General Operative

Job Details

Job Title

General Operative

Location

Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

Contract Type

Contract Full-Time

Salary

£13.84 - £13.84 per Hour

Closing Date

09/06/2024

As we continue our mission to make people happy through chocolate, we’re looking for General Operatives to join our Chocolate Manufacturing Team on a 6-month FTC night shift basis.

As a General Operative, you will pro-actively work alongside our Senior Operators to continuously improve performance to KPI’s whilst reinforcing the team ethic of Hotel Chocolat through effective communication.

You will ensure that our products are produced in line with quality specifications whilst ensuring that good manufacturing processes (GMP) are continuously maintained.

This role will follow a permanent night shift pattern of: 10pm to 6am Sunday to Thursday.

Salary: £13.84 per hour.

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….

• Continuously ensuring line efficiency.
• Placing chocolate into trays and placing the trays into boxes.
• Making pallets up with product.
• Bringing buckets of chocolate to and from the lines.
• Placing lids on moulds.
• Putting inserts into trays.
• Hand feeding flow-wrappers.
• Cleaning the lines.
• Stacking product onto moveable trolleys.
• Ensuring compliance with all Health and Safety systems whilst championing a safe working culture and environment.
• Working to and in line with production control systems.
• Support Senior Operatives when setting up the line and line changes.

Who you are…

Essential

• Basic knowledge of food hygiene and safety
• Basic knowledge of KPIs

Desirable

• Knowledge of continuous improvement skills
• Food manufacturing experience

Who are we?

We’re one of the UK’s favourite premium chocolate brands, with a range of products spanning luxury gifts, alcohol and our pioneering drinking chocolate system, the Velvetiser™.

A cacao pod takes years to grow – it can’t be rushed if it’s going to be just right for our products. The same can be said for Hotel Chocolat, which originally started as a mint production company before we realised it was luxury chocolate that we were really passionate about.

Now, we’re market leaders in the industry. What began as an online-only business grew to over 100 stores across the UK, and we’re still growing… Today, we’re multi-category, multi-channel, and multi-territory, and our customers, colleagues, cacao farmers and suppliers all benefit from the success we make together.

To learn more about us and read about our People Pledge – our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion – click here: hotelchocolat.com/uk/engaged-ethics/our-people.html