Our Current Vacancies
Production Operative - starting rate of pay £11.94 per hour
We’re looking for Production Operatives to support our continued growth and be an integral part of our manufacturing process. If you’re a dedicated, reliable, and detail-oriented individual who thrives in a team-oriented environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you. Your role will be to help produce our high-quality sauces, ensuring that every step meets our strict standards of excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist in the production of Stokes Sauces products, following recipes and specifications to maintain high-quality standards.
- Operate and support a range of production line machinery, including the cooking line, cold filling line, capping machine, sachet line, bucket line, and/or labelling line.
- Set up production line machinery for different recipes and product changes.
- Perform pre-checks and thorough cleaning tasks on production lines to ensure safety and hygiene standards.
- Engage in manual handling tasks such as weighing and loading raw materials into vessels, as well as stacking finished goods onto pallets.
- Conduct regular quality control checks and maintain accurate records.
- Assist with size changeovers and ensure efficient transitions between production runs.
- Adhere to a ‘clean as you go’ approach to maintain a tidy and safe working environment.
Required Experience and Behaviours:
- Strong attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining high-quality standards.
- Excellent timekeeping and reliability.
- A positive, proactive, and collaborative team player with a ‘can do’ attitude.
- Literate and numerate to accurately complete paperwork and record keeping.
Hours, Pay & Benefits:
- Full-time position, 37.5 hours per week, with rotating shifts: 5:45 am – 2:00 pm and 1:45 pm – 10:00 pm.
- Competitive starting hourly rate: £11.94 per hour.
- Annual leave: 22 days plus Bank Holidays and an additional day off for your Birthday.
- Benefits include a contributory company pension, life insurance, and an exclusive staff discount on Stokes Sauces products.
- Opportunity to be part of a growing and well-established company.
- Friendly, supportive team environment.
- Potential for career growth within Stokes Sauces.
If you’re passionate about quality and want to be part of a dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to join the Stokes family!
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About Us
Since 2004, we have worked with a rare passion, to refine the taste, texture, and quality of ketchups, sauces, condiments, preserves, and mayonnaise. We make all our of sauces at our ‘saucery’ on the Rendlesham Estate the heart of rural Suffolk. We now have a team of over 70, and In fact, some of us have been making sauce together for almost 20 years! There really has never been a more exciting team to join the ambitious Stokes team, with brand new factory equipment, enabling is to double our capacity, exciting new upcoming product launches and we are actively working in more sectors than ever before!
About You
As a growing family-owned business with big ideas, we are looking for determined characters with a real ‘can do’ attitude. Whilst being passionate and enthusiastic about the work you do, a lot of the work we do involves working together with multiple teams and so you will also be friendly, an excellent communicator, and show integrity in the work you do.
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