Packaging Operator 5 Shifts (all genders) in the Netherlands

• Salary between €3,800 and €4,700 gross per month (full-time, including 28.7% shift allowance), depending on experience and suitability for the position;
• A 5-shift work week, 5% year-end bonus, 8% holiday allowance, and a pension scheme;
• Travel allowance of €0.23 per km with a maximum of 30km one way. Do you live further away? We would love to discuss the possibilities;
• 209 hours of leave per year, with the possibility to buy or sell up to 40 hours;
• Attention to wellbeing and inclusion, with initiatives such as health support, employee assistance programs, and diversity initiatives;
• A bicycle plan and corporate fitness scheme.

For the recently expanded butter factory of FrieslandCampina in Lochem, we are looking for a new operator in 5-shift rotation. A large part of the production process is controlled by robots and machines; in this role, you ensure that these keep running optimally and intervene when a malfunction occurs. Thanks to your efforts, production runs smoothly — the factory doesn't run without you!

As an operator in 5-shift service, you are responsible for operating and monitoring the packaging equipment. You ensure that our butter products are filled, labeled, packaged, and palletized correctly. In doing so, you maintain continuous focus on quality, safety, and a smooth production process.

Your duties as an operator include

• Operating, monitoring, and converting packaging equipment during changing production runs;
• Emptying filling machines according to the applicable procedures;
• Performing inspections to meet the specified quality and quantity requirements;
• Ensuring proper product separation and delivering the desired product quality;
• Resolving simple (process) technical malfunctions and assisting the Technical Service with larger malfunctions and maintenance work;
• Advising the shift leader on the packaging of butter products;
• Identifying opportunities for improvement and converting these into concrete improvement proposals, both independently and together with colleagues in an improvement team.

Lochem is one of our larger production locations; Nearly 200 colleagues work with passion, craftsmanship, and kilometers of shiny steel, in 3 different factories where 10% of all milk and 55% of all cream from FrieslandCampina is processed. Every day we work with an enthusiastic team on approximately 100 different end products. From protein-rich products for the medical industry to butter and milk powder used in the production of croissants and ice cream. Take a look at our factory(ies) in Lochem

• At least MBO 3 working and thinking level, preferably in the direction of food technology or process technology;