Position Title: Former Operative
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Wombourne
Requisition ID: 33112


There's nothing beige about Mc Cain…
Except our potatoes — and we’re extremely passionate about them. When you join Mc Cain, you’ll be joining the biggest player in the frozen potato game, bringing people together around the nation for over 60 years by sharing simple, delicious planet friendly food.
We’ve partnered with thousands of the country’s supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, hospitals, and schools to change the way people see the humble spud. It’s all about elevation and creating something better. So, come and make your career at Mc Cain Foods.


ABOUT THE ROLE:
As a Former Operative, you will be responsible for effectively and efficiently operating machinery, ensuring area performance is optimised and in line with business requirements, Quality and Food Safety.


Key tasks of the role include, but are not limited to:

• Operating production machines to deliver production targets, whilst ensuring that all OEE, HS&E and quality targets and standards are met.
• Compliance with all company policies, management procedures, systems of work and standard operating procedures.
• Respond pro-actively to hour-by-hour variances to support “abnormality management”.
• Support the area SQDC process, ensuring that hourly performance boards are updated; any issues are highlighted promptly with appropriate escalation at all times.
• Work towards and support achievement of plant-wide ‘multi-skilled’ status, to include assistance of training new operatives in the area and cover in other roles when appropriate training has been given.
• Support the immediate solving of work problems, and participate where necessary in the work of the wider production team.
• To ensure that you are working to the company code of conduct and upholding Company Standards at all times, including but not limited to HSE, Food Safety, 5’s & SAP.
• To be accountable for your personal safety and others who may be affected by the company’s activities.
• Adhere to the company food safety and quality policy, establishing practices to maintain a Food Safety and Quality focused mind-set that holds both yourself and others to account for those standards.
• Promoting and enforcing behaviours and actions that will prevent all contamination threats to products whether physical, microbial or chemical.
• Actively contribute to a continuous improvement culture.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR…


Experience

• Previous experience in a production/packing operative role (Desirable)
• Operator asset care / maintenance (Desirable)

Knowledge

• Working from set procedures, making minor decisions using own judgements (Essential)
• Understanding and interpreting KPI’s (Desirable)
• Understanding of AIB and GMP standards and audits (Desirable)
• Continuous Improvement principles and practices including 5’s, SQDCPE (Desirable)
• SAP shop floor processes (Desirable)

Skills

• Able to remain focused in a busy and demanding environment (Essential)
• Good communication skills (Essential)
• Good Numeracy and Literacy and Strong computer competence (Essential)
• Analytical thinker / problem solving skills (Essential)
• Ability to work on own initiative or as part of a team (Essential)
• Mechanical aptitude (Essential)
• Display drive / quality focus (Essential)
• Ability to undertake further development training (Essential)
• Possess a Fork Lift Truck driver’s license (Desirable)

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you’ll be pleased to know we don’t pay you in chips. For working hard, you’ll also get a great hourly rate and some pretty good benefits including:

• An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
• Optional health cash plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Chips In’ Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the long-term development of Mc Cain communities across the globe

And of course, being part of a Global business there are great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future. We have an impressive 5 year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out.


WHAT HOURS WILL I WORK?
The shift pattern is 2 days 7am-7pm, 1 day off, 2 nights 7pm-7am followed by 3 days off.


WHERE YOU’LL WORK?
You’ll be based at our Wombourne plant in Staffordshire. And together, our small but perfectly formed team of over 110 colleagues produce our famous (and well loved) potato Smiles as well as our pre-baked Jacket Spuds.


Mc Cain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

Mc Cain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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Job Family: Manufacturing
Division: GB Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Department: Production Shift
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Wombourne
Company: Mc Cain Foods (G.B.) Ltd