Production Operative - Mix Prep (PM Shift)

Join Our Mix Prep PM Shift !

We are looking for Production Operatives to join our Mix Prep PM Shift! Hours of work will be 14:00 to 00:30 (with 2 x 30 minutes unpaid breaks), from Monday to Thursday. Starting salary is £12.10 per hour with an enhanced rate of £15.13 per hour. Enhanced rate is for hours between 20:00 and 06:00 and for hours over 37.5 per week.

All roles are fully task-rotated to reduce fatigue and ensure your job remains engaging throughout the course of the shift.

Key Responsibilities:

• Machine Setup: You will be responsible for the initial setup of our scales and mixers at the beginning of each shift, ensuring they are set up correctly for work to commence
• Decanting Ingredients: You'll prepare various quantities of ingredients for use, ensuring they are always to-hand as required by your colleagues within the Mix Prep team or those working in the production lines.
• Weighing-out Ingredients: You'll be in charge of precisely weighing the correct ingredients against bespoke recipes for all of our delicious product fillings.
• Maintaining Traceability: You will play a key role in guaranteeing the safety and traceability of our products, ensuring that batch numbers for raw ingredients and completed mixes are correctly displayed and recorded.
• Supplying the Production Lines: You'll work to ensure our production lines are kept well-supplied throughout the course of your shift.
• Mixer Operation: Operating Mixers is another important aspect of your role, as you'll ensure every high quality mix has an even distribution of each mouth-watering ingredient.
• Glaze Preparation: Preparing glaze is also a part of your role, ensuring a consistent supply of glaze to be applied to pastry products, ensuring an even, lustrous appearance when baked.
• Waste Management: We take waste and yield management seriously, and you will be responsible for minimising waste and for handling and disposing of it correctly to maintain a clean and efficient work environment for the production of high quality products.
• Team Support: You'll be part of a close-knit team with a dedicated team leader always available to provide help and guidance.
• Training Programme: We provide full and comprehensive training. You'll undergo a training programme that prioritizes quality and efficiency, turning you into a food manufacturing pro in no time!
  
  

Are you tempted to become a key player in the manufacture of our delicious pastries?

Why Join Us?

By joining our team as a Production Operative, you'll be at the heart of our production, contributing to the creation of high quality products that our customers love. We offer a supportive work environment, opportunities for growth, and a chance to be a part of a team that takes pride in producing exceptional quality pastry products.

If you're looking for a rewarding role in a dynamic and growing company, apply now to join our talented Mix Prep team. Your attention to detail and dedication, including the vital machine setup at the start of each shift, will make a significant impact on our production process.

Finally, we pay what we advertise - no reduced rates for under-25s, no bait-and-switch, no funny business! Just a proper job with a proper paycheck!

Even better bits!

After your probationary period you will have earned a Food Safety Level 2 certificate and H&S Level 2 certificate. We also have a comprehensive training and development offering and a strong track record of career progression within the business.

Through our Company Values of ‘Customer First’, ‘Honesty’, ‘Quality’, ‘Friendliness’ and ‘Passion’, and our 250 colleagues, we take pride in making the world a better place every day by filling it with pasties and other sweet and savoury pastry delights.

As well as working with an amazing team of people you will also be working for a Company with a Gold Health and Wellbeing Award. Your well-being is essential to us, and we are dedicated to supporting a healthy and happy workforce.

So, if you are a team player with a positive ‘can do’ attitude and you want to be part of our friendly and rapidly growing company, please apply here or call 01208 265830 for more information.

Please visit our careers page for information on what it's like at Proper Cornish but here are a few of our Proper Perks to whet your appetite!

PROPER PERKS

• Free pasties and other pastries every day
• Free fruit and drinks every day
• Subsidised canteen
• Monthly colleague treats
• Quarterly Staff BBQs
• Bake sales / competitions
• Christmas goodies and celebrations
• Free use of spa and golf facilities in St Austell
• Subsidised massages
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Company funded Health Cash Plan
• Death in Service Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme (24 / 7 free and confidential helpline)
• Employment anniversary cash awards
• £500 colleague referral bonuses
• Huge discounts on boxes of pasties, pastries, cakes and tarts!
• Local business discounts
• Excellent Career Development Opportunities
• Great Company Communication (Monthly Newsletter, Suggestion Boxes, Colleague Comms Team etc)
• Flexible working opportunities
• Job security with a growing business