Sack Plant Operator

Crisp Malt is one of Europe’s leading suppliers of malted barley and specialty malted cereals to the world’s brewing, distilling and food industries.

And since 1870 we’ve been making malted Barley for brewers and distillers all over the world from our home maltings in Norfolk. Today, we continue that in 4 countries, across 7 Maltings with specific emphasis on supplying distilleries and craft breweries.

We have an exciting opportunity at our Gt Ryburgh Crisp Malt site for a Sack Plant Operator to join our team.

Reporting to the Dry Goods Manager and Supervisor you will be working as part of a small team and will be responsible for the day to day running of the Sack Plant, ensuring the production plan always meets timelines and deadlines and all products are correctly made first time. With quality and safety at the forefront.

This role is 40 hours per week contract working shifts: Monday to Friday 6am-2pm, 2pm-10pm and 7am-4pm.

**The key responsibilities for this role are**:
**Malt handling**
- Ensure malt is ran over the bridge conveyor to the correct packing bin ready to move into the Sack Plant for packing.
- Ensuring malt is ran through the malt handling system, cleaned through the Law Denis screen and destoners.
- Ensuring the correct weight of malt is ran to the correct buffer bin and is clean and free from stone and contamination.
- Ensuring malt is ran to the correct bagging line. This being either whole 25kgs, crushed 25kgs or 1/2mt or 1mt whole malt bags.
- Ensure that the grist analysis is carried out on every batch of crushed malt. Ensuring that the grist analysis is in spec prior to bagging.
- Ensure that the correct malt reaches the required bagging line in full.

**Bagging line operations**
- Working with the Sack Plant Operator who is operating the malt handling equipment to make sure that the right malt makes it to the required bagging line.
- Ensure the correct malt is bagged into either 25kgs, 1/2mt or 1mt bags going by the Sack Plant production plan.
- Ensuring the metal detector checks are carried out at the start of each shift.
- Ensuring the correct label is applied to the correct bags. Checking each SS batch number at the start and end of each run.
- Ensuring the bags are palletised neatly and correctly. Ensuring that the correct pallet formation is being used depending on if you are bagging whole or crushed malt.

**Stock transfer via FLT to the warehouse**
- Ensuring that pallets are wrapped correctly, and bags are secured to the pallet.
- Ensuring that the right pallet label is applied to each pallet.
- Ensuring that stock is booked into the warehouse via the in-house scan gun system correct and in full. Ensuring that it is also placed safely into the racking location.

**Loading trailers and containers for dispatch**
- Making sure that trailers are loaded safely and correctly.
- Ensuring the containers are loaded safely and in full. Ensuring that the correct paperwork is filled out and that the load is secured for shipping.

**Health and safety**
- Report identified hazards, near misses and accidents to your line manager as soon as possible to allow action to be taken.
- Report any breaches in Crisp procedures to your line manager as soon as possible to ensure adherence to legislation and internal requirements

**Hygiene**
- Ensure that the Sack Plant area, both inside and outside is kept clean and tidy to an auditable standard to ensure compliance to food safety regulations and customer requirements.
- Work with the site cleaning team to perform cleaning tasks around site as required.

**Experience**:
Essential:

- Ability to work cooperatively with others and without supervision.
- Good level of written and oral English language.
- Able to work within a fast past environment to ensure orders are packed and dispatch in a timely manner and right first time.
- Have a flexible approach to working hours.
- Strong communication skills to develop working relationships.

Desirable:

- FLT license.
- Previous production-based experience.
- Previous use of barcode scan gun systems.
- Previous understanding of stock control in and out.

**Benefits we offer**:

- Competitive salary
- Generous new starters bonus at 3- and 6-months service
- Pension scheme
- Long term disability insurance
- Death in service benefits
- Option to join our discretionary Group profit bonus scheme
- Access to an employee discount platform.
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Access to comprehensive EAP and Mental health first aiders
- Enhanced company sick pay after 6 months service
- Learning and Development Opportunities.

**Salary**: £26,274.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme
- Signing bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Fakenham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In