Laboratory Production Operative

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Laboratory Production Operative

Contract, Shift: Permanent, Full Time, Friday to Tuesday, one week 7:30am - 3.30pm, the following week 12pm - 8pm

Package includes Salary £24,621.29 a year, and access to flexible benefits that support your development, wellbeing and everyday life.

The Role:

The Laboratory Production Operative will provide essential processing of sample boxes for field staff/farmers to send in samples. Boxes are to be sent out to farms that are to the highest standard, so attention to detail and cleanliness is vital for this role. Basic maintenance of machines will be part of weekly/daily tasks. Carrying out your duties you will be required to work a shift consisting of five days on including weekends with two off during the week.

Key Responsibilities:

• To meet targets set by the Team Leader/Line Manager
• To ensure boxes and pots are washed to the highest standards.
• To alert on shift engineers to issues with machinery.
• To monitor the machine responsible for dosing and capping, making sure no pots are missed.
• To understand and follow all health and safety procedures involved with both the site and individual workstations.

Essential Key Skills:

• To have the ability to understand, follow and convey instructions.
• To have excellent accuracy and attention to detail
• To have good analytical skills
• To have good organisational and time management skills
• Be good at working in a team environment
• The ability to maintain technical equipment
• Computer Literate

About The Company

Decoding milk data, building robust insights.

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

We’re National Milk Records (NMR) a part of the AB Agri community committed to investing in an innovative range of milk quality, herd health and genomic testing services, generating data and building robust insights that empower farmers to make informed decisions on cow productivity.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions, and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.