General Assistant – Food Production – Aviation – Trafford Park

As a General Assistant you will support the operations by completing all assigned tasks in a timely manner while ensuring quality and meeting the required targets.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Pay Rate: £11.94 – Weekly Pay.
• Shifts: 08:00 – 17:00.
• To follow all operating procedures in the course of your duties to the best of your abilities.
• To ensure the work area is kept safe and as clean as possible.
• Maintain high standards of quality, hygiene, health and safety in line with customer/company specifications
• To ensure that the standards of cleanliness and house-keeping are within the guidelines laid down in the Company procedures.
• To report all accidents and take the necessary preventative action.
• To be able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally at all levels.
• To ensure that relevant entries are made in the diary log and that the log is checked at the beginning of each shift.
• To be totally flexible within the role and within the unit departments.
• Carry out quality checks with improvement action when required.
• Assist in follow-up of Quality Assurance/Health & Safety reports.
• To take on any other duties as and when required

SPECIFIC DUTIES BY DEPARTMENT

PRODUCTION

• Pack food liners in accordance with written specification.
• From specification, accurately make up sample and product for all classes.
• Conduct temperature, quality, and product date checks.
• Seal flight canisters, trolleys and record numbers.
• Ensure correct marshalling of flights to Dispatch bays in assigned stowing order

BOND

• The receipt, handling and appropriate storage of all incoming goods and coordinating / managing stock.
• Sort and assemble bars into flights, working as a team to achieve targets
• To check trolley seals and cross check with customs paper work

DISHWASH

• General washing, sorting, assembling, packing and positioning of the aircraft equipment
• Process and strip trolleys and deliver to relevant department
• Off loading and sorting equipment/food and ensuring it is delivered to the correct processing area

STORES

• To load / off-load lorries, stack shelves and replenish equipment/food items.
• From specification, accurately palletize shipments.
• Conduct quality, and product date checks.
• Daily stock count of the list
• Stock rotation
• Clean the area

Qualifications:

Education

• Educated to High School level.

Work Experience

• Good standard of English both written and verbal
• Working knowledge of of Basic Hygiene
• Ideally some experience in a production/manufacturing/stores environment
• Experience of working in a fast-paced deadline driven environment.

Skills & Knowledge

• Good understanding of English both reading and writing
• Good Customer Service skills
• Positive attitude to work
• Able to work to tight deadlines
• Team worker.

FIRST CALL AVIATION IS ACTIVELY SUPPORTING THE RECOVERY PLAN FOR AVIATION

Aviation is what we do and with over 50 years of experience in aviation and the world of air travel or ground handling –
you are in safe hands.

First Call Aviation is part of First Call Contract Services Limited – dedicated to providing a professional service to the Aviation sector.