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Specifications Technologist – Hybrid

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Specifications Technologist (hybrid)

My client a successful and well respected food manufacturer are seeking a Specifications Technologist to join their Technical department, you will take a key role in supporting the New Product Development Team and ensuring that product specifications and information is correct

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure due diligence and take into consideration time scales, company procedures, legislation and customer codes of practice
  • Ensuring that correct technical information is on correct packaging
  • Attendance at customer meetings
  • To ensure you keep up to date with current legislation and company policies
  • Ensuring that raw materials specifications are assessed according to particular standards
  • Reviewing analytical data
  • Be compliant with customer requirements
  • Support to production to provide solutions

Skills and experience;

  • Understanding of HACCP, GMP and hygiene
  • Basic understanding of Microbiology and Nutrition
  • Strong communicator
  • Analysis
  • Attention to detail
  • Good computer skills
  • Strong communicator

Qualifications

  • Degree/HND in a food or science discipline
  • 1 years+ experience in food manufacturing
  • Food safety and Hygiene Qualification
  • Days Mon- Friday, 8.30am-5pm
  • Hybrid working

Packaging Buyer

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Job Specification: Packaging Buying Manager

Location – Chester/North Wales

Salary Competitive salary and benefits.

Opportunities for career advancement.

A supportive and collaborative work environment. An equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.

Company Overview: A leading-edge supplier of branded and own label food service and retail products are seeking a dynamic and experienced Packaging Buying Manager to join their team. This role is pivotal in ensuring that packaging materials and processes across all the product ranges align with customer needs, maintain product integrity, meet legal and safety requirements, optimize efficiency and storage, enhance sustainability, and drive cost efficiencies, cost savings, and where feasible recyclability and sustainability solutions.

Job Description: The Packaging Buying Manager will oversee all aspects of the packaging department, ensuring products are packaged efficiently, safely, fit for purpose, and meet quality standards. This role demands strong leadership and great interdepartmental organizational skills, internal and supplier stakeholder management, design and process optimization expertise, adaptability in a dynamic working environment, and a focus on cost management, recyclability, and sustainability solutions reporting directly to the Marketing Manager.

NPD Project Manager

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NPD and Projects Manager

Location – Chester

Salary – Competitive salary and discretionary company performance-based bonus

Opportunities for career advancement.

Training and development programs.

A supportive and collaborative work environment.

A leading-edge supplier of branded and own label food service and retail products are seeking a dynamic and experienced NPD Project Manager to join their team.

You will play a vital role in project management developing and driving all the company projects and new product projects while collaborating across the group with various departments.

Job Description:

The NPD Project manager will be responsible for leading and managing all live active projects across the business.

This role requires strong project management skills, excellence in excel and attention to detail including excellent communication skills collaboration across the group and with various departments, and a dedication to creating high-quality products that meet customer and market demands.

Key Responsibilities: Product Development: Project Management: Supplier and Factory Collaboration: Market Analysis: Quality Control: Travel to Suppliers and Factories: Documentation Cost Management

Hygiene Manager

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My client, due to heavy investment and strong growth is seeking a Hygiene Manager.

Responsibilities:

Hygiene Management

  • Manage the hygiene team within the food production area
  • Drive continuous improvements of hygiene and cleaning standards
  • Managing and co-ordinating routine and reactive equipment and environment cleans
  • Ensure hygiene standards and cleaning operations meet company food safety and health & safety standards
  • Staff training
  • Communicate effectively with all other production departments
  • Support the technical teams and the wider management team
  • investigating and resolving microbiological product and environmental OOS results and trends
  • Be an effective part of the HACCP team
  • Manage labour, PPE, chemical costs and stocks and make cost savings where possible

Product Waste Management

  • Ensure systems and processes are effective
  • Ensure safety storage and removal of food and non-food waste without compromistion of food safety
  • Ensure the hygiene team involvement of segregation, storage and removal of food and non-food waste
  • Staff training
  • Ensure adequate hygiene resources are available
  • Track wastage and KPIs are in place

Requirements:

  • Minimum 3 years experience managing a hygiene team within a high care food production facility
  • Cleaning and management of CIP systems
  • Level 3 Food Safety and Level 2 HACCP
  • COSHH
  • IOSH certification
  • Recognised CIP qualification

Production Section Manager

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Production Section Manager

My client, a successful and well-respected manufacturing business in Shropshire, is seeking Production Section Manager to join their team.

Type of employment: Permanent
Industry: Food Manufacturing
Shift and Hours of work:

  • Sunday – Thursday / 9:30pm – 6:30am
  • Monday – Friday / 7am – 4pm

Daily Tasks and Responsibilities:

  • Being responsible for the management and development of Team Leaders and colleagues within their zones.
  • Leading your section on all food safety, health & safety and quality standards adherence.
  • Being the Section lead for customer visits and audits, ensuring effective planning, co-ordination and delivery.
  • With direction from the Production Manager, implement continuous improvement initiatives across a range of areas.
  • Carrying out line side SICs to filter information to the Production Manager for the shift SICs.
  • Utilising allocated resources within your section. Escalate shortfalls in resource, supply chain or asset reliability when required.
  • Implementing processes and procedures to ensure the effective capture of data for further analysis by senior management.
  • Ensuring consistency in the application of the company’s policies and procedures.
  • Developing and reviewing SOPs for designated areas.
  • On request, deputise for the Area Production Manager.

Benefits Package:

  • Salary DOE
  • 31 days annual leave
  • 6% Pension
  • Private medical cover
  • Life insurance
  • Career Development Opportunities

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Production Process Leader

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Production Process Leader

My client, a successful and well-respected manufacturing business in Shropshire, is seeking Production Process Leader to join their team.

Type of employment: Permanent
Industry: Food Manufacturing
Shift and Hours of work:

  • Sunday – Thursday / 9:30pm – 6:30am
  • Monday – Friday / 7am – 4pm

Daily Tasks and Responsibilities:

  • Organising and motivating production staff to ensure they are working to their full potential and the operation is effectively staffed.
  • Responsibility for ensuring that all staff including new staff are trained and developed appropriately and that relevant documentation is completed.
  • Achieving agreed quality standards and ensure the product is consistently produced to the agreed standard and specification.
  • To continually develop and improve upon production processes and be motivated in implementing new initiatives.
  • Ensuring KPI data is monitored and completed and reporting daily performance in the KPI meeting.
  • Escalating issues in a timely way through key personnel to include production schedulers.
  • Planning daily board and rota for staff.
  • Ensuring staffing issues are dealt with effectively, consistently and fairly.

Benefits Package:

  • Overtime Pay
  • Pension
  • Career Development Opportunities

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Maintence Engineer

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Maintenance Engineer

My client, a successful and well-respected manufacturing business in Shropshire, is seeking Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join their team.

Type of employment: Permanent
Industry: FMCG
Shift: Continental Shift (days & nights)

Reporting to the Engineering Team Leader you will be responsible for responding to breakdowns/reactive, and ongoing preventative maintenance of all machinery on site.

Daily Tasks and Responsibilities:

– Providing reactive and preventative maintenance (PPM’s)
– Attending to machinery breakdowns
– Fault finding processing equipment, electrical and mechanical machinery
– Installation of electrical and mechanical machinery
– Adhere to health & safety, and food safety procedures
– Maintain documentation, log all breakdowns and servicing work
– Support the preparation and processing department

Skills and Experience:

– Experience working in a fast-paced FMCG / food manufacturing environment
– Qualified to min NVQ / C&G Level3 in engineering
– 17th/18th edition – extra
– Apprenticeship – extra

Benefits Package:
– Sick Pay
– Life Cover
– Pension
– Free Parking
– Career Development Opportunities

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Machine Operator

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Machine Operators

My client, a successful and well-respected manufacturing business in Shropshire, is seeking Machine Operators to join their team.

Type of employment: Permanent
Industry: Food Manufacturing
Shift and Hours of work:

  • Sunday – Thursday / 9:30pm – 6:30am
  • Monday – Friday / 7am – 4pm

Daily Tasks and Responsibilities:

  • Measuring and classifying all raw materials in preparation for production
  • Monitoring the production process
  • Feeding the raw materials into the machinery
  • Operating the production machinery as required, such as lifting equipment and forklift trucks
  • Performing quality assurance and testing checks
  • Assembling, packing and labelling the finished goods in preparation for shipment
  • Cleaning the machinery and other parts of the production space
  • Maintaining an inventory of the goods and raw materials in the factory or warehouse
  • Noting machine faults and reporting to maintenance officers as required
  • Maintaining work areas and equipment

Benefits Package:

  • Overtime Pay
  • Pension
  • Career Development Opportunities

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HR Officer

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My client, due to heavy investment and strong growth is seeking a HR Officer.

Responsibilities:

You will develop an effective, engaging and proactive working partnership with all line managers and colleagues to ensure the provision of timely, professional and effective HR related advice within Company policy and legal requirements. The role will include but not limited too;

  • Employee Relations
  • Absence Management
  • Headcount/Recruitment
  • Communication / Engagement
  • Disciplinaries

Requirements:

  • CIPD Level 5
  • Experience of working within a manufacturing or fast paced organisation in a HR role
  • Demonstrate an up-to-date knowledge of employment law
  • HR related dicipline experience
  • Flexibilty with work pattern

Skills:

  • Excellent communication skills at all levels
  • Drive perormance and innovate new ways of working
  • Up to date experience with knowledge of Microsoft Office and HR packages
  • Attention to detail whilst working at pace with a methodical approach
  • Ability to build effective relationships with internal and external parties
  • Ability to work on own initiative
  • Ability to handle conflict/confrontation effectively
  • Time Management

Role and Benefits:

  • Mon – Fri 8am – 4.30pm (Will require to work twilight shift on 5 week rota basis)
  • 31 Days Holiday
  • 5% Pension
  • Life Insurance
  • Other benefits including staff discount, shopping perks and well being resources

Senior NPD Technologist

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NPD Technologist (New Product Development)

My client a successful and well-respected food manufacturer are seeking a Senior NPD Technologist as part of continued growth and new business wins. You work and collaborate with the NPD team from product concept to launch.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop new products – aligned with the business strategy and vision.
  • Collaborate with development projects, on time in budget.
  • Collaborate with key stakeholders and retailers.
  • Ensure product launches are met.
  • Trend analysis, recipe, raw materials sourcing, packaging and factory trials, shelf life

Skills and experience:

  • Understanding of HACCP, GMP and hygiene.
  • Basic understanding of Microbiology and Nutrition.
  • Strong communicator.
  • Experience with collaborating with a team.
  • Experience working with retailers.

Qualifications.

  • Food safety and Hygiene Qualification.
  • Days Mon- Friday, 8.00am-5pm.
  • Pension.
  • Canteen.
  • Discount App
  • Saving Scheme

Development and progression within the business and Group