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Shift Engineering Manager (Food Manufacturing) 

Employer
Burtons Biscuits Company
Location
City of Edinburgh
Salary
£Competitive
Closing date
26 May 2019

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Engineering
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

 

Shift Engineering Manager (Food Manufacturing) 

Position: Shift Engineering Manager Backshift 
Location: Edinburgh 
Job type: Full Time, Permanent 
Hours: 3pm to 11pm shift, Monday - Friday 
Salary: £Competitive 

Who Are We? 

At Burton’s Biscuits we are the home of Jammie Dodgers, Maryland Cookies and Wagon Wheels to name just a few! We are incredibly lucky to work in the world of making delicious biscuits! 

Our Vision is to have a shared Pride and Passion for baking sensational biscuits & snacks that delight our consumers, shoppers and our customers. We’re the only major biscuit manufacturer in the UK to focus solely on biscuits, making us one of the key players in the market. We employ circa 1,600 people around the UK, with the majority of our workforce being based at our three main Bakery facilities in Llantarnam, Edinburgh and Blackpool. Our head office is based in St. Albans, with a subsidiary office is located in Blackpool & smaller but equally important Bakery based in Dorset. 

We had an amazing 2018, which has included seeing Wagon Wheels featured on the Great British Bake Off and our Llantarnam site featuring on ITV4, as part of their documentary 'Made in Britain'. Along with having amazing brands, we have secured a long term agreement to allow us to manufacture a number of Mars Biscuit branded products & Cathedral City savoury snacks, we are also forming key strategic partnerships within the Retailer Private Label sector. 

In order to ensure we can continue to make fantastic biscuits, and to help us on this amazing journey, we are proud to announce that in early 2019 we completed the acquisition of a premium sweet and savoury biscuit manufacturer Thomas Fudge’s. This will only increase our baking capabilities across a number of brand new sweet & savoury categories. 

As the new home of Thomas Fudge’s premium biscuit brand, Burton’s Biscuit envisage Thomas Fudge’s as forming a key branded range across our existing product portfolio. 

What are we all about? 

Here at Burton’s Biscuit Company we pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. Our goal is to support our team in achieving their career goals. We do this by providing a working environment that offers opportunity, support, scope and pace of change. Our culture is the foundation of our business. We are fast paced, agile and fun. 

We don’t want to bore you with just a Job description about the role we want to tell you what it’s really like to work for us? Engineering is a key part of both our Edinburgh Bakery & strategically for the wider business. Due to commercial growth and having a reputation across the UK retailers as one of best biscuits manufactures out bakeries are busier than ever. This means that ensuring the reliability & efficiency of the site is a strategic commercial priority & with this has come a number of process improvement initiatives. This is a great chance to join an engineering team who are making a real difference across the business. 

What are the key ingredients needed for the role? 

- Relevant Engineering Qualification. 
- Proven experience of leading an in house engineering team, in ideally a FMCG environment to improve overall site performance. Or have worked as a lead engineer acting as a supervisor. 
- Use of continuous improvement tools and techniques. 
- Proven track record of developing high performing teams. 
- Ideally experience of working in a unionised environment. 
- Ability to think strategically to enhance site/cultural performance. 
- Detailed knowledge of using & developing MS Office products, particularly Excel. 
- Strong communication skills. 
- Ability to lead by example and Drive On shift performance. 

What do we offer in return? 

We offer a competitive salary package, company pension, 25 days holiday 

If you are looking for a new challenge in a fun, fast paced and progressive business then we have the opportunity for you!! 

If you are ready to begin a career with real bite, we would love to hear from you so apply now by clicking the link below. 

You may have experience of the following: Shift Engineering Manager, Engineer, Engineering. Shift Engineer, Engineering Manager, Manufacturing, Maintenance Manager, Senior Electrical Engineer, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Plant Maintenance, Mechanical Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Shift Engineer, Food Production, Team Leader, Supervisor etc.

Company

Who Are Burtons Biscuits?

We are the home of Jammie Dodgers, Paterson Shortbread, Maryland Cookies and Wagon Wheels to name just a few! We are incredibly lucky to work in the world of making delicious biscuits!

‘We are a more successful and fun place to work when people feel free to be themselves’.

At Burton’s we believe in the power of being authentic, being entrepreneurial and being supportive to each other to meet our common goals…oh and did we mention having fun?!

Understanding our customers is crucial to our success, so having a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers is vital.

As a business we are committed to the continuous improvement of diversity and equality in the workplace and we welcome talented individuals from all backgrounds who share our Pride and Passion for Baking Great Biscuits and snacks.

Along with having amazing brands, we have secured long term agreements to allow us to manufacture a number of sweet & savoury snacks across Mars, Cathedral City & Marmite branded products. We also have several key strategic partnerships within the Retailer Private Label sector and our proud of the amazing biscuits we bake for our customers and consumers.

Within our Burton’s group, we have 6 bakery sites across the UK, located in Blackpool, Livingston, Edinburgh, Dorset, Isle of Arran and Llantarnam, with our head office in St Albans.   In total we employ circa 2,100 people around across our locations.

Burton’s Biscuits is owned by Ferrero and we are proud to be part of such a fantastic and successful business.  The Ferrero Group operates in more than 50 Countries and their products are sold in over 170 Countries.  We are delighted to be part of the Ferrero group which represents over 377,000 employees across the world and has a consolidated turnover of €12.3 billion (2020).

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Burtons Biscuit Company
LLANTARNAM
Cwmbran
Torfaen
NP44 3YL
GB

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