Gousto are on a mission to become the UK's favourite way to eat dinner!

Delicious recipes, precise ingredients & a dollop of adventure, delivered to your door. We have invested into our technology, data capability and our product to ensure the customer is at the heart of what we do. Every aspect of our business is powered by our passion.

Whether it is innovation through our recipe development, building algorithms to optimise our recipe box journey or devising strategies to reduce plastic and food waste. All our teams play a part in our amazing growth in the UK!

Our DREAM? To be the most-loved way to eat dinner, and for every meal to leave the planet better off. Gousto is changing how people shop, cook and eat food at home. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join our team!

Job Overview

To operate, set up and maintain machinery ensuring the continuous and efficient running of production. This will require working whilst line operatives are on breaks & taking breaks at different times. This is to enable the set-up or to carry out planned preventative maintenance activities, either on own initiative or in collaboration with engineers.

What you’ll do

Level 1

• Demonstrate ability to competently operate the machines
• Demonstrate ability of how the machine works
• Able to identify problems with machine or packaging & set-up to account for variation from the norm within limits.
• Set up machines (calibration, cleaning etc.) to start up production with identification and rectification of issues during start up and changeover.
• Printer settings, cleaning and fault rectification.
• Control and adjustment of basic machinery settings (e.g. speed).
• Carry out lock out / tag out procedures for energy supplies as required.
• Removal of non-electrical covers to identify issues and problems.
• Ensuring that all machinery in operation is appropriately lubricated as per engineering schedules.
• Use of pressurised air to clean machinery.

Level 2

• Demonstrate ability to do maintenance strip down, identify defects & replace parts.
• Proactive maintenance of machinery i.e. replacement of belts and bands.
• tripping and rebuilding of mechanical parts as required.
• Fix issues that might occur during the shift and inspect parts with precision and measuring tools.
• Pick face re-address capability
• Keep records of approved and defective units or final products
• Maintain maintenance activity logs
• Ability to show others machine operations, safety & maintenance competencies & outline common issues.

Level 3

• Identification of machine parts details form components & manuals to enable sourcing of replacement parts
• Working towards Qualification/Authorised to mechanically strip down machine parts & rebuild (within 6 months)
• Working towards Qualification/Authorised to electrically disconnect & reconnect like for like (within 2yrs)
• Demonstrate ability to identify & record Root Cause (RCA)
• Ability to generate training literature to train others in machine competences & carry out assessments to confirm learning.
• Supporting with delivery of key departmental KPI’s.
• Identification of down time issues
• Identification & recording of OTIF issues
• Identification, reporting & rectification of machine issues

Skills, knowledge and abilities required to be effective in this position

• Previous experience gained within a similar role preferably in FMCG environment.
• Mechanically minded with working knowledge of diverse high-speed machinery and measurement tools.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• A confident and forward thinking team player.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Flexibility and problem solving.
• Ambitious and looking to progress in a fast-paced environment.
• Understanding of production procedures and adherence to health and safety regulations (e.g. constant use of protective gear).

Our Culture

You’re a confident self-starter, able to juggle multiple projects in a dynamic, exciting and entrepreneurial environment. You’re initiative and a problem-solver with an eagle eye for detail. You’ll consistently go the extra mile to apply and achieve a high standard across everything you do.

Dream - Today’s good is tomorrow’s mediocre. We’re always looking for ways to improve Gousto, our team and ourselves.

Deliver - We understand where we can add the most value and obsess about making improvements every day.

Care - We can only achieve big things by working collaboratively. We respect different people’s skills, experience and points of view. We work as one team.