Join our production team and play a key role in
delivering high-quality malt to customers around the world. As a Shift
Operator, you will help ensure our malt consistently exceeds customer
quality expectations while supporting efficient, cost-effective operations from
barley intake through to malt dispatch.
You will contribute to a safe, sustainable, and
high-performing workplace by actively promoting a zero-harm culture,
prioritizing the health and safety of everyone on site, and helping to minimize
our environmental impact.
In this hands-on role, you will monitor and control
the day-to-day operation of the barley intake, drying, and malt production
processes, as well as the dispatch of malt and co-products, ensuring smooth and
efficient production across the site.
Key responsibilities:
Control of the malting production process from barley to malt as follows:
- Barley intake barley drying and screening.
- Barley to steep as per process instruction and
- control via PLC.
- Steeping as per process instruction and control via PLC.
- Germination per process instruction and control via PLC..
- Conduct & record confirmation of checks on process batch cards progress of any adverse conditions associated with the malt process.
- control.management.(Labchecks).of breakdowns/faults and initial inspections.detailed end of shift handover & communicate to oncoming ShiftOperator
- Kilning as per process instruction and control
- Malt/Pellets/Screenings out loading.
- Monitoring of process control and reaction to and
- Alerting management of any deviations in process
- Preparation of samples.
- Any other reasonable duties as requested by
- Weighbridge operation.
- Barley dressing.
- Checks before dispatch
- Reporting
- Complete
- Hygiene/Cleaning
- Completion & confirmation of completion (or justification of non-completion) of jobs as detailed on cleaning sheets.
- Working on own initiative, prioritise accordinglyany other hygiene requirements which is not specifically scheduled on theissued cleaning sheet.
- Documentation and Records
- All the following documents to be completed (non-exhaustive list):
- Barley dressing sheet, screenings analysis, barley
- drying sheet.
- All sections of the batch record sheets.
- Cleaning sheet.
- Magnet record sheets.
- Checks before dispatch.
- Shift Change Sheets
- Shift Check Sheets
- Fault Log / Maximo (as required)
- Lab analysis sheets.
- Statutory/Legal Obligations
- Ensure compliance with all current legal & statutory obligations including, but not limited to, Health & Safety,HACCP/food safety, environmental and employment legislation.Qualifications/skills:
- Understanding of the full malting process (barley intake, drying & storage through to malt despatch) to allow the roleholder to operate the site during a single person 12hr shift.
- The ability to attain MAGB Fundamentals in malting qualification within 3 years of starting employment.
- Conduct barley quality analysis on incoming loads and malt quality checks pre-despatch
- Operation of weighbridge system & loading of lorries with malt & co-products as required.
- Understanding the electrical and mechanical operation of the site & ability to undertake basic fault finding & report process deviations or machinery faults which cannot be corrected.
- Provide direct assistance to shift engineer partner and other engineers.
- Understanding the importance of health & safety, food & feed safety, site hygiene, environmental issues and accurate record keeping.
- Basic to intermediate level IT skills.
- Ability to follow process instructions and a common sense thinking and approach to allow working on own initiative to a level of authority.
- Practical hands-on attitude with good situational awareness and the ability to complete documented risk assessments where necessary and work safely at all times.
- Able to actively participate in daily operations meetings
- Able to successfully complete training inc misc safety related courses, telehandler and shovel loader driver training, and any other training required to carry out normal operator duties.
- Actively participate in continual improvement initiatives.
Advantages:
We offer an attractive salary and benefits
package and as part of a global organization can offer career opportunities
internationally. As Masters of Malt we want to be a great employer, focusing on
flexibility, inclusion, collaboration and health and wellbeing.
We live our values, putting people at the heart of what we do.
“Strive” - our ambition is to be the
best maltster that's why every day we commit to challenge ourselves to achieve
the highest level.
“Care” - our strength is magnificent
when we care for our earth, our colleagues and our business partners. We
encourage trust, respect and treat each other with respect. We believe that
Diversity makes us stronger.
“Inspire” - We adopt a long-term
orientation delivering sustainable performance through innovation and
digitization, becoming praised Masters of Malt.
“Explore” – thinking out of the box
and embracing pioneer ideas to become a source of motivation, we like
challenging the status quo to develop full potential.
Work Location: In person
