Bulk Manufacturing Operative

**The Role & Key Responsibilities**:
**Job Title**: Bulk Manufacturing Operative

**Location**:Monmouth, Wales

**Contract Type & Shift**:Permanent - 39 hours per week, Day Shift - Monday - Thursday - 08:00 - 16:30 - Friday - 08:00 - 15:15

As a Production Operative you will be a key member of the operations team, working as a team to create premixed animal feed to meet customer orders. You, along with your production colleagues will be responsible for making products in a safe working condition ensuring that the quality of our products is to the highest standards.

**You’ll be responsible for**:

- **Weighing ingredients** - Preparing precisely weighed ingredients for addition into individual batches at one of several weigh stations in the factories. Ingredients are delivered in bags and boxes and must be batch tracked and weighed accurately with an attention to detail to ensure product integrity
- **Carrying packaging** - Batches of premix containing several ingredients including whole and part bags (weighed). Individual ingredients are selected and added onto a pallet for tipping into a mixer bin before been mixed and packed.
- **Adding ingredients into batch** - The pre weighed ingredients and whole bags must be discharged into the mixer bin via the hand tips, along with bulk addition that is semi-automated and controlled from the station.

In addition, you will be:

- Operating production line equipment
- Reporting equipment faults to maintenance staff
- Monitoring the production process and carrying out basic testing and quality checks
- Cleaning and maintaining work areas and machinery

**What you will bring**:

- Previous experience in food/ agricultural/production environments
- Feed Mill production experience - desirable
- FLT Counterbalance License - desirable
- Experience of using articulated forklifts would be desirable

**Rewarding your passion**

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits; also an option to buy an additional 5 days annual leave, and up to 10% pension contribution
- these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

**About The Company**:
**The Future is Five Star**

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits - these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

**About us**

NAF is the leading equine supplement brand in the UK. We are quickly becoming the first choice for horse owners and riders in Europe because we are passionate about our products and passionate about our animals. Our mantra is “for the good of every horse” and this is lived through our customers being owners and riders at all levels and in all disciplines across the UK and Europe.

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