Night Shift Manager £40k Spalding, Lincs

We are seeking to recruit a Night Shift Manager to manage the manufacturing department on a shift basis within a truly fast paced and high volume chilled food manufacturing environment. The business operates within the UK Food industry providing a range of Branded and Private Label products to the UK Grocery retail market. Having a strongly customer driven approach has enabled the business to develop long term relationships with some of the UK’s leading grocery retailers which in turn ahs led to significant growth and business expansion. You will be responsible for a team of technical operators and liaise closely with the engineers within this highly automated high volume manufacturing environment. Working across the entire plant with full autonomy and responsibility on the night shift this is a critical role in leading the change management programme in Manufacturing. You will manage, motivate and lead the team to deliver the company’s business plan. On shift you will ensure handovers are effective, detailed and accurate and any non-conformities identified and reported in a timely, concise manner. Managing and reducing costs is crucial for all FMCG businesses to maintain and improve their margins in the current market. As such you will identify and support delivery of change management improvements, have an understanding of, and control, costs within budgetary limits including labour. As part of your role you will also conduct downtime analysis...

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Multi Skilled Engineer c£30k Spalding, Lincolnshire

We are seeking to recruit a Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer to support the manufacturing department on a shift basis within a truly fast paced and high volume chilled food manufacturing environment. The business operates within the UK Food industry providing a range of Branded and Private Label products to the UK Grocery retail market. Having a strongly customer driven approach has enabled the business to develop long term relationships with some of the UK’s leading grocery retailers which in turn ahs led to significant growth and business expansion. As a shift based Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer you will operate in conjunction with the Engineering Manager and Operation Manager to ensure the automated equipment runs at an optimum. This is a fantastic opportunity to work for one of the UK’s leading food manufacturers. As an apprentice trained engineer you will ideally have an electrical bias or be a mechanical engineer who also holds C&G 16th Edition or ideally 17th Edition. You will already have gained experience of supporting a high volume manufacturing operation and have a progressive and pro-active approach to engineering services. Working with highly automated plant equipment engineering as a function would be a distinct advantage as would previous experience with a food or drink environment. In addition to your apprenticeship and time served experience you will ideally have experience of working with PLCs and exposure to and...

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Quality Hygiene & Compliance Manager c£45k Northamptonshire

Quality Hygiene & Compliance Manager c£45k Northamptonshire

This is a superb opportunity to join one of the UK’s leading FMCG brands at a time of considerable investment, change and growth. As one of the nation’s favourite food brands it is critical that Weetabix maintains it’s reputation for premium quality food products across it’s full product range. Reporting to the site Business Unit Operations Manager you will be have responsibility for the Quality Assurance function on site and as such you will champion QA across all functions. On a day to day basis this will require you to take a lead within the business unit for all aspects of hygiene and food safety as well as product quality. Having already operated at a Quality Manager level within a food manufacturing or drinks industry environment you will have a clear knowledge and understanding of HACCP and BRC. Previous direct exposure to the major UK Grocery multiples and other significant customers will be hugely advantageous as will prior experience of leading audits. Within this role you will play an instrumental role in delivering compliance to BRC, Grocery Retail, legislative and internal Weetabix standards. Weetabix is an established and successful business, it is also one which recognises the need to change, evolve and improve as such we will be seeking a Quality Hygiene & Compliance Manager who will have the strength of character to question existing practices and to introduce...

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Production Planner £25-28k Suffolk

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a highly profitable, international processing and manufacturing business who are performing extremely well within the UK. Reporting to the Planning Manager you will effectively manage all production requirements, analyse production specifications and plant data to determine manufacturing processes, capacity and resource requirements and recommend best utilisation. You will also plan and schedule workflow for each work centre in accordance with established manufacturing sequences and lead times whilst also monitoring the status of various customer orders and act accordingly to maintain on time deliveries. The planning team also plan in production engineering requests for maintenance/repair services to equipment. You will be the first point of contact for all planning and production enquiries/orders requiring processing; assist with prioritising orders, critical demand and smoothing the production loads. On a weekly basis you will review contract stock ; liaise with necessary departments to meet the forecast dates and develop the relationship between sales and production in order to understand future demand. Ensure ERP and other planning tools are used to enable accurate interpretation of demand; including capacity planning, demand profiles and scenario planning. The Production Planning team is the key communicator between Customer Services and Production ensuring on time deliveries are achieved. You will have experience in production planning and scheduling in a fast paced manufacturing environment, as well as good working knowledge of Oracle or...

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Production Manager Suffolk £35-38k

Reporting directly to the Site Manufacturing Manager you will be responsible for the processing section of the manufacturing process. You will coordinate the bulking of manufactured and purchased materials and fulfil orders in an efficient and timely manner whilst leading a Continuous Improvement process across the shift to improve, optimise and make safer all processes and operations. You will also co-ordinate all training for staff in all aspects of their roles. Set the standard in good operations and strive to obtain maximum efficiencies. Keep the team informed on performance of the department. As the Production Manager you will ensure that all specified KPIs are met and where possible exceeded and where appropriate working with the Manufacturing Manager to create new KPIs. You will be required to act as the liaison between Bulking, Process, Despatch and other departments to ensure that all resources are used efficiently and all needs are met. As Production Manager you will take a lead in championing all Health Safety and Environmental issues and installing this philosophy into all of the individuals within your team. As part of the CI culture you will review, update and improve all of the SOPs and maintain accurate training records for your team so that every individual is developed and given an opportunity to improve their own performance and be part of the site succession planning. You will have previously...

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MULTI-SKILLED ENGINEER £30-35k Rotating Shift Cambridgeshire

Working for an international food manufacturing business at their main UK factory you will report to the Chief Engineer and be responsible for ensuring that all of the plant equipment is maintained and optimised. As part of the engineering team you will undertake planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and provide an efficient response to breakdowns in order to maintain optimum efficiency. You will have a professional engineering qualification, have strong electrical skills, knowledge of PLC to programming level, understanding of ammonia refrigeration plant and be proficient in diagnosing and rectifying faults mechanically across a wide range of process equipment. Reporting to the Chief Engineer your principle activities will include; performing both reactive and planned preventative maintenance (PPM) own your own initiative and against the PPM schedule and accurately recording all maintenance work. Your role is crucial to the efficient running of the factory and as such you will be required to co-ordinate between engineering maintenance, production and quality assurance (QA). The business operates to lean principles and as such you will be a key contributor to and assist in the implementation of continuous improvement (CI) plans as agreed with the Engineering Management Team. As suppliers within a truly fast paced and dynamic sector we and our customers work to high levels of expectation and as such you will be measured against a range of KPIs to help ensure that quality...

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