Company Description

For more than 265 years, JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS (JDE) is inspired by its belief that it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee or tea. We are fuelled by our purpose of unleashing the possibilities of coffee and tea to create a better future. Today, our coffee & tea portfolio is available in more than 100 developed and emerging markets, through a portfolio of over 50 brands that collectively cover the entire category landscape led by leading household names such as L’OR, Jacobs, Senseo, Tassimo, Douwe Egberts, Old Town, Super, Pickwick and Moccona. JDE is part of JDE Peet’s, the world’s largest pure-play coffee and tea company, headquartered in The Netherlands.

Job Description

Shift based Packing Operator will be on a Triple alternating or Double Day shift pattern within the Packing function. Shift based Operators are part of the packing team who form a key part of the wider Manufacturing function. The Manufacturing function ensures the integration of all key business processes from the supplier to customers, from roasted coffee beans to award winning coffee.

The role will be part of the Packing team, delivering against production plans and targets. Driving a problem solving and autonomous mindset. Set in a fast-paced environment with good team ethics to deliver against Safety, Quality and Performance KPI’s and will need the flexibility to move across both operating on the packing lines and supporting material movement across site.

Working in these roles will involve the following:

Safety Health and Environment:

• Delivers a Safety Health and Environment culture and role model behaviors by following safety procedures, using Personal Protective Equipment – PPE and works calm and orderly
• Delivers a Safe and Healthy work environment by knowing the work related hazards and safety instructions
• Leads incident investigations and confronts unsafe conditions and behaviours immediately. Solves safety issues directly or through escalation
• Participate in Risk Assessment process as required
• Cooperates with team to keep work place safe, clean and well ordered. Helps colleagues to work safely
• Escalates and implements solutions to impact risks in ergonomics and working conditions
• Reports any unsafe situation, substandard, near miss, incident or defect
• Does not endanger himself or any other person under any circumstance: we work safely or we do not work”
• Stops work when safety is at risk or when in doubt how to proceed safely and involves shift leader
• Active participation in Safety discussion during Operations Performance meetings Structure – OPS meetings
• Operate forklift in a safe manner

Quality:

• Delivers a Quality culture and role model behaviors. Responsible for Quality requirements and legislation implementation and complies to legal and corporate standards & policies
• Reports issues and adherence to quality systems and processes
• Escalates and implement solutions to impact Quality losses
• Performs Quality checks according to local procedure

Leadership: 

• Contributes to team engagement plan implementation
• Onboarding of new associates in the team

Delivery & Cost:

• Implements autonomous maintenance ensuring area of ownership is within basic condition
• Implements equipment Start Up, Steady State Running & Shut Down safely according to standards with all materials required
• Implements Equipment Control such as Center lining & Run to Target
• Understands Normal / Abnormal running to deliver right quality. Follows local production area standards and policies, reports issues and adherence to production systems and processes to ensure timely decision making & escalation
• Performs production checks according to local procedure
• Reports and provides feedback on trial performance
• Uses Manufacturing Operating System - MOS tools as a daily routine to ensure key KPIs delivery that contributing to Compelling Business Need – CBN and Champions 1 Manufacturing Operating System - MOS tool
• Participates in Operations Performance meetings Structure - OPS Level 1 and ensure information transfer between the shifts
• Creates and transfers knowledge of standards
• Improves/updates standards
• Eradicates losses, identifies and executes actions on deviation from basic conditions
• Suggests and implements improvement ideas
• Keeps records updated

Qualifications

• FLT license or willingness to train
• Willingness to learn
• Good Communication skills
• Able to work as part of a team
• Able to work in a high performing fast paced environment