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Dairy Processing Operative Part-Time, Early Starts

Competitive hourly rate, dependent on experience.
3 days per week, 6:00am – 3:00pm
Part Time · No evenings, no weekends

About us

Low Moor Farm has been in the Errington family for three generations. We’re a working dairy farm in the Eden Valley, and we pasteurise and bottle our own milk right here on the farm — from our own herd, in our own dairy, out to our own customers.

We supply local food businesses who care where their milk comes from, including Tebay Services, Rheged, and independent shops, cafés and restaurants across Penrith and the surrounding area. Demand is growing and so are we — this is a chance to join a family business at an early stage and grow with it.

You’d be joining a team of five in the dairy who work as a team pasteurising, packaging and preparing order for deliveries on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Pasteurising days are typically Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. There is a minimum working team of three in the dairy on pasteurising days.

It’s a small team. What goes out has our name on it.

The Role

This role is to focus on operating the dairy equipment to pasteurise the milk, bottle milk in our standard products, and professionally clean the equipment following each pasteurising run.

Duties include:

• Running the pasteuriser — start-up, monitoring temperatures and flow, correct shut-down

• Bottling, capping, coding and labelling alongside the rest of the team.

• Completing production and temperature records accurately (we’ll train you)

• Full CIP clean-down of plant, tanks and lines at the end of each run, to our written schedule

• Safe handling and dosing of cleaning chemicals — full training given

• Keeping the dairy clean, tidy and inspection-ready

• Getting finished stock into the cold stores.

If you’ve worked in milk or dairy processing before, we’d love to hear from you.

You do not need dairy experience to apply. If you’ve worked in food or drink manufacturing — a bakery, a brewery, a meat plant, bottling, ready meals — or in a professional kitchen, you already understand most of what matters here: hygiene, temperature control, paperwork, and doing the same job properly every single time. We’ll teach you the dairy.

What we really need:

• Someone who is used to early starts. Our farm starts at 6am each day.

• Reliability. We are committed to delivering fresh milk three days a week to our wonderful customers.

• Care with cleaning and record-keeping — in a dairy, the clean-down matters as much as the production.

• Someone who works well in a small team — no passengers, but no egos either. When it’s busy, everyone bottles.

• Able to get on with your own part of the job once you know it, and happy to ask when you don’t.

• Basic mechanical confidence — connecting hoses, changing seals, spotting when something isn’t right.

A full driving licence and your own transport are essential.

What we offer

• A competitive hourly rate, dependent on experience. We’re happy to discuss it openly at the first phone call

• Three fixed days a week. Our pasteurising days are on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays

• Finished by 3pm. Your afternoons and evenings are your own

• No weekends

• A friendly, even-handed team — a family orientated team with a healthy balance of male and female team members

• A team of three in the dairy — you’ll never be stuck on your own with a problem, and the mornings go quicker with company

• The chance to grow with a family business that’s expanding, and to shape how the dairy runs as we get bigger

• To be part of a farm doing it the right way — our own cows, our own milk, bottled on site and sold locally, with no unnecessary miles in between

• Full training, including Level 2 Food Safety, paid for by us

• 28 days holiday including bank holidays, pro rata

• Workplace pension

To apply

Send a CV or an email telling us about yourself and your work background to info@lowmoorfarm.co.uk. If you’d rather speak on the phone, call John on 07553372885