Weighbridge Operator

Role Overview

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with the site team to ensure grain is of the required quality at intake and ensure accurate and precise testing of raw material.
• Cover weighbridge operations during available hours and input of tickets as well as input of tickets from the previous day.
• Work with the site team with the loading and dispatch of finished malt product and feed.
• Carry out sample testing at pre-steep, malt, pellet and bulk, and preparation of sample collections; rotation and maintenance of sample storage.
• Work with the Production Manager to ensure weighbridge and laboratory equipment is maintained and calibrated regularly.
• Support with administration tasks, including cleaning schedules and shift handover documents.
• Work with site management to ensure compliance to health and safety procedures and take an active role in improving site safety.
• Ensure Weighbridge and Laboratory area is clean and tidy and complies with health and food safety regulations.
• Work with the site team to perform accurate and precise testing of each raw material delivery against a pre-determined specification.
• Complete thorough checking of representative load samples of delivery to identify detrimental attributes such as insect infestation, ergot, fusarium, rodent droppings, admixture and split or skinned corns.
• Work with the site team to ensure incoming grain is tipped in the correct locations.
• Ensure that each load is delivered with the correct paperwork, including combinable crops passport for raw grain, and paperwork is completed correctly.

Additional Duties

• Ensure that the grain management system is up to date and information is entered correctly.
• Ensure a sample of each load, including rejected loads, is retained for 24 months and can be found easily; samples must be well labelled and stored in a sealed vessel.
• Work with the site team to ensure vehicles are directed to the correct loading location and are loaded with the correct product.
• Assist with ensuring that vehicles loading in bulk are checked for cleanliness and the previous three loads are examined to comply with food safety regulations.
• Ensure dispatch paperwork is completed correctly and dispatched with the correct product; ensure the grain management system is kept up to date.
• Ensure required paperwork is completed correctly and records are maintained to comply with FEMAS regulations.
• Ensure all equipment for the weighbridge and Laboratory are kept in good condition, cleaned regularly and checked for defaults; report breakages to the Line Manager.
• Work with the IT department to ensure computer systems are in good working order.
• Report identified hazards, near misses and accidents to your line manager as soon as possible.
• Report any breaches in Crisp procedures to your line manager as soon as possible.
• Ensure that the weighbridge area and Laboratory, both inside and outside, is kept clean and tidy to an auditable standard.
• Assist the site team to perform cleaning tasks around site as required.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• Essential: Ability to work cooperatively with others and without supervision.
• Essential: Able to work within a fast-paced environment to ensure process timings and quality requirements consistently met.
• Essential: Have a flexible approach to working hours.
• Essential: Strong communication skills to develop working relationships.
• Essential: Full, clean UK driving license.
• Desirable: Experience working within Maltings.
• Desirable: Fork Lift Truck licence.
• Desirable: Relevant weighbridge and/or Laboratory experience.
• Desirable: Understanding of the safe use of chemicals.

Person Specification

What We Can Offer You

• 33 days holiday, inclusive of bank holiday (22 days for shift workers, inclusive of bank holidays).
• Pension Scheme.
• Death in service benefit.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave.
• Shared parental leave.
• Company sick pay.
• Volunteer day off per year.
• Long service awards.
• Access to comprehensive Employee Assistance programme.
• Access to a number of Mental Health First Aiders.
• Learning & Development opportunities.

Application

• Interested candidates should apply online.