Job Type: Pet Food – Extrusion Line Owner

Salary: £25,740 DOE plus 25 days holiday, staff discounts and excellent pension scheme

Hours: 44 hours pw. Rotational shift pattern of 5 days / 3 nights / 3 nights

Location: Thirsk, Yorkshire, UK

Job ref: 9551

Here at VF Recruitment, we are helping our clients Inspired Pet Nutrition (IPN), the home of well-known pet brands, such as Harringtons and Wagg, find their next hire.

Their people are important to them and pets are important to their people! They are looking for people to join them on their journey as they continue to grow and expand their offering to pets here in the UK.

These are exciting times for IPN, they are the number one manufacturer in the UK for dry dog food and they are expanding fast into new categories, such as wet food, treats, cat, etc.

This role offers great opportunities for career progression! Plus, as your skill set grows, you will have an opportunity to increase your salary within your first 6 months of starting with the Company!

So, if you enjoy the pace and challenge of working within a manufacturing environment focussed on ensuring we have healthy pets and you are looking for your next step, then this is the opportunity for you!!!

The role includes:

• You will be making my clients products by being an owner of an extrusion line, it’s a fast-moving manufacturing environment so you must be comfortable with working in a dynamic and often high-pressure environment. It can also get very hot which can be uncomfortable at times.
• As part of running an extrusion line you will need to respond to machine stoppages, identify and correct issues where possible or escalate to the engineering team if required.
• You will perform various checks and be responsible for all products being produced to the highest level of quality. Pets count on us giving them the best quality food.
• My clients are very keen on minimising waste of raw materials, products, packaging, chemicals and water. Everyone has a responsibility to keep this to a minimum.
• Produce various different products so you will need to learn how to set up our machinery to run different products to the highest quality. This will include setting up different dies, cleaning down machinery during a change over and analysing problems that may occur during production.
• All finished products need to be labelled correctly to help the packing department pack the finished product.

• When you join, you will go through our structured induction and training programme, your training will continue as you progress in the role.

• You will be provided with training and information on the regulations of Food Safety legislation amongst other things to help you in your role.
• As your skill set grows, you will have an opportunity to increase your salary.

• In addition to the above, you may need to operate a forklift truck, if this is the case all the training will be provided.

Person Specification

• My clients are looking for hard-working and motivated people who would love to grow with the business and learn the art of manufacturing.
• Looking for people who live their company values; Ambition, Pride, Excellence.
• Require inquisitive people who really enjoy problem solving, getting to the root cause of problems.
• You will need to have good organisational skills; you will need this to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
• You should have a basic understanding of English and Maths.
• It’s great if you have previous production or factory experience, but we will also consider people with different work experience as long as you are committed and have a desire to work in manufacturing.
• You must be comfortable with working rotational shift patterns

Other

 Due to our location, it’s essential that you have your own transport, as the site isn’t accessible via public transport.

Benefits

• This role offers a competitive salary, increase after probation.
• 25 days holiday (pro-rata) + bank holidays
• Staff shop
• Excellent pension scheme.

Interested? Be 1st … Apply now!

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Thanks, and good luck, VF Recruitment.

Jemma@VFRecruitment.co.uk