Lead Operator - Nights *Internal 3 month Secondment*

*Internal Applications Only*

We have 3 month internal Secondment opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Lead Operator to join our Nights Shift within our Dairy department at Yeo Valley Crewkerne.  This role is a 4 on, 4 off night shift, working 18:00 – 6:00.

This opportunity would provide valuable exposure to nightshift operations for anyone looking to broaden their experience and develop their leadership skills.

Key responsibilities:

• Energises the team and demonstrates a consistently enthusiastic approach, taking action quickly and encouraging others to do the same.
• Demonstrating a commitment to Health & Safety by working in a safe manner, role modelling our safety behaviors , challenging unsafe practices, rectifying unsafe conditions and escalating to other team members when support is needed.
• Understanding, leading and maintaining good manufacturing practices and company standards of hygiene, PPE, and dress code.
• Role models a 'Clean as You Go' approach, leading workplace organisation and visual management standards with the team.
• Active involvements in changeover optimsation with the team, identifying areas of opportunity and resource coordination that improve asset utilisation.
• Communicates and shares performance data and ensures team awareness and connection of how their role contributes to the success of the shift, site and business.
• Undertake basic fault finding and rectification on equipment and actively support the identification of root cause when escalating to the wider support team when required.
• Ensuring all equipment is properly cared for through the layered validation of the cleaning tasks and the compliance to the schedule.
• Collate, suggest, initiate and implement improvement activities within own team and outside of team across all shifts 
• Work across the team and effective handovers to understand common challenges and opportunities seeking to identify where investigations may help most.