Mill Operator

**The Role & Key Responsibilities**:
**Job Title**:Mill Operative

**Location**:Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, UK

**Shift Patterns - **5-5-4 days and nights rotating** **weekly.

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 Mill Operative you will be responsible to carry out the day-to-day operation of the mill production plant, equipment, and processes from raw material intake to out loading. Maximise efficiency, service and feed consistency while ensuring that feed safety and health and safety are never compromised.

**Other responsibilities include**:

- Production of finished product to the defined quality standard
- Completion of the daily production plan as part of the team
- Achieve Hygiene levels to the required standards within their area & the site.
- Ensure compliance with Health and Safety and Environmental Law and Policy while seeking to continuously improve in these areas.
- Liaise with site management team to provide accurate information to allow effective raw material deliveries, stock control and to ensure production and feed deliveries are effectively aligned.
- Liaise with site maintenance teams to ensure plant is effectively maintained. - Support stock takes. - Responsible for their own and their colleagues Health & Safety within the production areas

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 growth of the business by ensuring that the mill performs at its best allowing production targets to be met.

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

- Prior experience in food/agricultural/production environments (Essential)
- Working with automated plant machinery (Essential)
- Demonstrated ability to prioritise tasks in a busy environment. (Essential)
- Lean Manufacturing experience (Desirable)
- Distribution methods (Desirable)
- Organisation/prioritisation skills (Essential)
- PC Skills (Desirable)

**About The Company**:
**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**

**Agencies and media sales**

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