Utility Operator

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Utility Operator

Location: Walsingham, Norfolk, UK

Contract / Shift Pattern: Permanent, 4 on 4 off days only (48 hrs a week, break included in core hours)

Are You Looking for a New Role in the Milling Industry?

We have an exciting opportunity for a great individual to join our team and support our milling operation. As a key member of our team, you will carry out a range of tasks that ensure the smooth operation of our processes, including raw material intake, bulk outloading, pressing, blending, additives preparation, and hygiene maintenance.

Your role will be crucial in maximising efficiency, service, and feed consistency, all while upholding the highest standards of feed safety and health and safety.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Weigh and load finished product lorries with the correct feed types, performing a range of quality checks.
2. Maintain hygiene levels in the mill to the required standards.
3. Weigh raw material vehicles in and out of the site, perform quality checks, and ensure materials are correctly routed to storage locations.
4. Prepare and supply hand-tip additions for blending.
5. Prioritise food safety in all operations.
6. Assist in meeting and exceeding UFAS standards.
7. Adhere to all site and company health and safety regulations.
8. Follow and improve site hygiene routines and action plans.
9. Perform stock checks as required.
10. Operate press and blending processes as needed.
11. Undertake swabbing and sampling processes.

About you:

1. Prior experience in food, agricultural, or production environments.
2. Experience working with automated plant machinery.
3. Proven ability to balance responsibilities in a complex environment.
4. Feed mill production experience. (Desirable)
5. PC skills. (Desirable)
6. FLT License. (Desirable)

About The Company

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

We’re AB Agri part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.