Position Overview & Specifications

PRODUCTION OPERATIVES (Food Manufacturing)

**IMMEDIATE STARTS**

· As an operative you will be producing ready to cook meals, kebabs and BBQ products for high end retailers.

· You’ll be working on the production lines to make large batches of products which will then be sold and distributed to our extensive customer base.

What might I be doing?

There are lots of different product we produce here on site, what you’ll be doing could vary, but is likely to include some or all of the following:

Preparing and skewering kebab/BBQ – goal 3 kebabs per minute
Accurately weighing out raw materials
Using modern machinery and technology throughout the process
Ensuring packs meet the product specification
Complying with health and safety standards on site
Working on different areas of production including final pack
Ensuring base labels are correctly aligned on packs
Packing products
Reworking products when necessary you’ll need to be able to read and understand instructions and also have a decent level of arithmetic so you can calculate weights and measures, raw materials.

We have the following shifts:

AM: 6am-2pm (Mon-Fri), 6am-4pm (Alternate Saturdays)
PM: Mon-Fri (2.30 – 10.30PM) 9.30am – 7.30pm (Alternate Saturdays
3 on 3 off 6am - 6pm

What about the pay?

£10 per hour after that there are numerous courses that you can take which will enable you to excel at your work – for instance, HACCP, Food safety Level 3 – these short courses provide an ideal starting point to enhance your qualifications and skills levels.

About Us:

Bernard Matthews Derby Ltd proudly employ more than 1100 colleagues just at the Derby site alone, drawn from a range of nationalities to help to make a mind-boggling array of some of the finest food in Britain – specialising in poultry.

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: £10.00 per hour

Benefits: