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Trainee Production Machine Operator

Job details
Posting date: 10 April 2024
Salary: £24,500 to £24,500 per year
Additional salary information: starting salary £24,500 (after probation £25,200) + 33 days holiday (incl.BH) + Pension + EAP + Life Assurance + other Company benefits
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 10 May 2024
Location: Dartford, Kent
Company: UCC Coffee UK Ltd
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 781

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Summary

You will be working with a small and friendly production shop floor team, helping and learning from specialist machine operators how to put coffee related products together from a green bean to finished high quality product, ready for customer despatch.

The Role:

-Load materials and products into package processing equipment, ensuring all equipment, machines and production areas always comply with health and safety and personal hygiene rules.
-Examine and inspect containers, materials, and products to ensure that packing specifications are met, removing completed or defective products or materials, placing them in designated locations.
-Move finished packaged items using pallet trollies to designation holding area ready for despatch.
-Train and supervise a packing line of staff to ensure maximum efficiency and product quality to ensure all coffee products are packed to the customer’s specification by ensuring all machines are set-up and working well.
-Keep waste to a minimum and ensure all machine problems are reported timely to the Shift Manager to maintain maximum machine efficiency.
-Ensure all clean downs for decaffeinated and organic products are adhered to in line with work instructions and that the corresponding paperwork is completed.
-Complete quality tests as stated in work instruction to ensure coffee is within specification and packed out as per online job sheet instructions.
-Complete any other tasks and duties deemed to be reasonable requests to ensure daily team targets are met.

The Person:

-Some manufacturing experience is preferred but not essential as full training will be given
-Motivated self-starter who enjoys working under pressure
-Confident communicator and an avid problem-solver
-Willing to learn new skills and operate equipment in an autonomous role
-Displays a mechanical aptitude and works in an organised and methodical manner
-Enjoys working as part of a team, or on their own as required
-Demonstrates basic numerical, reading, analytical and computer skills
-Able to follow strict health and safety guidelines and quality procedures consistently
-Double shift pattern on rotation: Weekdays 6am to 2pm and 2pm to 10pm

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