Advanced Production Operative

**Job Role**: Advanced Production Operative

**Salary**: £27,001.32

Refresco, the world’s largest independent soft drinks manufacturer are recruiting **Advanced Production Operatives **for our **Nelson** Site. You will play an important role in making sure some of the best-known drink’s brands in the UK are manufactured to the right quality and delivered on time to our many customers. Refresco is always changing, always innovating, always growing, creating endless opportunities for you to develop and grow your career with us in the future.

**About the Role**

You will be part of a supportive team, led by Operations Manager working with colleagues who will help you settle in, find your way around and show you the ropes.

As Advanced Production Operative your main tasks and duties will be:

- Operate standard machinery at a basic level - full training provided.
- Ensure the effective running of production and packaging lines.
- Complete quality checks and record results, reporting any non-conformances.
- Work as part of a team to ensure the site is audit-ready at all times.
- Contribute to meeting team and company-wide production targets, which make a real difference to our business and our customers.

**Salary and Benefits**

You will be paid annual salary of £27,001.32. Your shift pattern will be continental shift pattern working 12-hour shifts (6.00 - 18.00 & 18.00 - 6.00) on a two-week rotation of days and nights with every other weekend off.
In addition, you will have 2 x your annual base salary life assurance, a good company pension scheme, a sports and social fund and free on-site car parking.

**About You**

You are going to be part of the Refresco team at Refresco, Nelson so it’s important you work and communicate well with your colleagues, support them when needed, take time to understand what they do, and learn how we all contribute to achieving our goals.

For the role of Advanced Production Operative, you will have previous experience of working within a Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturing environment, you will be accurate in your daily tasks and duties, paying great attention to detail and open to learn new things as you can be involved in basic engineering and quality tasks. It would be advantageous to have Counterbalance and or Reach truck licence.

The Refresco Values are what has made us successful and will help us and you grow in the future. If you follow the Refresco Values, you can’t go wrong

**About Refresco**

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're passionate about producing tasty, refreshing drinks but we’re thirsty for more and growing fast. We’re a global business and have invested heavily to expand our manufacturing footprint to make us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 12 billion litres from nearly 80 manufacturing plants in 13 countries and we’re only just getting started

Our UK Business has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1800 employees producing own label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading UK supermarkets. We also manufacture many of the best-known branded drink’s such as Monster Energy, Innocent, Ocean Spray and Vimto. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles, or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards and are on the customer tables for every occasion
- **We’re an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind.**_

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £27,001.32 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift

**Experience**:

- machine minder: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Forklift licence (preferred)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: One location