General Operative - Brewing

The iconic Wellpark Brewery has stood in the heart of Glasgow for over 450 years and is the home of Tennent’s Direct. We are Scotland’s leading brewer-led distributor, supplying venues with all their drinks needs, from fine wine to draught beer and everything in between. Built on a culture of trust, we are committed to doing what’s best for our customers, our people and our world and we’re proud to say that our team know the Scottish hospitality industry better than anyone. With unique insights and experience, we help shape what the nation is drinking.

About the Role

To support Wellpark’s production requirements by undertaking daily / weekly / monthly activities within own department (or supporting other departments) as required in order to ensure quality, delivery and continuously-improving service for our internal and external customers.

Key Accountabilities

• With appropriate training and support, attain, maintain and enhance skills as required to contribute flexibly and effectively within Wellpark’s production team.

• Take ownership and responsibility for equipment used while carrying out role, including manual cleaning, CIP, changeovers and basic monitoring and maintenance as necessary, to ensure production delivery of the right quality, on time and at the right cost to both internal and external customers.

• Comply with all SHE, Quality, Technical and Food Safety requirements and standards. This includes undertaking risk assessments and all 5S and cleaning activities as requested by your manager.

• With appropriate training and support, attain, maintain and enhance skills as required to contribute flexibly and effectively within Wellpark’s production team.

• Take ownership and responsibility for equipment used while carrying out role, including manual cleaning, CIP, changeovers and basic monitoring and maintenance as necessary, to ensure production delivery of the right quality, on time and at the right cost to both internal and external customers.

• Comply with all SHE, Quality, Technical and Food Safety requirements and standards. This includes undertaking risk assessments and all 5S and cleaning activities as requested by your manager.

• Ensure timely and accurate completion of all documentation (signing for traceability / accountability as required) and system transactions required to operate, meet customer requirements and improve performance in the brewery.

• Raise any concerns or anomalies found whilst carrying out all duties with FLM in order to drive improvement. Wherever possible take corrective action to deal with anomalies, informing FLM of solution.

• Undertake training in line with business needs in order to continually develop skills and knowledge to meet the demands of the business now and in the future.

• Where qualified to do so, and as requested by FLM, train others to support continuous development of their skills and knowledge and to meet the demands of the business now and in the future.

• Where qualified to do so, and as requested by FLM, undertake internal audits on own or other departments.

• Attend and participate in meetings and briefings as necessary in order to ensure best practice is maintained across the site.

• When required, act as single point of contact within team in absence of FLM, to ensure departmental targets are met.

• As required, participate in improvement activities; ad hoc projects and problem-solving processes.

• Contribute to minimising downtime and maximising performance by undertaking any reasonable management request.

About you

Qualifications

• Educated to Standard Grade in Maths, English and a science-based subject essential (Grade 3 minimum).

• Educated to Higher level in a science-based subject preferable.

• HND in science-based subject advantageous.

• Other relevant qualifications advantageous (Engineering, Packaging, Logistics, Food Science, or Health and Safety based).

Skills

• Excellent team player, supporting team decisions and helping colleagues out. Able to develop strong, positive relationships with colleagues.

• Ability to deliver results by taking the initiative and taking pride in consistently delivering high quality work on time. Gets things done. Refusal to let anything get in the way of delivering a culture of continuous improvement

• Ability to self-manage by prioritising own workload based on order of importance. Can use past experience to identify problems, consider options and take decisions to reach resolution.

• Comfortable adapting to change in work plans or routines. Contributes to the generation of ideas for improvement.

• Maintains own development plan. Able to support colleagues’ development by using own knowledge / experience to give demonstrations or instruction.

Experience

• Experience of working in a production / manufacturing role – must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and be able to demonstrate an enthusiastic can do/will do approach.

• Experience of working to targets within a production environment.

• Computer Literate with knowledge of Microsoft Office Packages required.

• Site systems knowledge desirable, with the ability to interpret/ interrogate systems for product tracking or fault diagnosis