Warehouse/Utility Operator

Job Title: Utility Operator

Location: Enstone, Oxfordshire, UK

Contract / Shift:  Permanent - Monday to Friday 07:00-16:30

ARE YOU:

• Experienced in food, agricultural, or production environments?
• Familiar with automated plant machinery and keen on maintaining high standards?
• Someone who excels in multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment?
• Looking for a role where health, safety, and efficiency are at the forefront of everything you do?

If you answered yes to these questions, we’d like to hear from you!

About the role:

As a Utility Operator, you will have an important role in the day-to-day operations of the mill.

You will be responsible for managing raw material intake, loading finished product lorries, and maintaining high hygiene standards.

Your role ensures that production processes run smoothly, efficiently, and safely, all while keeping animal welfare and feed safety as top priorities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform a variety of tasks in the milling operation including raw material intake, bulk outloading, and additive preparation.
• Weigh and load finished product lorries with accurate feed types and perform essential quality checks.
• Ensure hygiene standards in the mill meet or exceed company and regulatory requirements.
• Manage the weighing, quality checks, and routing of raw materials into appropriate storage.
• Prioritise the achievement of food safety, maintaining awareness of UFAS standards and assisting the company to exceed these requirements.
• Adhere to all health and safety regulations on-site, ensuring both personal and team compliance.

About you:

• Experience in food, agricultural, or production environments.
• Working knowledge of automated plant machinery
• Ability to balance tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Great organisational and prioritisation skills
• Experience in feed mill production (Desirable)
• Basic PC skills (Desirable)

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one. 

About us

We’re AB Agri part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.  What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you.  People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture. 

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.