CS Production Operator - Browns

British Sugar is a home-grown success story and one of the most efficient and competitive beet processers in the world. Around 3,500 farmers based in East Anglia and the East Midlands supply our four advanced manufacturing sites with eight million tonnes of sugar beet every year. We, in turn, make this in to over 1 million tonnes of sugar, serving customers across the UK, Ireland and increasingly growing commercially in the EU and world sugar markets.

Job Details

Full Time, Permanent

Location: Newark

Salary : 45,000 per annum

Job Purpose

To safely manufacture crafted brown sugars for retail and industrial customers ensuring that the production plan is met in full whilst complying with site procedures.

Core Accountabilities

• Maintain a proactive approach to safety, quality & hygiene to ensure standards are maintained and improved
• Cleaning routines and clean as you go activities completed
• Ensure product despatched is compliant with relevant standards and manufactured to defined recipes
• Complete and record required safety, food safety, CCP checks and analysis on equipment and product. Ensure records managed to comply with customer and site requirements
• Demonstrate the food safe operation of the area to auditors and customers
• Inspect equipment prior to operating to ensure the safety, quality, and integrity of our product before sending to customer
• Ensure minimal waste from the manufacturing process by complying with all food safety and quality procedures and monitoring the line for operational issues
• Support bulk, bagging and warehouse operations where required
• Record required performance metrics to enable improvement and monitoring of the site operations
• Carry out sampling, lab analysis and visual quality checks of the sugar, raw materials, bags and equipment and flag any issues for assistance

Skills, Knowledge & Competencies

• Ability to work as an individual and with groups
• Experience of working in a lean operating environment
• Hold a counterbalance licence
• Competent operation of the system PLCs and audio-visual inspections of mixing, conveying, bagging screening and packaging equipment
• Record all relevant customer, quality or safety information required for successful despatch
• Maintain a proactive approach to safety, quality & hygiene to ensure standards are maintained and improved
• Competent use of British Sugar IT systems including the warehouse management system, Teams, and Outlook