A great opportunity to work as a Food Production Operative for our client, who are a well known Biscuit manufacture.

Staffline are recruiting for Food Production Operatives based in Batley.

The hours of work are, 5 days out of 7, days and nights available:
- Rotating Shift Monday - Friday 07:00 - 14:30/14:30 - 22:00 Saturday & Sunday 07:00 - 19:00
- Night Shift Monday - Thursday 22:00 - 07:00 Friday - 22:00 - 07:00 Saturday & Sunday - 19:00 - 07:00

The rate of pay is:
- Rotating Shift - £12.71 per hour
- Nights - £13.33 per hour

The overtime pay is:
- Rotating - after 37.5hrs - £16.86 per hour
- Nights - after 36hrs - £16.86 per hour

Your Time at Work

During your time as a Food Production Operative you will:

- Flexibility and dexterity required to pack biscuits into blue tubs either row pack, or flat pack onto biscuit flute.
- Feed biscuits into magazine feeds
- Pack finished goods into outers ensuring quality of seals and palletised correctly
- Feed inserts into tracks that feed wrapping machines
- Ensure codes are checked and correct highlighting any concerns immediately to your Line Captain
- Fill assorted biscuits into trays
- Ensure you are only using the correct packaging & materials
- Ensure the number of biscuits you required to fill is correct.
- Supply empty blue tubs to staff or pile full blue tubs on boards
- Be responsible for your Health & Safety and of others, following all safety procedures
- "Clean As You Go" includes sweeping your work area and ensuring all floors on your line are free of any trip or slip hazards.
- Ensure waste is correctly handled and disposed of in the correct way (recycling is a priority on site)
- In depth cleaning is often required such as mopping, scraping and washing webs.
- Good behaviour and team work are expected at all times
- Ensure you follow all procedures and raise concerns with line captains promptly.
- You are required to be on your line, ready to start work at your shift starting time.

Our Perfect Worker

Our perfect worker will:
- Good understanding of written & spoken English
- Willingness to learn and be flexible in the tasks required of you
- Ability to lift boxes and tubs of biscuits safely - weighing 1.2kg (empty) to 11kg full
- Ability to stack pallets from ground level to height of approximately 1.75m
- Work at speed handling biscuits on a moving web or track
- Work as part of a team - to join in and help those around you
- Be able to follow instructions from other team members and Line Leader
- Be able to check quality of packets and product
- Manual dexterity and being able to carry out repetitive tasks as necessary
- To be able to stand throughout a shift (minus breaks)

Key Information and Benefits

- Temp to perm opportunity
- OnSite support from Staffline
- Canteen on site
- Free car parking on site
- Good links to public transport
- Uniform provided
- PPE provided
- Full training provided

Job Ref: 1FOX

About Staffline

Staffline is the UK's largest recruitment solutions partner, enabling over 35,000 people into good work every week. We operate at more than 420 customer sites across England, Scotland and Wales.

As one of the most established recruitment agencies in Nottingham with operations across the UK, we specialise in connecting businesses with temporary and permanent jobs across warehouse & logistics, food and drink, aviation, driving, technical & engineering, manufacturing & automotive and security.
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