Operations Associate

Tirlán, is a world-class food and nutrition co-operative, with a diverse portfolio of quality ingredients, leading consumer and agri brands.

Tirlán owns leading brands such as Avonmore, Kilmeaden Cheese, Millac, Solmiko, Truly Grass Fed, Premier Milk, Wexford, mymilkman.ie and GAIN Animal Nutrition.

We nurture a talented team across Ireland, the US, MEA and China, delivering annual revenues of over €3 billion, and over 2,300 people to manage our network of 11 processing plants and 52 agri branches. Our purpose is to nourish the world, while safeguarding our environment for future generations.

Overview

Tirlán is offering a unique opportunity for graduates to join our 2024 Graduate Programme as an Operations Associates in our Wexford site. Graduates may be required to rotate between our sites throughout the 2 year programme.

Responsibilities

• Gain experience in best practice application of safe systems in a busy production environment.

• Problem solving and continuous improvement: Work as part of a broader production/process team and utilising team based problem solving employing lean / 6 sigma techniques through our Performance System (GPS), our platform for enterprise excellence

• Shift management: Learning the production processes

• Working with a team of experienced operators to produce product to the right first time quality, scheduling plant activities to maximise throughput to meet customer requirements

• Act as a key point of authority for all team members, and resolve any people related issues that may arise on your shift

• Act as key decision maker in relation to production impacting decisions within a shift and escalate issues to appropriate support or management personnel where necessary

• Lead the daily shift handover meeting, ensure meeting objectives are met and all participants are actively contributing.

• Maximise team understanding in relation to performance against KPIs

• Drive team performance through feedback, coaching, counselling and training team members and coordinating systems, policies, and procedures to optimise multi-skilling across the team.

Requirements

• High academic record to date in the following fields of study: Engineering, Food Science or related discipline; and expected minimum of a 2.2 honours primary degree

• Ambition to progress successfully in a career in operations and production in an exciting, ever-changing and challenging environment

• Thinks commercially and delivers customer centric solutions

• Drives collaboration and builds partnerships to meet shared objectives

• Communicates clearly and can influence at all levels

• Demonstrates a thirst for knowledge with a desire to continually learn and grow

• Analytically minded with the ability to develop creative insights and execute change

• Accessibility to move between production sites is a distinct advantage