Job description
PRODUCTION OPERATIVES (Food Manufacturing)
**IMMEDIATE STARTS**
- As an operative you will be producing ready to cook meals, kebabs and BBQ products for high end retailers.
- You’ll be working on the production lines to make large batches of products which will then be sold and distributed to our extensive customer base.
What might I be doing?
There are lots of different product we produce here on site, what you’ll be doing could vary, but is likely to include some or all of the following:
- Preparing and skewering kebab/BBQ – goal 3 kebabs per minute
- Accurately weighing out raw materials
- Using modern machinery and technology throughout the process
- Ensuring packs meet the product specification
- Complying with health and safety standards on site
- Working on different areas of production including final pack
- Ensuring base labels are correctly aligned on packs
- Packing products
- Reworking products when necessary you’ll need to be able to read and understand instructions and also have a decent level of arithmetic so you can calculate weights and measures, raw materials.
This is a fixed term contract until the end of March and may lead to a permanent role.
We have the following shifts:
- AM: 6am-2pm (Mon-Fri), 6am-4pm (Alternate Saturdays)
- PM: Mon-Fri (2.30 – 10.30PM) 9.30am – 7.30pm (Alternate Saturdays
- 3 on 3 off 6am - 6pm
What about the pay?
£10.52 per hour after that there are numerous courses that you can take which will enable you to excel at your work – for instance, HACCP, Food safety Level 3 – these short courses provide an ideal starting point to enhance your qualifications and skills levels.
About Us:
Bernard Matthews Derby Ltd proudly employ more than 1100 colleagues just at the Derby site alone, drawn from a range of nationalities to help to make a mind-boggling array of some of the finest food in Britain – specialising in poultry.
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £10.52 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: One location