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Site Services Manager / Site Maintenance Manager (Manufacturing)

Employer
Burtons Biscuits Company
Location
Llantarnam, Cwmbran
Salary
Competitive Salary plus benefits to include, 25 days, company pension, free parking
Closing date
29 Oct 2020

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Operations
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Site Services Manager / Site Maintenance Manager (Manufacturing)

Location: Llantarnam Bakery

Salary: Competitive Salary plus benefits to include, 25 days, company pension, free parking

Contract: Permanent full time role

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!

Burton’s Biscuits are owned by a Private Equity Owned business Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP or Teachers for short) and form part of their $191.1 B Net Assets portfolio. Working in partnership with Teachers, has allowed Burtons Biscuits to become a forward thinking and progressive company.

Our Vision is to have a shared Pride and Passion for baking sensational biscuits and snacks that delight our consumers, shoppers and our customers. We employ circa 1,800 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 located in Blackpool and smaller but equally important sites based in Dorset, Livingston & the Isle of Arran.

Along with having amazing brands, we have secured long term agreements to allow us to manufacture a number of sweet & savoury snacks across Mars Biscuit, Cathedral City & Marmite branded products. 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 2019 we completed the acquisition of a premium sweet and savoury biscuit manufacturer Thomas Fudge’s, also in 2019 we acquired Scottish bakers Paterson Arran. This will increase our baking capabilities across a number of new sweet and savoury categories.

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?

So let’s start with ….…

Why work as part of the Burton’s Biscuit Family as our Site Services Manager?

You will manage the maintenance of the site facilities, providing service support from both internal and external resources in a timely, cost and energy efficient manner.

Work cross functionally across Engineering, Operations, Health & Safety, Planning, Stores and the Senior Factory leadership teams, you will continually develop our engineering & safety systems to improve the wellbeing of our employees, in a large and fast paced food manufacturing site.

You will play a key role to ensure the Bakery remains at an optimum level, helping the business achieve is key performance targets.

What are the key ingredients needed for the role?

You will have a time served qualification in either Electrical / Mechanical to NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent standard), along with a strong appreciation for H&S via an IOSH / NEBOSH qualification. Use of continuous improvement tools and techniques will be a key, in particular TPM would be a bonus but is not essential.

Is it highly desirable you have experience in leading a site services strategy from a FMCG environment, with management experience highly desirable as would working within a unionised environment.

Ideally we would like candidates to have any of the following: Green Belt Six Sigma, Food Safety / Hygiene qualification, Gas Duty holder GA100, Legionella awareness or Asbestos awareness. Any further educations or professional development such as a Degree, NVQ Level 4 or ILM Level 5 would be a plus.

As this is a cross functional role, the ability to build key relationships quickly across various teams is essential, excellent communication skills are a must, as you will be working within a large and busy fast paced bakery.

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.

Ref: 94569

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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