Process Operator

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 possible

We 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?