Production Operative (Completing Quality & Safety tasks)

Company: Willowbrook Foods
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Location: Belfast
Job Description:

Job Title: Production Operative (Completing Quality & Safety tasks)

Reporting To: Production Supervisor / charge hand

Deputy:Production Supervisor

Selection Criteria:There are neither qualifications nor experience required to work as a Production Operative as in-house training will be given; however Candidates application should address each of the following points:

Desirable:

  • Good Manual Skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Understanding GMP
  • Understanding of work based instructions
  • Team Player
  • Numerical Skills
  • Computer Literate

Responsible For:

Ensuring that the required quality/food safety checks are completed to the required standard along side the day to day production tasks. Production tasks are listed as work instructions and trained against as per departmental training matrix.

The Quality, Food Safety checks include :-

  • Raw material receipt (ref procedure 15035
  • Prevention of Foreign Material (ref 15051)
  • Weighing (ref 15026)
  • Use by date procedure (ref 15074)

Operatives may complete one or more Quality/Food Safety checks as listed above. Each operative will be trained against a fully documented procedure or a work instruction and training records are held on file. Critical Control point training for HACCP Food safety is completed in addition.

Objective:-

To ensure all products produced on site are manufactured adhering to systems and procedures put in place by Technical Management which complies with current food safety legislation. It is recognized that everyone is responsible for Quality.

Main Duties (these vary depending on the dept in which the operative is working in):

  1. Responsible for recording all traceability data where required (dependant on dept) on the correct paperwork. This includes (this is not an exhaustive list) completing one or more of the following: final traceability records, prep and lettuce room log sheets, dispatch sheets, weight sheets, manufacturing recipe sheets, product temperature sheets. Where required traceability information must be recorded on luggage labels or on other supporting tags.
  1. Responsible for carrying out raw material quality intake checks and reporting any deviation from specification to the QA Supervisor/Goods in inspector. Helping the Goods in inspector.
  2. Responsible for weighing all products. Recording 10 every 20 mins onto the correct paperwork. Reporting to supervisor any issues/out of spec weights. Ref to Weighing procedure.
  3. To be a part of the hygiene team in cleaning lines/equipment before each product run. To complete deep cleans daily / weekly /monthly as instructed. To re-clean equipment when required following requests from production or technical management.
  4. To report any foreign body finds to production supervisor and QA and assist in their investigation. Working on inspection belts.
  5. To take and record any temperatures when instructed. Reporting any issues to the supervisor / QA.
  6. Reporting any equipment failures and issues to the supervisor. Cleaning lines after maintenance work.
  7. Responsible for following the correct allergen procedures. Ensuring all ingredients are stored in the correct manner
    1. For completing any other quality checks as requested by the supervisor / manager
    2. Reporting any suspicious actions to your chargehand / supervisor.
  8. Other reasonable duties, which are outside the normal requirements of the role but necessary to ensure the smooth running of the business as directed by the Managing Director.

This job description may be subject to change as circumstances and business needs change.

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Posted: June 22nd, 2026