Receiving Senior Operative
McCain Foods
Date: 1 day ago
City: Peterborough
Contract type: Full time
Position Title: Receiving Senior Operative
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Whittlesey
Requisition ID: 37309
There’s nothing beige about McCain…
Except our potatoes — and we’re extremely passionate about them. When you join McCain, you’ll be joining the biggest player in the frozen potato game, bringing people together around the nation for over 60 years by sharing simple, delicious planet friendly food.
We’ve partnered with thousands of the country’s supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, hospitals, and schools to change the way people see the humble spud. It’s all about elevation and creating something better. So, come and make your career at McCain Foods.
About The Role
Whilst working as part of a team within the Receiving department, the Senior Operative is responsible for ensuring potato intake operates effectively and that a continuous supply of potatoes meets planned schedule to quality requirements.
Key tasks of the role include, but are not limited to:
The ideal candidate will be someone with experience of working in a Receiving/Intake role within a manufacturing environment, with great communication skills and attention to detail.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you’ll be pleased to know we don’t pay you in chips. For working hard, you’ll also get a great hourly rate and some pretty good benefits including:
WHAT HOURS WILL I WORK?
The shift pattern is four on / four off – 2 days 6am-6pm, 2 nights 6pm-6am followed by 4 days off.
WHERE YOU’LL WORK?
You'll be based at our Whittlesey plant in Peterborough. If you’ve spotted our three wind turbines, then you’ll know where we are! With about 350 employees on site, we’re one of our largest plants across the GB business. Our Whittlesey plant is where we make our famous French Fries as well as our chilled products, such as our Shake Shake Fries.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Agriculture
Division: GB Agriculture
Department: Agric Operations Shift C
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Whittlesey
Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Whittlesey
Requisition ID: 37309
There’s nothing beige about McCain…
Except our potatoes — and we’re extremely passionate about them. When you join McCain, you’ll be joining the biggest player in the frozen potato game, bringing people together around the nation for over 60 years by sharing simple, delicious planet friendly food.
We’ve partnered with thousands of the country’s supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, hospitals, and schools to change the way people see the humble spud. It’s all about elevation and creating something better. So, come and make your career at McCain Foods.
About The Role
Whilst working as part of a team within the Receiving department, the Senior Operative is responsible for ensuring potato intake operates effectively and that a continuous supply of potatoes meets planned schedule to quality requirements.
Key tasks of the role include, but are not limited to:
- Ensure sampling is carried out to the standards and samples entered into PC&R correctly and in a timely manner
- Ensure the tradability for the dry bins are correct and there is no cross contamination on the lines.
- Yard management including receiving loads, carrying out checks, driver management and maintaining cleanliness.
- Operation of blending requirements.
- Routine sampling of raw material, checking potato passport, recording of data and liaising with production and Senior Operative on specification achievements. Actioning and maintaining rejection data.
- Completion of area SQDC board
- To assist in the operational training of team members within the area of responsibility
- To monitor and report upon non-conformance to hour-by-hour targets, leading continuous improvement activity and assisting to generate abnormality management practices and revised standards
The ideal candidate will be someone with experience of working in a Receiving/Intake role within a manufacturing environment, with great communication skills and attention to detail.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you’ll be pleased to know we don’t pay you in chips. For working hard, you’ll also get a great hourly rate and some pretty good benefits including:
- An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
- Optional health cash plan
- Cycle to work scheme
- ‘Chips In’ Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the long-term development of McCain communities across the globe
WHAT HOURS WILL I WORK?
The shift pattern is four on / four off – 2 days 6am-6pm, 2 nights 6pm-6am followed by 4 days off.
WHERE YOU’LL WORK?
You'll be based at our Whittlesey plant in Peterborough. If you’ve spotted our three wind turbines, then you’ll know where we are! With about 350 employees on site, we’re one of our largest plants across the GB business. Our Whittlesey plant is where we make our famous French Fries as well as our chilled products, such as our Shake Shake Fries.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Agriculture
Division: GB Agriculture
Department: Agric Operations Shift C
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Whittlesey
Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd
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