Overview
Process Operative – Melmerby
Job Title: Process Operative
Location: Melmerby, North Yorkshire, UK
Contract & Hours – Permanent, 40-hour week, 8-hour shift per day – weekly rotating shift pattern of 6am to 2pm (days), 2pm to 10pm (afternoon) and 10pm to 6am (Nights).
Package includes Salary £32,435 per year, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, including discretionary performance related bonus and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.
Exciting times at our Melmerby site. We are entering a period of positive change and growth, with the introduction of a brand-new shift pattern to support our evolving operations.
We are recruiting permanent Process Operatives to join our Operations team and play a key role in the safe and efficient production of high-quality animal feed.
The Role:
The Process Operative is responsible for the manufacture of animal feed in piglet starter and meal forms, working to strict hygiene, quality, segregation, and feed safety standards. The role contributes directly to meeting production targets while maintaining compliance and product quality.
Key Responsibilities:
- Operate production processes in line with standard operating procedures.
- Conduct die changes and roller adjustments as required.
- Monitor product quality and report any non-conformances.
- Complete quality, production, and compliance checks and records
- Maintain hygiene standards in line with UFAS requirements.
- Understand and adhere to feed safety and cross-contamination rules.
- Report process or plant defects to the shift leader the or maintenance team.
- Provide holiday and sickness cover where trained.
- Contribute ideas to support continuous improvement initiatives.
- Comply with all site health and safety regulations.
About You:
- Consistent and open to working a rotating shift pattern that alternates on a weekly basis
- Flexible to work overtime on a as need basis to provide holiday and sickness cover or in times of high demand
- Previous experience in manufacturing within a food or feed environment
- Experience of working to quality and health and safety standards
- Effective communication skills with the ability to work with a wide range of people.
- Basic IT skills
- High level of precision and a thorough approach to tasks
- Willing to undertake additional training.
Where growth meets purpose
What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together, we’re shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.
About the Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
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