability to be multi-skilled and flexible to support the needs of the Mill
- Computer literate with ability to learn new systems with experience of MS Office such as teams and excel
- Happy to work in a noisy, dusty and warm environment

**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.

**What we can offer you**
- A competitive salary with annual review.
- Incentive bonus for everyone
- Matched employer pension contribution up to 10%.
- Enhanced benefit for holiday, family, carer, adoption and parental leave.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- AB Agri benefits portal offering discounts and vouchers at 100s of retailers.
- Discounts available on ABF sister company products.
- A company passionate about training, development and creating a truly inclusive culture where everyone can do their best work.
- A wide range of flexible, opt-in benefits including dental, private medical and personal travel insurance using salary sacrifice.

**About us**

ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division 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.

**Application Notes**

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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