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Join Our Team at Busy Bees – Leading Nursery Group in the UK \n As a Senior Room Leader at Busy Bees, you will oversee multiple rooms and ensure that educational strategies are seamlessly integrated across the centre. This is a leadership role where you will inspire your team to achieve the highest standards of care and learning. \n About Us Busy Bees is the UK's leading nursery group, with nearly 400 nurseries across the UK and more overseas. We are dedicated to giving every child the best start in life and are proud to have won awards for our workplace culture. At Busy Bees, we ensure that every member of our team feels heard, valued, and nurtured. \n Why Work at Busy Bees? We offer a supportive environment that empowers you to create engaging, educational spaces where children can thrive. As part of our team, you’ll be introduced to our unique Bee Curious curriculum, designed to foster curiosity and confidence in young learners. \n Our Charitable Commitment Through our partnership with BBC Children in Need, we offer fantastic opportunities for community involvement and fundraising to support children's lives. About our Nursery North Shields Rake Lane is an Ofsted rated Good nursery which is set in the quaint village of Cleadon, just north of Sunderland.The 132 place nursery boasts a unique charm with 5 bright and spacious base rooms and a homely but exceptionally equipped private garden.From the beauty of our converted building, to our NHS accredited menus and specialist dining area which promotes manners and respect, there’s a lot to love about our Cleadon nursery. Ofsted agree, rating us Outstanding in their last visit!Complimentary onsite parking provided. Busy Bees Benefits \n\n • Competitive salary \n, • Ongoing professional development and career progression \n, • Our ‘Hive’ benefits and wellbeing hub, with discounts across a huge range of retailers \n, • Up to 28 days holiday per year (including bank holidays)\n, • Your birthday off – it’s our gift to you!\n, • 50% childcare discount \n, • Enhanced family leave and return to work bonus\n, • Menopause support through Peppy \n, • Financial support through Salary Finance \n, • Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aiders\n, • Cycle to Work scheme \n, • Easy access to your workplace pension through Cushon\n, • Discounted Private Medical Insurance (PMI)\n What to Expect as a Senior Nursery Room Leader: • Ensure that educational strategies and practices are consistent across multiple rooms., • Lead the planning and delivery of activities, adapting the curriculum to meet the diverse needs of the children., • Mentor and develop Room Leaders, promoting a collaborative and high-performing team., • Oversee the wellbeing and safeguarding of children, making necessary adaptations to support children with additional needs., • Foster strong relationships with parents, keeping them informed of their child's development., • Level 3 qualification or above in early years education., • Experience in an early years setting, with supervisory or leadership experience ideally as a Senior Nursery Room Leader, Senior Nursery Room Manager or Senior Nursery Practitioner., • Strong leadership, organisational, and communication skills.

Operations Training Manager – Food Manufacturing | North East | c. £45k + benefits I’m partnering with a growing European food ingredients manufacturer to appoint a hands‑on Training Manager for their busy UK site. You’ll own site‑wide training and development, and developing this from scratch in a 24/5 operation producing dry blends and liquid sauces, moving the business from “tick‑box” training to a structured, data‑driven framework that genuinely improves safety, quality and performance. What you’ll be doing • Owning the site training strategy and building a clear, simple framework that supports operational and business priorities., • Designing and implementing skills matrices for all roles, giving full visibility of who is trained, competent and ready for progression., • Developing practical technical training for powder processing, liquid cooking/mixing, packing lines, hygiene and cleaning activities., • Leading the design and delivery of a robust induction and onboarding programme for permanent, temp and agency colleagues, with strong shopfloor follow?up and coaching., • Elevating food safety, quality and compliance training (HACCP, GMP, allergens, hygiene, BRC, CCPs) and ensuring records are always audit?ready., • Using performance, quality and safety data to identify skills gaps and target training that reduces errors, waste and downtime., • Supporting continuous improvement activity by training teams in relevant CI tools and ways of working., • Being a visible, approachable presence across all shifts in a 24/5 operation, “knitting the team together” and raising professionalism on site. About you • Experienced Training Manager or L&D Specialist from a food manufacturing or FMCG environment., • Strong grounding in food safety, GMP, HACCP and hygiene, with the confidence to train others., • Proven track record of building competency frameworks, skills matrices and multi skilling plans in an operational setting., • Comfortable designing engaging, practical training for diverse learning styles and even more comfortable delivering it on the shopfloor., • Credible, down to earth communicator who can influence without ego and build trust quickly with operators, team leaders and senior managers. What’s on offer • Salary around £45,000 plus health cash plan, pension (3% employee / 5% employer) and 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays., • The chance to shape a training function almost from scratch in a collaborative, non?political environment that is pushing against an open door for change., • A key role in a site and group that are investing for significant growth and long?term success. Key focus areas: • Building skills matrices and competency frameworks across all roles, • Designing robust inductions with real shopfloor follow‑up and coaching, • Lifting standards in food safety, GMP, HACCP, allergens and hygiene, • Driving multi‑skilling to reduce single‑point failures and increase flexibility, • Supporting continuous improvement through targeted, practical training We’re looking for someone from a food/FMCG manufacturing environment who is confident on the factory floor, great with people, and passionate about developing capability rather than just running courses. These type of opportunities do not come around often!

Baltic Recruitment are delighted to be continuing our partnering with OsecoElfab, a global manufacturer specialising in engineered rupture discs and explosion venting solutions for high-hazard industrial environments to assist with their search for a Senior Operations Manager. Overall Purpose: The Senior Operations Manager is accountable for the safe, effective and efficient delivery of OsecoElfab's products through operational excellence at the North Shields facility. This role provides leadership to the Production, Supply Chain and Facilities teams, ensuring customer demand is converted into revenue on time, with world class quality, competitive cost and optimal lead times. A core expectation of the role is to lead, develop and inspire operations teams, while creating a strong culture of curiosity, continuous improvement and learning, underpinned by Lean principles. Reporting into the VP of Global Operations, this role will work with the Board and cross functional leaders. The Senior Operations Manager translates business strategy into clear operational targets, capability plans and measurable outcomes across Safety, People Engagement, Quality, Delivery and Cost. Key Duties: Operational Leadership: Lead day to day manufacturing operations at the North Shields facility, including salaried operations leaders, supervisors and approximately 50 direct labour employees within the operations function. Own operational performance across Safety, People Engagement, Quality, Delivery, and Cost. Ensure customer requirements are clearly translated into operational priorities through cascaded goals, metrics and accountability. Be accountable for achieving monthly, half year and full year revenue targets for the North Shields operation.Continuous Improvement & Lean Excellence: Embed Lean / Six Sigma thinking into daily operations, decision making and problem solving. Develop and sustain a culture of continuous improvement, curiosity and data led learning. Lead productivity, efficiency, gross margin and overhead improvement initiatives year on year through CI activity and capital investment. Own and continuously improve SIOP, factory planning/loading and quality systems, aligned with the 3 year business plan.People & Capability: Develop high performing operations teams and future leaders through clear expectations, coaching and feedback. Create a safe, engaging and well organised working environment within the operations function. Partner cross functionally to support employee engagement, development and site wide initiatives.Quality, Governance & Execution: Lead operational readiness for new product introductions, ensuring smooth integration into production. Manage and support Quality and ISO audits relating to operations. Ensure facilities, equipment and operational assets are maintained to a high standard. Use clear metrics, visual management and reviews to monitor business health and drive corrective action. Key Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience gained through progressive responsibility in a manufacturing or operations environment. Extensive leadership experience in manufacturing operations, with responsibility for production performance, safety, quality, and delivery Proven application of Lean / Continuous Improvement methodologies (e.g. Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen) to deliver measurable operational improvements Strong people leadership capability, with experience building, developing and leading high performing operational teams Demonstrated track record of driving operational excellence through structured performance management and continuous improvement. Strong background in manufacturing, supply chain, quality or manufacturing engineering. Proven experience leading operations teams in a manufacturing environment. Lean / Six Sigma qualification or strong applied experience is essential (e.g. Green Belt, Black Belt or equivalent). Solid understanding of Sales, Inventory, Operational Planning, (SIOPs), demand planning, capacity planning, Lean manufacturing, 5S and value stream mapping. Track record of delivering measurable improvements in engagement, safety, quality, delivery and cost. Confident communicator with the ability to influence across functions and levels. Comfortable managing complexity, balancing priorities and leading change. Hands on, improvement driven leadership style. Working knowledge of MRP / ERP systems and proficiency in MS Office. The Package: Extremely competitive salary on offer, depending on level of experience. 37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday. Company pension scheme. Private health care. Life assurance. Generous bonus scheme. Additional benefits