Main tasks
Weighbridge
Operative
Location: Bury-St-Edmunds
Hours: Monday to Friday, 08:00 – 16:00
About the Role
As a Weighbridge
Operative, you will play a key role in ensuring the safe and efficient
intake of barley into our malting facility. You will be responsible for
coordinating deliveries, maintaining excellent customer and driver relations,
and ensuring all intake activities comply with product quality standards, food
safety requirements, and operational procedures.
Working closely with
production, hygiene, engineering, and logistics teams, you will help ensure
smooth plant operations while contributing to a safe and continuous improvement
culture.
Your Mission
- Safely manage the intake of barley in line
with quality specifications, food safety standards, operational
procedures, and efficiency targets. - Maintain positive customer and driver
relationships while ensuring intake schedules are respected. - Support production by ensuring barley
intake is completed accurately and efficiently to meet the production
plan. - Uphold intake standards, regulations,
SOPs, and quality requirements to maximize First Time Right (FTR)
performance. - Contribute to continuous improvement
initiatives and proactively identify and resolve operational issues.
Key
Responsibilities
Safety & Food
Safety
- Follow all Health & Safety, PPE, and
food safety procedures. - Identify, report, and escalate safety or food
safety risks. - Promote a safe working environment and
positive safety culture.
Hygiene
- Maintain clean and tidy work areas.
- Carry out sweeping, shoveling, grain waste
handling, and general housekeeping. - Clean the weighbridge, intake areas, and intake
pits on a daily basis.
Production &
Quality
- Manage barley intake operations to support
the production plan. - Ensure intake activities meet quality
standards, SOPs, and regulatory requirements. - Report and address any issues impacting
quality, efficiency, or performance.
Communication &
Teamwork
- Collaborate with Production, Hygiene,
Engineering, and other departments. - Maintain positive relationships with
customers, drivers, and colleagues. - Communicate operational issues effectively
and in a timely manner.
Continuous
Improvement (BOPEX)
- Support continuous improvement
initiatives. - Take a proactive approach to
problem-solving and operational excellence. - Contribute to improvements in safety,
quality, efficiency, and customer service.
Master we are looking for ?
Skills &
Experience
Essential
- Fluent in English.
- Basic IT skills.
- Strong communication and customer service
skills. - Ability to work safely and follow
procedures. - Reliable, organized, and proactive
approach to work. - Ability to perform manual tasks including
sweeping, shoveling, and handling grain waste.
Desirable
- Experience in manufacturing, food
processing, grain handling, or a similar industrial environment. - Previous weighbridge operations
experience. - Understanding of food safety and quality
standards.
Masters of Malt's treasure
Advantages
We offer an attractive salary and benefits package and as part of a global organization can offer career opportunities internationally. As Masters of Malt we want to be a great employer, focusing on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration and health and wellbeing.
We live our values, putting people at the heart of what we do.
“Strive” - our ambition is to be the best maltster that's why every day we commit to challenge ourselves to achieve the highest level.
“Care” - our strength is magnificent when we care for our earth, our colleagues and our business partners. We encourage trust, respect and treat each other with respect. We believe that Diversity makes us stronger.
“Inspire” - We adopt a long-term orientation delivering sustainable performance through innovation and digitization, becoming praised Masters of Malt.
“Explore” – thinking out of the box and embracing pioneer ideas to become a source of motivation, we like challenging the status quo to develop full potential.
The company
BOORTMALT is a global malting company with a 3 million tonnes production capacity. The group is present on 5 continents with 27 malting plants. Boortmalt's expertise is widely acknowledged by brewers, distillers, and food industries, who rely on the supply of top-quality barley malts.
The Boortmalt Group is a fully owned subsidiary of the agricultural and agribusiness cooperative Axereal. Our relationship with Axereal, Europe's largest grain cooperative, ensures us access to high-quality barley year-round.
