Multi Skilled Engineer

Location : Nicholas & Harris, Brunel Road, Churchfields Industrial Estate, Salisbury, SP2 7PU

Shift : Monday to Friday – 24 / 7 Flexibility When Required

Salary : Competitive with Opportunities for Growth

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Technical Team as 'Quality Improvement Manager' at our Nicholas & Harris site as part of 'Finsbury Food Group'. Nicholas & Harris has over 180 years of heritage in craft baking methods. If you like artisinal, organic and speciality breads, or have special dietary preferences, our bakery in Salisbury has you covered!

We are a modernised employer offering the opportunity for occasional home working. We are a 24 hour, 7 day business, so flexibility to work occasional weekends and nights is a must when required by the business.

To be successful in this role, experience leading and managing a large team is essential, ideally within an FMCG environment. You will possess a positive, can do attitude with a vision to continually maintain and improve the highest standards throughout your day-to-day, ensuring we are delivering our nationally recognised high quality products to all of our mainstream retail customers, such as Tesco, Waitrose and Co-op, to name but a few!

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to join one of the UK’s leading bakery businesses, with great opportunities for growth and development, both at a site and group level.

This is what you’ll actually do!

As a Quality Improvement Manager, you will oversee the day to day activities of the Quality Assurance Team for quality, food and safety purposes. You will need to ensure that the correct product and quality standards are achieved to the highest standard. You will manage the product quality evaluation panels and trend the results whilst taking corrective and mitigating actions to drive quality standards.

This is a very fast paced working environment, so you will work on continuous improvement activities to maintain and improve product quality and the wider technical workstream. There will also be a requirement to support with customer and 3rd party visits and audits.

The role will require a strong factory presence to maintain standards and to seek to drive improvements, with strong people management skills and gravitas to influence colleagues and peers from different functions to continuously drive quality.

There are demands in the role of multiple customers all happening at once and translating into driving performance of the QA Team and influencing the Operational Team to 'own' product quality and to meet the correct standards.

This role is very dynamic with no two days the same, with opportunities to influence product quality and factory standards and drive change. This role can be the perfect career stepping stone into Technical Management, Process CI or Operations; whilst giving retailer facing experience.

Ideally this is you!

• Get up and go attitude
• Positive can do attitude
• High quality food safety standards
• Moral code to ensure the business does the right thing.
• Attention to detail.
• Good interpersonal skills to enable effective communication with a cross functional base team
• Self- motivated & driven
• Team player
• Customer friendly
• Inquisitive mind
• Collaborative and can bring people together to achieve a common goal
• Level 3 Food Safety & HACCP
• HND Degree in Food Science / technology related discipline

What’s in it for you!

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!