Technical Operator

Prime Appointments • Braintree, Essex • Posted June 19, 2026

About the Role

Technical Operator - Specialist Automated Production Process
Braintree | £15.00-£22.50ph

This is not a standard production operative role. We're recruiting on behalf of a long-established, specialist manufacturer supplying high-quality ingredients into the food and pharmaceutical industries, for a technically skilled Technical Operator with experience in industrial control systems (e.g. SCADA) to manage and monitor a bespoke automated production process.

Full training will be given on the specific process itself, but you'll need a solid technical foundation in control systems to pick it up, this is a genuinely unique piece of kit, not your average production line.

The Role

As Technical Operator, you'll be responsible for:

Operate and monitor computer-controlled, specialist production equipment as part of the manufacture of food ingredients
Assist in the manufacture of products to established standards of safety, output, quality and hygiene
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