Machine Minder

As a Level 3 Production Operative you will be responsible for supporting production activity, maximising line performance and creating and monitoring operating procedures. You will also ensure 100% compliance and “right first time”, promoting best operational practice and validate the processes and equipment. You will conduct training and ensure training compliance using available resources, and provide support and expertise to all departments with a view to maximising performance, as well as any other duties as instructed by senior management.

**About The Role**

Level 3 Production Operatives will work to high, demanding standards. They will be responsible for delivering performance through processes and machinery, ensuring safe and cost-effective practices are adopted. They will also share their specialist knowledge with others to continuously improve efficiencies.

**PRODUCE PRODUCT TO THE REQUIRED STANDARDS OF QUALITY AND HYGIENE WHILE MAINTAINING LINE EFFICIENCY. THE PRODUCTION OPERATIVE WILL**:

- Be expert in the machinery and production line operation.
- Validate the equipment & process, taking required action to close any performance gaps.
- Document and monitor line performance carrying out any equipment or product tests required to validate the process and equipment.
- Work in all areas of the production facility, identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Define production standard settings in conjunction with Production Management, ensure production machinery is operated to standard settings and maintain and standardise documentation
- Ensure teams skills are up to date, train individuals online as required and liaise with relevant department to organise offline training. Coaching in the moment.
- Holiday/absence cover for Team Leader where appropriate.
- Undertake qualification to be able to perform and validate tasks to support equipment performance and reliability.
- Maintain machinery to a level commensurate with their role.
- Hourly reviews at performance boards and ownership of efficiency issues.
- Ensure that all work undertaken is carried out to the standard required by the Production Team Leader, that all appropriate safety legislation is observed and report any potentially unsafe working methods, installations or equipment.
- Record and communicate hazards, risks and near misses
- Maintain a clean and tidy working environment.
- Take responsibility for performance and decisions, promote ownership of performance.
- Challenge constructively existing ideas and practices, use data to improve efficiency.
- Effective communications between cross functional teams and successful shift handovers
- Assisting the creation of method statements and risk assessments.
- Actively participate in team meetings and find solutions to issues raised
- Ensure adherence to all business processes and procedures that actively drive improvements that eliminate waste in the processes.
- Support Project implementations
- Give constructive feedback in a way that drives performance and encourages commitment to achieving targets
- Support other sites within the Albert Bartlett Company
- Support Production team in weekly hygiene activity.

**Required Criteria**
- Numeracy and Literacy skills
- Good IT Skills excel, word and PowerPoint
- Food hygiene training to level 2 Effective time management skills

**Desired Criteria**
- Experience within an FMCG environment
- Experience of operating High speed food processing and packing equipment

**Skills Needed**

Production Operations, Teamwork

**About The Company**

Our story began in 1948, when Albert Bartlett started our family tradition of selling good-quality produce by setting up a beetroot-boiling operation in Coatbridge, Scotland. Nine years later, Albert’s experience and expertise helped him grow the business, and along with his two sons, Jimmy and Alex, he found a new home for their flourishing company in Airdrie, Scotland.

On that very same site, we made history when we became the first factory in Britain to pre-pack carrots in a plastic bag. Over the years, our expanding business has stayed true to Albert’s spirit of innovation and passion for quality, and we’ve built on our experience. Today, we proudly supply potatoes from our network of farmers and growers across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Jersey.

**Company Culture**

Over 70 years since Albert started the business, we remain proudly independent and the fourth generation of the Bartlett family is now working in the company.

Our headquarters are in Airdrie, only four miles or so from our founder’s original business. We want Albert Bartlett to be a world famous household brand, renowned for quality and expertise in own label and branded potatoes and potato products.

We aim to be an innovative and improving company that exceeds our customers’ expectations while operating in an environmentally responsible and sustainable way. We can only achieve this by investing in the best peop