Production Team Operative

Refresco, the world’s largest independent soft drinks manufacturer is seeking Production Team Operatives for our Kegworth Site. You will play an important role in making sure some of the best-known drink’s brands in the UK are manufactured to the right quality and delivered on time to our many customers. Refresco is always changing, always innovating, always growing, creating endless opportunities for you to develop and grow your career with us in the future.

About the Role

You do not need previous experience as full training will be provided. You will be part of a supportive team, led by the Production Area Manager working with colleagues who will help you settle in, find your way around and show you the ropes.

As a Production Team Operative your main tasks and duties will be:

• Operate standard machinery at a basic level - full training provided.
• Complete quality checks and record results, reporting any non-conformances.
• Work as part of a team to ensure the site is audit-ready at all times.
• Contribute to meeting team and company-wide production targets, which make a real difference to our business and our customers.

See what it is like to be part of the Refresco Kegworth team: Who we are | Refresco

Reward and Benefits

You will be paid an hourly rate of £12.05 (effective from 1st November 2023), in addition to shift allowance, which as an annual salary is £28,326.71. Your shift pattern will be 3 on 3 off – Days and Nights – 12 Hour Shifts – 6-6, In addition, you will have 2X your annual base salary life assurance, a good company pension scheme, a sports and social fund and free on-site car parking.

We also offer our employees access to GroceryAid, a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical advice and counselling to people working in the grocery industry https://www.groceryaid.org.uk/, and Perkbox, offering our employees discounts to many well-known brands https://www.perkbox.com/uk

About You

You are going to be part of the Refresco team at Kegworth so it’s important you work and communicate well with your colleagues, support them when needed, take time to understand what they do, and learn how we all contribute to achieving our goals.

As a Production Operative at Refresco Kegworth Operations, you will need to:

• Be accurate in your daily tasks and duties, paying great attention to detail.
• Be open to learn new things as you can be involved in basic engineering and quality tasks.
• Be positive and energetic, and enjoy working in a team.
• Be confident enough to put forward new ideas and suggestions.
• Be comfortable working to targets.

The Refresco Values are what has made us successful and will help us and you grow in the future. If you follow the Refresco Values, you can’t go wrong!

Find out more here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values

About Refresco

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're passionate about producing tasty, refreshing drinks but we’re thirsty for more and growing fast. We’re a global business and have invested heavily to expand our manufacturing footprint to make us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 12 billion litres from nearly 80 manufacturing plants in 13 countries and we’re only just getting started…

Our UK Business has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1800 employees producing own label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading UK supermarkets. We also manufacture many of the best-known branded drink’s such as Monster Energy, Innocent, Ocean Spray and Vimto. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles, or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards and are on the customer tables for every occasion!

Refresco are an equal opportunity employer. We are fully committed to diversity and inclusion.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £28,326.71 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free parking
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Referral programme
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Day shift
• Night shift
• Overtime

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Derby: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person