Mill Operative - ABN

Job Title: Mill Operative 

Location: Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, UK

Shift Patterns – 5-5-4 days and nights rotating weekly.

Have you got experience of working in a production, feed mill or agricultural/farming environment and looking for an opportunity to join a small team as part of a bigger well-established business?

If so, join us now!

As a Mill Operative you will be responsible to carry out the day-to-day operation of the mill production plant, equipment, and processes from raw material intake to out loading. Maximise efficiency, service and feed consistency while ensuring that feed safety and health and safety are never compromised.  

Other responsibilities include:

• Production of finished product to the defined quality standard
• Completion of the daily production plan as part of the team
• Achieve Hygiene levels to the required standards within their area & the site.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety and Environmental Law and Policy while seeking to continuously improve in these areas.
• Liaise with site management team to provide accurate information to allow effective raw material deliveries, stock control and to ensure production and feed deliveries are effectively aligned.
• Liaise with site maintenance teams to ensure plant is effectively maintained. • Support stock takes. • Responsible for their own and their colleagues Health & Safety within the production areas

This is a great opportunity for someone who likes a varied role where you can get your hands dirty and be part of a small friendly team where everyone can get stuck in to get the job done. You will contribute to the growth of the business by ensuring that the mill performs at its best allowing production targets to be met.

To be effective we are looking for some of the following knowledge, skills, and experience:

• Prior experience in food/agricultural/production environments (Essential)
• Working with automated plant machinery (Essential)
• Demonstrated ability to prioritise tasks in a busy environment. (Essential)
• Lean Manufacturing experience (Desirable)
• Distribution methods (Desirable)
• Organisation/prioritisation skills (Essential)
• 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

ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division 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