Role:
Mill & Warehouse Operator
Location:
Masham, North Yorkshire
Package Details:
£22,672.00+ Benefits
Introduction…
My client supplies animal feed to farmers in the North of England offering customers efficient solutions to feeding on their farms. They are looking for a Mill & Warehouse Operator to join their team.
Roles & Responsibilities
As the Mill & Warehouse Operator, you will be responsible for:
PURPOSE
To produce compound feeds and blended and rolled products, control the weighing in and intake of feed materials, packing operations, loading vehicles, quality control on site, warehouse operations and stock control.
NATURE & SCOPE
The job holder reports to the Operations Director (or Merchant Product Manager in the case of warehouse staff) and may be expected to cover a number of roles within the mill or warehouse including:
Weighbridge and Intake
Ensuring that vehicles discharge according to approved codes of practice
- Sampling & inspection and testing when required of loads prior to tipping
- Routing to correct storage bins
- Reporting all raw materials delivery problems and maintaining adequate intake records
- Inspecting, loading and sampling finished product collection or delivery vehicles.
- Ensuring that a high level of housekeeping is maintained at weighbridge, intake and outloading areas.
Compound Feed
Producing feed to meet transport requirements, suit bin availability, and limit cross contamination.
- Hand weighing of premixes and feed additives and keeping all necessary records.
- Ensuring that high levels of housekeeping are maintained in the hand weighing and all other areas of the mill – including the control room.
- Maintaining stocks of feed materials and ground products.
- Keeping a record of batch numbers on production logs.
- Topping up microweigher bins with the correct premixes
- Stock rotation, ensuring that premixes and medicinal additives are within the stated expiry dates.
- Ensuring that presses & conditioners are operating effectively.
- Ensuring that the correct press and the correct die are being used, to meet the feed specification.
- Monitoring the correct running of the presses, coolers, conveyors and elevators
- Ensuring that finished feed bins are completely empty, before new feeds are introduced
- Ensuring that the appropriate slides are closed/open
- Maintaining appropriate production records.
Blending
Maintaining adequate bay stocks & controlling the sampling, inspection and intake of feed materials and premixes into the blending shed.
- Weighing and mixing blends and transfer to the correct storage bays.
- Hand weighing of premixes or feed additives according to the production formulation, and keeping all necessary records.
- Inspecting, loading and sampling finished product collection or delivery vehicles.
- Ensuring that high levels of housekeeping are maintained in the blending shed.
- Maintaining appropriate production records.
Rolling
Sampling, inspection and testing of loads prior to tipping
- Moisture adjustment by either drying or liquid addition
- Processing and storage prior to rolling
- Rolling and transfer to correct storage areas.
- Ensuring that high levels of housekeeping are maintained in the rolling plant.
- Maintaining appropriate production records.
Packing
Ensuring that all bags are packed, stitched, labelled and stacked correctly.
- Ensuring that bag weights are correct including regular check weighing.
- Ensuring that high levels of housekeeping are maintained on the packing plant.
- Maintaining appropriate packing records and taking samples.
Warehouse
Inspection of delivery paperwork and loads prior to unloading.
- Correct storage and stock rotation.
- Monitoring stock levels and best before dates
- Grass seed storage, blending, packing and distribution.
- Loading vehicles and completing collection / delivery paperwork
- Ensuring that high levels of housekeeping are maintained in the warehouse and yard area.
- Maintaining appropriate batch records.
The job holder is responsible for cleaning according to a planned cleaning schedule maintaining adequate records for audit purposes.
The job holder may be required to assist the maintenance staff with maintenance & calibration jobs and the Quality Controller in taking samples for quality or salmonella testing – for which training will be given.
Skills & Qualifications
We are looking for someone with the following:
- The job holder requires an understanding of all aspects of compound feed, blended and rolled product production as well as intake and warehouse operation.
- Full training is provided by the Company.
MEETING / REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
The job holder may be expected to attend HACCP and / or H&S meetings as required.
PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES
Weighbridge, intake and vehicle loading
- Compound feed production
- Blending, rolling and packing operations
- Warehouse control and grass seed operations
- Hygiene and housekeeping
- Record keeping and sampling.
Salary & Package
What’s on offer for this exciting role:
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£21,000 - £22,672.00 basic
- Pension
- Holiday
- Overtime
How to Apply
If you are interested in this position, please send a CV and Cover Letter to
[email protected] or ring 07441391775 and ask to speak to Sue Greeff who can tell you more.
