Yard Co-ordinator

**About the Role**:**
Start your career with Avara Foods and join the driving force behind our success and earn a minimum of £540 per week.**

**What’s in it for you?**:

- £12.07 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

As one of the UK's largest food businesses, we are playing a critical role in keeping the nation fed. We are continuing to operate and are looking for motivated people to join our team as a Yard Co-Ordinator at our Feed Mill in Westbury, Wiltshire. With ambitious growth plans, we are continually investing in our facilities and our people, with opportunities to develop and build your career with us.

**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 and carrying out other general daily duties to ensure the efficient running of the mill operation.

**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 operative
- Manual handling (loads up to 25kg)
- 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

**Working Hours: 07.00 - 17.00 Mon - Fri (45 hours)**

**A little about us**:
Avara Foods supply chicken and turkey to the nation’s most popular supermarkets and restaurants. 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 7000 people.

All our facilities are Covid secure, with protective measures and precautions in place to keep our people safe:

- Daily temperature screening
- Social distancing measures - including floor markers and 2m separation where possible
- Screens and barriers installed at workstations and canteens
- PPE and face coverings required in all shared spaces
- Additional facilities and amenities to reduce congestion
- Increased cleaning regimes across sites

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.