Overview
Mill Operator – Flixborough
Job Title: Mill Operative
Location: Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, UK
Contract and Shift details: Permanent Contract,
- Week 1 – Monday – Tuesday Days 6am-6pm, Wednesday – Friday Nights 6pm – 6am
- Week 2 – Tuesday – Saturday Days 6am-6pm
- Week 3 – Sunday – Tuesday Nights 6pm – 6am
Package includes: Salary £39,455.87 a year, plus pension contributions matched up to 10% and access to flexible benefits that support your development, wellbeing and everyday life.
The Mill Operator has an important part in supporting the mill operations process, contributing directly to the achievement of business goals, and ensuring feed safety and health standards are maintained.
Main Purpose:
Conduct various tasks including raw material intake, bulk out loading, pressing, blending, additives preparation, and hygiene maintenance to maximise efficiency, service, and feed consistency.
Responsibilities:
- Weigh and load finished product lorries with the correct feed types, conducting quality checks.
- Maintain required hygiene levels in the mill.
- Weigh raw material vehicles in and out of site, ensuring quality checks and proper routing.
- Prepare and supply hand-tip additions for blending.
- Conduct stock checks and perform press and blending operations when required.
- Undertake swabbing and sampling processes.
About you:
- Prior experience in food/agricultural/production environments
- Working with automated plant machinery
- Feed mill experience (Desirable)
- FLT License (Desirable)
Additional Information:
This is a great opportunity for someone who likes a varied role where you can get your hands dirty and be part of a small friendly team where everyone can get stuck in to get the job done. You will contribute to the success of the business by ensuring that the mill performs at its best allowing production targets to be met.
Where growth meets purpose
What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together, we’re shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.
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.
What we can offer you
- A competitive salary with annual review.
- Incentive bonus for everyone
- Matched employer pension contribution up to 10%.
- Enhanced benefit for holiday, family, carer, adoption and parental leave.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- AB Agri benefits portal offering discounts and vouchers at 100s of retailers.
- Discounts available on ABF sister company products.
- A company passionate about training, development and creating a truly inclusive culture where everyone can do their best work.
- A wide range of flexible, opt-in benefits including dental, private medical and personal travel insurance using salary sacrifice.
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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