Senior Machine Operative

at  Hotel Chocolat

CLOSING DATE

11/8/2024
As we continue our mission to make people happy through chocolate, we’re looking for a Senior Machine Operative to join our Manufacturing Team on a permanent basis.
Our Senior Machine Operatives are vital in ensuring compliance with the Production Plan in supporting delivery our world-class chocolate on time and in full across our customer network.
You will support in leading an effective team, taking ownership for the production line and change overs, driving the team in completion of required plan whilst taking into consideration cost, quality and efficiency.
So what are you waiting for? If working within an ambient chocolate-filled environment sounds like somewhere you’d like to be, why not apply?
Salary: £31,492.50 per annum.
Shift Pattern: a rotating weekly shift pattern of 6am to 2pm and 2pm to 10pm, Monday to Friday.
As well as a competitive salary and a range of company benefits including enhanced maternity and paternity leave and Company pension contributions, you’ll receive 50% discount on all products, and a 70% discount for you and your guests when you stay at our Rabot Estate hideaway on the paradise island of Saint Lucia.
The onsite location for this role is at our Factory ‘Hadley Park’, in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, right in the heart of where our chocolates are made and where weekly, we can produce between 4 to 6 million of the chocolates we all know and love.
Hadley Park is just 5 minutes off the A141 and 1.3 miles from Huntingdon train station, with direct rail links to London King’s Cross.
What you’ll be doing….

Proactive:

• Setting up machinery, including but not limited to, changing over change parts of on the lines. You will work with Wolf/Copper Panners, K1 CAD, K1 Auto-Demoulding, K3 Shell Depositor and Cold Press, K3 CAP Depositor, K3 CAD Depositor, Fuji, Fuji2, K3FW, K4 Depositor, K5/Puddles Depositor, Enrobers, (INSERT VEL POS).
• Working collaboratively with other departments to ensure that all required items are available and ready to support the smooth efficient running of the lines i.e., Machinery/ ingredients / Packaging.
• Communicating any shortages and discrepancies to your line manager on time to support plan completion.
• Ensuring that plan delivered on time and to costed expectation or better with targeted quality loss of less than 1% and delivering Right First-Time products.

Please refer the Job description for details