M6 Operator

Package Description

Job Purpose: 

The key purpose of this role is the delivery of customer orders ‘on time, in full’(OTIF) whilst using various data capture systems to ensure live management and communication to the factory floor of key operational KPI’s including Waste, Giveaway, Throughput, Efficiency and Labour Utilisation.  The role is key to ensuring the effective distribution of 100% of all birds slaughtered to the correct destination based on the weight and grade of each individual product. Every department on site, Kill, Cut and Wholebird are dependent on this role being effectively expedited at all times. To follow procedures and required practices to ensure that we produce products of the highest quality, food safety and food integrity.

Accountabilities:

• Responsibility for ensuring production schedules created by the Planning Manager are accurately expedited in the production department.
• Maintain lowest possible levels of giveaway at all times by ensuring correct sized raw material is matched with appropriate retail orders.
• Assist factory management to ensure labour and man hours are in line with agreed establishments and successfully flexed where retail requirements are up or down.
• Constant assessment of machinery performance to ensure optimum performance at all times and minimal downtime.  Use live data to advise of preventative maintenance requirements for key equipment.
• Live analysis of Key Performance Indicators including throughput, gross and net yield, giveaway, waste, uptime, downtime, plan attainment, service level and numerous other performance drivers.
• Management of various systems, Live Bird Intake, FOPS, Meyn M5, bespoke dashboards and CCTV to accurately monitor and adjust operations to ensure the highest level of performance at all times.
• Provide vital communication and feedback between all levels of factory and front-line management.
• Monitor machine/line performance and alert Engineering to signs of machine inefficiency.
• Monitor line performance and advise Front Line Management as and when excessive pack rejections are being generated and the reasons for this (Weight, Quality, Fault Etc)
• Anything else required to complete your role successfully.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• L2 or higher HACCP qualifications
• Level 3 Food Safety, Level 3 HACCP, IOSH Managing Safely – Full training provided if required
• High Level of IT competency required. Training on specific software packages will be provided but a minimum of Intermediate Microsoft Excel is a key Requirement.
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Excellent Organisational Skills
• Good Written (email) and Oral Communication Skills
• Mathematics Skills
• Understanding of Business Operations
• Attention to Detail