Overview
Hygiene Operator / Utility Operator/ – Northallerton
Job Title: Hygiene Operator
Location: Northallerton, North Yorkshire, UK
Contract & Hours – Permanent, 48 hours per week – Monday – Friday
Package includes Salary £33,378.04 per year, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.
If you hold yourself to high standards, prefer engaging in active operational duties, and want to contribute to the safe, efficient running of our mill, this could be the right opportunity for you.
Why this role matters
As a Hygiene Operator, you’ll be at the heart of maintaining the highest hygiene standards across the mill. Your work directly supports feed safety, product quality, and the smooth running of our operations. You’ll help us meet internal and external standards, support continuous improvement, and contribute to a cleaner, safer, more efficient site.
This role is varied, practical, and essential. Using industrial vacuums and sprayers, degreasing equipment, and supporting broader site hygiene initiatives, you’ll improve operations each day. You’ll also have opportunities to learn additional roles on site, supporting the team when needed and helping the business remain flexible.
What you’ll be doing
- Maintaining hygiene and housekeeping standards across floors, walls, machinery, and equipment.
- Vacuuming, scraping, washing, painting, and following the site cleaning schedule.
- Working to a hygiene improvement plan and completing hygiene records.
- Handling materials using an FLT (training provided if needed).
- Reporting leaks, defects, and supporting preventative actions.
- Minimising waste and using resources responsibly.
- Supporting site meetings and contributing to continuous improvement.
- Carrying out reasonable additional duties, including holiday or night‑shift cover and weighbridge support.
What you’ll bring
Essential:
- Basic IT skills.
- Understanding of mill processes or willingness to learn.
- Ability to work safely and follow procedures.
- Good teamwork and communication skills.
- Basic maintenance awareness.
- FLT licence (or willingness to train).
- Quality‑focused mindset.
Desirable:
- Experience in feed milling or process control.
- Knowledge of ERP systems or master data.
- Familiarity with automated manufacturing processes.
- Proficiency with modern MS Office tools (e.g., Power BI).
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.
About us
ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.
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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