Manufacturing and Production

CNC Operator
16th April 2024 by

We are currently recruiting for CNC operator in Darwen

Duties will include but not limited to:

Preparing and operating CNC, perform tasks such as drilling, grinding, milling etc.
Interpret engineering drawings, blueprints, and specifications to determine machining operations and set-up requirements.
Adjust machine settings and tool offsets as necessary to maintain product quality and consistency.
Inspect finished parts using precision measuring instruments, such as micrometers and gauges, to ensure compliance with customer requirements.
Follow site health and safety rules

Monday- Thursday 6am-3pm

Friday 6am-2pm

Previous experience is required

£13 negotiable if less experience.

Line Leader – Evesham
15th April 2024 by

Job Title: Process Leader (Food Production Line Leader)

Location: Kanes Food, Evesham WR11 8JS

Shift:
Days: 6:30 AM – 4:00 PM
12-hour shift, 6:00-18:00

The shift pattern is a 2-week rotation:
Week 1: 3 days work, 4 days off ; Thursday – Saturday
Week 2: 4 days work, 3 days off ; Wednesday – Saturday
Includes breaks: 2x20min and 1×30 min

Pay Rates:
£15.23 per hour Basic,
£22.85 per hour Overtime,
Weekly Pay, Overtime Available
Temp to perm – on completion of 12 weeks,
Successful candidates will be offered a permanent role, annual salary £30,190.00.

Workplace and position overview:
The factory is located in Evesham WR11 8JS. It is a modern facility specialised in the development and manufacture extensive range of washed and ready-to-eat salads, fresh stir-fry vegetable mixes, fresh noodles, prepared vegetables, stir-fry sauces, and salad dressings. The workplace offers excellent working conditions and is committed to providing the best quality of service. Employees at this facility have many years of experience and dedication to their work.
We are looking for individuals who seek permanent employment and are willing to promote and advance their careers with an experienced employer.

Key Responsibilities:

Supervise Production Process: Lead and manage a team of production line workers engaged in various stages of food processing, including chopping vegetables, weighing, packing, and labeling.
Ensure Production Targets: Collaborate with production planning and scheduling teams to meet daily, weekly, and monthly production targets (KPI). Monitor and adjust production processes as needed to optimize efficiency.
Quality Control: Ensure that Critical Control Points (CCP’s) are adhered to and followed for all processes Implement and enforce strict quality control measures to ensure that all products meet or exceed company and regulatory standards. Conduct regular inspections and address any issues promptly.
Training and Development: Train new hires and provide ongoing coaching to production line staff. Ensure that all team members are proficient in their roles and adhere to safety and quality protocols.
Safety Compliance: Uphold and enforce safety guidelines and protocols to create a safe working environment. Conduct regular safety meetings and audits to identify and address potential hazards.
Equipment Maintenance: Collaborate with maintenance teams to ensure that all machinery and equipment are properly maintained and promptly address any breakdowns or malfunctions.
Documentation: Maintain accurate production records, including output, downtime, and quality metrics. Generate reports as required by management to track performance and identify areas for improvement.
Communication: Support the Shift Manager to deliver the operational goals and objectives for the shift Foster clear communication channels between different departments, including production, quality assurance, and maintenance. Address and resolve any issues that may impact production efficiency or product quality.

Qualifications and Skills:
Please note that fully paid training will be provided, however we are seeking for a candidate with previous experience.

Proven experience in a supervisory or leadership role within a food production environment. Previous experience of FMCG chilled food environment is essential.
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and engage a diverse team.
HACCP & Food Safety trained to Level 2/3
Excellent organizational and problem-solving abilities.
Familiarity with safety protocols and the ability to enforce compliance.
Basic computer skills for record-keeping and report generation.

Benefits:

On-site canteen serving a decent menu.
Free on-site parking with electric car chargers
On-Site full-size tennis court.

Apply now for immediate starts following a successful interview as a Process Leader in Evesham. Join our team and take advantage of training, benefits, and the potential for permanent employment.

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General Operative
15th April 2024 by

We are currently recruiting for a general operative for a prestigious client based in Telford. This role has the potential of becoming permanent for the right candidate.

Working Monday to Thursday 08.00 – 15.00 Friday 08.00 – 12.00.

Based in South Telford and a driving license would be essential due to location.

Pay rate is £11.44ph with attractive pay rates and bonuses after being made permanent

Responsibilities of a General Operative:

Maintaining excellent quality throughout
Meeting all customer specifications
Following health and safety guidelines at all times
Reporting into the Production Manager
Operating heavy machinery

Requirements for a General Operator:

Ability to work independently, and part of a small team
Manual handling up to 25kg

Bonuses for a General Operator:

12 week temporary to permanent agreement for the right candidate
Free onsite parking
Holiday accrual
Pension

For more information on the General Operative, please contact Steph at Major Recruitment – Telford Branch.

We will carefully consider your application and advise you as to whether we are able to progress with your application, within 3 working days. If you do not hear from us within this time, your details will not be retained. If you’re not successful on this occasion, please continue to apply to future roles that we advertise.

Major Recruitment are an employment agency working on behalf of our clients. Should you be seeking a new permanent position, temporary assignment or contract, you will find our staff professional and courteous, and our interview process straight forward. We are located in thriving Telford and we focus on jobs in Shropshire, Staffordshire, North Wales and Wolverhampton. Major Recruitment specialise in industrial, commercial, driving and technical recruitment.

Industrial Engineer – Evesham
15th April 2024 by

Job Title: Industrial Engineer

Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Location: Kanes Food, Evesham WR11 8JS

Shift Pattern:
12 h shift 06:00-18:00
Week 1: Monday, Tuesday – work. Wednesday, Thursday – off. Friday, Saturday, Sunday – work.
Week 2: Monday, Tuesday – off. Wednesday, Thursday – work. Friday, Saturday, Sunday – off.

Salary:
£41 600 per annum
Monthly Pay

Workplace:
The factory is located in Evesham WR11 8JS. It is a modern facility specialised in the development and manufacture extensive range of washed and ready-to-eat salads, fresh stir-fry vegetable mixes, fresh noodles, prepared vegetables, stir-fry sauces, and salad dressings. The workplace offers excellent working conditions and is committed to providing the best quality of service. Employees at this facility have many years of experience and dedication to their work. We are looking for individuals who seek permanent employment and are willing to promote and advance their careers with an experienced employer.

The work environment may be chill due the nature of the factory.

About the Role:
As a Multi-Skilled Engineer at Kanes Foods you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation of our food production facilities. You will be responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing various types of equipment to minimize downtime and maximize productivity. Your expertise will encompass mechanical, electrical, and automation systems, allowing you to tackle a wide range of challenges in a dynamic manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Hygiene & Food Safety:

To ensure, in conjunction with Technical Management, that all interventions provide for safe food production.
To have an understanding of and implement HACCP principles.
To ensure that employees adhere to personal hygiene requirements.
To ensure all company policies and procedures are being adhered to in the department.
Must work to food safe standards when conducting repairs/maintenance within the food manufacturing environment

Health & Safety

To ensure, in conjunction with H&S, that all work is delivered in a safe, managed, and lawful manner and is compliant with all relevant legislation.
Must follow and ensure lock off/tag off procedures are adhered to.
To promote a safe working environment by enforcing safe task procedures within self and others
To ensure H&S rules and regulations are followed at all times.
To make on going inspections of the workplace and take immediate steps to correct unsafe and unsatisfactory conditions or procedures. Any such conditions or procedures need to be reported to the Lead Technician
To fully comply with site standards for use of PPE and also monitor and support others in maintaining a safe approach via effective PPE usage.
To play an active part in risk assessments

Communication

To actively co-operate and communicate with all company departments in the best interests of the business.
To liaise with Production, Hygiene and Technical teams to discuss and communicate issues and actions.
To communicate with equipment manufacturers and suppliers in engineering matters as required for the successful completion of duties, disseminate information to Engineering, Production and Technical colleagues as necessary.
To contribute to effective shift handovers by ensuring that all relevant and important information and details are relayed accordingly.

Admin

To undertake project work as directed by the Lead Technician and ensure that the project is completed and the outcome is reported back to the lead technician.
To ensure that paperwork is correct and up to date
To read and respond to e-mails in a timely manner

Requirements:

3 years’ experience – food manufacturing environment preferable
Possess appropriate qualifications applicable to your trade discipline
FLT licence
IPAF
Plumbing
Electrical (safety competency)
Decoration
Fabrication
Facilities
Must be highly methodical and organised in approach to preventative maintenance
Can work well within teams
Self-managing – Must be able to work under own supervision
Flexible working attitude, as you will be required to work such other hours as the company may deem necessary
Sound communication / training skills

Benefits:

Advancement opportunities
On-site canteen serving a decent menu.
Free on-site parking with electric car chargers
On-Site full-size tennis court.
There is possibility to arrange a transport from Birmingham and Evesham.

Quick and Easy Recruitment Process with an immediate start

Apply now for an opportunity to join our team as an Industrial Engineer in Evesham WR11 8JS. Experience a supportive work environment, training, and permanent employment.

INDTG

Multiskilled Engineer – Evesham
15th April 2024 by

Job Title: Multiskilled Engineer
Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Location: Kanes Food, Evesham WR11 8JS

Salary:
£41 600 per annum
Monthly Pay

The work environment may be chill due the nature of the factory.

About the Role:
As a Multi-Skilled Engineer at Kanes Foods, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation of our food production facilities. You will be responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing various types of equipment to minimize downtime and maximize productivity. Your expertise will encompass mechanical, electrical, and automation systems, allowing you to tackle a wide range of challenges in a dynamic manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities:

To deliver a successful engineering maintenance shift, with respect to OEE, via effective fault diagnosis and repair and Maintenance activities, all performed to the relevant practices and procedures which ensure the health and safety of the engineering team, the food safety of our products, and cost efficiency via engineering talent

Mechanical:

Ability to diagnose faults in a safe, controlled and effective manner
Conduct breakdown repairs in a safe and efficient manner
Work closely with the operations team to ensure equipment issues are resolved
Must be competent to conduct root cause analysis
Must be able to record findings and breakdowns and issues and communicate these to enable an improved solution
To identify areas of poor equipment performance, and working with the Lead Technician implement improvements in a controlled an measurable fashion
Must be competent to conduct Preventative Maintenance activities to a very high standard, and be able to record and relay findings and identify methods of improvement.

Electrical:

Must be able to electrically fault find to a safe, methodical and timely manner
Can conduct electrical machinery audits
To monitor and ensure that manufacturing equipment does not pose any electrical risks to personal
To identify areas of poor equipment performance, and working with the Lead Technician implement improvements in a controlled an measurable fashion
Must be competent to conduct Preventative Maintenance activities to a very high standard, and be able to record and relay findings and identify methods of improvement.

Hygiene & Food Safety:

To ensure, in conjunction with Technical Management, that all interventions provide for safe food production.
To have an understanding of and implement HACCP principles.
To ensure that employees adhere to personal hygiene requirements.
To ensure all company policies and procedures are being adhered to in the department.
Must work to food safe standards when conducting repairs/maintenance within the food manufacturing environment

Health & Safety

To ensure, in conjunction with H&S, that all work is delivered in a safe, managed, and lawful manner and is compliant with all relevant legislation.
Must follow and ensure lock off/tag off procedures are adhered to.
To promote a safe working environment by enforcing safe task procedures within self and others
To ensure H&S rules and regulations are followed at all times.
To make on going inspections of the workplace and take immediate steps to correct unsafe and unsatisfactory conditions or procedures. Any such conditions or procedures need to be reported to the Lead Technician
To fully comply with site standards for use of PPE and also monitor and support others in maintaining a safe approach via effective PPE usage.
To play an active part in risk assessments

Communication

To actively co-operate and communicate with all company departments in the best interests of the business.
To liaise with Production, Hygiene and Technical teams to discuss and communicate issues and actions.
To communicate with equipment manufacturers and suppliers in engineering matters as required for the successful completion of duties, disseminate information to Engineering, Production and Technical colleagues as necessary.
To contribute to effective shift handovers by ensuring that all relevant and important information and details are relayed accordingly.

Admin

To undertake project work as directed by the Lead Technician and ensure that the project is completed and the outcome is reported back to the lead technician.
To ensure that paperwork is correct and up to date
To read and respond to e-mails in a timely manner

Requirements:

Ideal candidate must be highly methodical and organised in approach to preventative maintenance
Ability to demonstrate excellent approach to fault finding
Cooperation and Team Working
Ability to recognize a fault and getting into the detail of machinery function and operation
Experience of machinery maintenance and fault diagnoses
Possession of appropriate qualifications applicable to your engineering discipline
Strong background in maintenance within food manufacturing environment

Benefits:

Advancement opportunities
On-site canteen serving a decent menu.
Free on-site parking with electric car chargers
On-Site full-size tennis court.
There is possibility to arrange a transport from Birmingham and Evesham.

Quick and Easy Recruitment Process with an immediate start

Apply now for an opportunity to join our team as an Industrial Engineer in Evesham WR11 8JS. Experience a supportive work environment, training, and permanent employment.

INDTG

Operations Support
12th April 2024 by

Major Recruitment Oldbury are delighted to be recruiting for a high established engineering organisation who are recruiting for an operation support person to join their busy Darlaston site. Hours of work are: Monday to Thursday 7:00 – 4:00, Friday 8:00 am – 1:00 (39 hours)

Duties and tasks will include:

Detail the necessary production equipment, raw materials (building BOM’s) and labour needs for production.
Submit reports on throughput.
Identify priority orders and plan accordingly to meet customer requirements.
Work with Management to address any issues, setbacks or quality control concerns with the production process.
Support the Purchasing team to anticipate raw material demands.
Facilitate contract review meeting, discussing new production methods or ways to reduce production costs and increase company profits, as well as taking notes and assigning tasks
Prepare, complete and file production paperwork in line with ISO 9001 quality procedures.
Other process administrative tasks relating to production planning and general operations.

Other production and / or administrative related tasks may be introduced once settled.

Candidates welcome to apply for the role will have the following:

Be able to collaborate well with others, as operations is a cross functional role. This individual will need to work with other departments, such as Engineering, Quality and Production, to coordinate and integrate production plans. There will be a strong need to build and maintain good relationships with operators to ensure smooth and timely delivery of our products.

On site parking is available

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Factory Operative
11th April 2024 by

We are currently recruiting for Factory Operatives to join a long-established manufacturing company based in Halesfield, Telford.

Hours

Day Shift

Monday – Thursday 08:00 – 16:30

Friday 08:00 – 13:00

Rotating Shift Pattern

Monday – Thursday 06:00 – 14:15

Friday 06:00 – 12:00

Monday to Thursday 14:15 – 22:30

Friday 12:00 – 18:00

Pay

£11.44 – £12.81 depending on role

This role is Temp to Perm for right candidate

Duties

Operating machinery and equipment in a factory setting
Quality checking
Assembly work
Meet production targets
Adhering to H&S Rules on Site

Previous manufacturing experience would be an advantage.

Contact Amy at Major Recruitment Telford for further details

We will carefully consider your application and advise you if we’re able to progress with your application within 3 working days. If you do not hear from us within this time, your details won’t be retained. If you’re not successful on this occasion please continue to apply to future roles we advertise.

Major Recruitment are an employment agency working on behalf of our client. Should you be seeking a new permanent position, temporary assignment or contract you will find our staff professional and courteous and our interview process straight forward. We are located in thriving Telford, and we focus on jobs in Shropshire, Staffordshire, North Wales and Wolverhampton. Major Recruitment specialise in industrial, commercial, driving and technical recruitment.

Warehouse Operative/ Container Unloader
10th April 2024 by

We have an opportunity for a Warehouse Operative/ Container Unloader, to work for a well-established Distribution company based on Stafford Park in Telford. Within this company, Warehouse Operatives typically work from Monday to Friday, from 09:00 – 17:00, for a pay rate of £11.44 per hour on an adhoc basis.

Responsibilities of a Warehouse Operative/ Container Unloader:

– Unloading lorry containers

– Sorting products

– Stacking products onto pallets

– Wrapping pallets

– Storing pallets into the relevant locations within the warehouse

– Continuously lifting products up to 25kg with care

– Following all health and safety guidance

Bonuses for a Warehouse Operative:

– Weekly Pay

– Holiday accrual

– Company pension

For more information, please call Major Recruitment – Telford Branch.

We will carefully consider your application and advise you if we are able to progress with your application within 3 working days. If you do not hear from us within this time, your details will not be retained. If you are not successful on this occasion please continue to apply to future roles we advertise.

Line Leader Quality Assurance
10th April 2024 by

We are currently recruiting for a Line Leader Quality Assurance to work fulltime Monday to Friday, on weekly rotational day shifts of 06:00 – 14:00 and 14:00 – 22:00, at an established food production company on Stafford Park. This Line Leader position offers a pay rate of £11.97 per hour, as a starting rate, and is a 13-week temporary to permanent agreement.

Critical Control Point Checks for Line Leader Quality Assurance

Metal detection Grating – Start, end and every 30 mins
Metal detection Processing – Start, end and every 30 mins
Temperature Control – Blast chilling

Finished Product Checks for Line Leader Quality Assurance

Labels – Start, middle and end
Residual Oxygen – Start, end and every 30 mins
Pack Integrity – Start, end and every 30 mins
Weight Checks – Start, end and every 30 mins

Recording live timing of product produced.

Sampling product aseptically for microbiological analysis and organoleptic analysis.

Ensure customers samples are labelled and produced correctly.

Updating traceability documentation with pallet information, production date, best before date and quantity as produced.

Printing box and pallet labels for finished products.

Assisting with packing and palletising during breaks and holidays.

QC check all finished pallets to ensure boxes have been stacked correctly.

Oversee packing of finished products to ensure any issues are identified.

Reporting any contamination issues and any non-conforming product to management.

Moving pallets to Chilled Warehouse with a pump truck.

Assisting with weekly cleaning.

Bonuses for a Line Leader Quality Assurance:

Onsite parking
Company Pension
Weekly pay for the first 13 weeks

For more information, please contact the Major Recruitment for Line Leader Quality Assurance – Telford Branch.

We will carefully consider your application and advise you as to whether we are able to progress with your application, within 3 working days. If you do not hear from us within this time, your details will not be retained. If you are not successful on this occasion, please continue to apply to future roles that we advertise.

Production Operative- rotational shifts
10th April 2024 by

Major Recruitment are recruiting for Production Operatives (Rotating Shift Pattern) for our Client in Ashton in Makerfield (WN4).

This industry leader client is currently busier than ever before and can provide a number of fresh opportunities for permanent employment

Production Operative duties will include:

Packing Products;
Labelling;
Preparing Raw Materials;
Palletising;
Machine Operating (Training will be given).

In return we offer:

Guaranteed Permanent Full Time contracts available after trial period;
Regular overtime working opportunities available, Monday to Friday & Weekends, paid at premium rates;
Benefits Package for all candidates including Discounts at major retailers, restaurants, gyms & top UK Attractions;
Full Training;
Progression within the business.

Please send your CV immediately for consideration.

Rates of Pay / Shifts:

ALL ROLES WILL BECOME PERMANENT AFTER 12 WEEKS – Based on satisfactory timekeeping, attendance & performance.

DAYS – Rotating 0600-1400 & 1400-2200 (Monday to Friday) £11.44 per hour, Over 37.5 hours

Major Recruitment are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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