Job Title: Fryer Operator (12hr shifts rotating days and nights)
Department: Processing
Reports to: Process Supervisor
Overall Role Purpose
The purpose of the role is to ensure that the frying quality meets customer specifications. To protect the brand, maintain trust and deliver our legal obligation by ensuring customers food is sourced and manufactured to the food integrity requirements of each customer.
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
Operate the fryer area including all aspects of frying and freezing operation
Perform quality checks to ensure that the oil quality, frying temperature and dwell time produces products that meet customer specifications
Complete hourly process paperwork as required
Adjust frying temperature and/or time if frying quality deviates from customer specifications
Ensure that the freezer is operating at the correct speed and temperature
Conduct basic asset care of the fryer machine and maintains the cleanliness of own working area
Raise M2 items where appropriate
Oversee oil deliveries
MPC optimisation
Attend and contribute to MCS meetings
Lead fryer cleaning and boil out during sanitation
Escalate any issues affecting performance of area in a timely way to supervisor or manager
Complete a thorough handover at the end of each shift to counterpart on following shift
Ensure own work and own team’s work is compliant with relevant health and safety, environmental and GMP practices
BBS (Behavioural Based Safety) – responsible for your own safety and for those around you
Carry out sanitation duties as required, including shutdown
Remain at your workstation until relieved at shift handover
Carry out “on the job” guidance, training, support for colleagues as required
Report and escalate production problems, issues with a supervisor, manager in a timely manner
Support shift engineers with process advice on breakdown and repair
Any other reasonable task as requested by your supervisor/manager
KPI’S influenced by the role
Operational downtime
BBS
Ensure all paperwork is completed correctly
Quality complaints
Reporting oil waste / issues
Area GMP score
Managing fire risk
Contributing to MCS audit score
Qualifications
Maths and English GCSE (or equivalent).
Lamb Weston chemical training, H+S,GMP
MPC Training, Emergency Response team training
RPPT
PPT – to be completed
Experience
2-3 years’ food manufacturing experience.
SAP/SCADA experience.
COMPANY VALUES
Integrity
We do the right thing every time, even when no one is looking
Inclusion
We embrace differences and make it safe to be ourselves because we all count
Empowerment
We think like leaders and act like owners
Teamwork
see the bigger picture and become stronger by putting our heads together
Drive for results
We challenge ourselves and each other to find better ways to do things,
raising the bar for what’s possibleWe offer you a challenging job in a dynamic and growing organization in the food industry. We challenge you to grow in the same way as our company, where development is key. We thrive in a culture defined by our values: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results and Empowerment. As we say at Lamb Weston EMEA, when we see a potato, we see opportunities. What opportunities do you see?