Plant Based Operator
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 28, 2026. Mondelez International scores B on the Alion truth index.
Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
Bournville, the home of Cadbury in the UK, isnow recruiting Production Line Operators.
Would you like to jointhe team producing the nation's favouritechocolate,including iconic brands such as Dairy Milk, Creme Eggs, Buttons, Roses, Heroes,and Wispa?
As a key member of Manufacturing, you will utilizeLean Six Sigma autonomous and progressive maintenance standards to maintain equipment and support new innovations across the site.
How you will contribute
As an operator at Bournville, you will perform a number of key roles and tasks to ensure that we continue to make products that we are proud to share with our families, in a modern, friendly and inclusive factory environment.
As well as operating the machinery that produces the nations favourite brands, you will be responsible for ensuring we meet all of our food quality standards and you will commit to maintaining a safe working environment for you and your colleagues. On a daily basis, this means regular quality checks and having daily safety conversations with the other members of your team.
You will be required to work towards Bournville’s Integrated Lean Six Sigma (IL6S) practices initially to an AM3 standard, carrying out autonomous maintenance techniques such as Clean, Inspect and Lubricate (CIL) various items of machinery to schedule to ensure optimum performance. You will also demonstrate the necessary skills and behaviours to work towards and attain IL6S AM4 which will start to look at how, as operators, you can understand how different systems and components interact with one another and be able to identify and eliminate causes of downtime before they occur.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will be responsible for the following safety and quality systems every day:
- Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO) including understanding safety maps and identifying the different sources of potential stored energy and where and how to isolate them to make equipment safe to be worked on or during cleaning.
- Behavioural Observation Survey (BOS) and Quality Observation Survey (QOS) where you will log all your safety and quality conversations in order to make Bournville and its products as safe as possible.
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and One Point Lessons (OPLs) where you will pass on knowledge and key learnings to other members of your team to ensure best practice is applied consistently.
- Kaizens, where you will identify areas that are preventing optimal performance and suggest ways to eliminate them.
- Solvace Tags, where you will highlight issues on your plant and ensure they are resolved in a timely manner.
- Daily Management System (DMS) meetings, where you will review top losses on your plant with all key stakeholders from leadership, engineering, process and help to come up with ways to prevent them reoccurring.
Full and comprehensive training and ongoing support will be provided to help you with the above systems and responsibilities, but you will be expected to have a level of experience and knowledge in some areas as outlined below:
Required
- Previous Manufacturing experience - preferably in a fast-moving consumable goods environment or operating a production line.
- Ability to communicate effectively and professionally to achieve targets and deadlines.
- Flexible, goal-focussed approach and a will to win
- Confident communicator
- Ability to work effectively within diverse teams
- A continuous improvement mindset
- High work standards
Preferred
- Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) trained
- Lean Six Sigma/Continuous improvement trained or with working knowledge
- Maintaining equipment at basic conditions
- Technical experience
More about this role
What you need to know about this position:
This position is open to all qualified candidates, regardless of gender. We are an equal pay employer.
Work schedule:
Shift pattern may vary depending on role, however applicants would need to be able to work rotating days and nights.
The responsibilities of this position are performed within the framework of a regional business model that is defined and managed by Mondelēz Europe GmbH, Switzerland.
Business Unit Summary
Mondelēz International, Inc. empowers people to snack right in over 150 countries around the world. We are leading the future of snacking with mouth-watering iconic brands such as Oreo, belVita, LU and Ritz biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Green & Blacks, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Philadelphia and Dairylea cheese; and Maynards Bassetts, Trebor and Trident gums. Our more than 80,000 colleagues around the world are key to the success of our business. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are. Join us on our journey to continue leading the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.
Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.