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The Oval Partnership are supporting a leading FMCG chilled foods manufacturer to recruit an NPD Process Technologist, to be the vital link between the development kitchens and the manufacturing site. This role is perfect for a highly organised, passionate individual who thrives on the challenge of scaling a chef’s vision while maintaining the dish quality, consistency and commercial viability. A new role created due to growth and reporting to a Development Manager, the NPD Process Technologist will manage projects from concept through to delivery, ensuring a smooth and effective process. NPD Process Technologist duties include: Plan and execute all production trials for new and existing lines, ensuring they run within the agreed critical path. Effective data capture during trials to determine accurate methodology, yield information, and associated labour. This includes ensuring all costings are accurate and updated on the system at each stage of development. Carry out all required validations, including testing food over complete shelf life (fresh and frozen), completing transit tests, and coordinating micro and nutritional samples. Ensure all documentation meets HACCP, BRC, and retailer standards. Be the primary technical problem solver for business-as-usual issues, batch size changes, and ingredient challenges. The Person: Technical Grit Meets Culinary Enthusiasm Proven hands-on experience in an NPD or Process role within a food manufacturing environment, ideally ready meals/chilled food. Qualifications: Food Science or a food-related degree, with current Food Safety Level 2 and HACCP Level 2 certification. Confident in making decisions and executing actions, you are "can-do" person who is happy to break the mould and trusts your own intuition. Proven experience engaging and achieving required outcomes through collaboration and influence at all organizational levels. Fulll rights to live and work in the UK without the need for Visa sponsrship now or in the future. Application via CV

Job Title: Technical Manager (Hybrid) Location: Unit 7a, Odhams Trading Estate, St Albans Road, Watford, WD24 7RY Salary: Competitive Job Type: Permanent, Full Time. 40 hours per week, with core office hours of 08:30-17:00, Monday to Friday, including a 30-minute lunch break. The role is hybrid, with an average requirement to work from the office a minimum of 3 days per week. Office days will need to remain flexible to meet business and operational requirements. We are looking for an experienced and commercially minded Technical Manager to lead our technical agenda and ensure Vegetarian Express continues to meet all relevant food safety, quality, regulatory and customer requirements across the production, storage and distribution of our products. This is a key role within our Operations function, with responsibility for maintaining technical integrity across the business, leading the Technical/QA function, and ensuring we remain audit-ready and compliant. You will play a critical role in protecting our customers, our products and our reputation, while supporting innovation, business growth and continuous improvement. You'll be a hands-on technical leader who is equally comfortable working on the operational floor, engaging with suppliers and customers, and presenting technical performance and risk to senior leadership. Key Responsibilities: Certification, compliance and audit readiness; Own and deliver BRCGS and other external certification programmes, including gap analysis, corrective action planning, documentation, training, audit management and continuous improvement activity. Lead the response to customer audit non-conformances, including root cause analysis, corrective and preventive action, and close-out with customer technical teams. Act as the primary technical contact for customer audits, third-party auditors and enforcement authorities Maintain permanent audit readiness across the site Provide technical leadership for own-brand conversion, packaging and product compliance projects. Food safety, quality systems and technical governance; Own, develop and maintain the HACCP plan, ensuring risk assessments are current and operationally embedded Build and maintain the quality management system, including specifications, traceability, labelling compliance, supplier approval and raw material risk profiling Develop, implement and maintain accurate product specifications. Provide expert oversight of allergen management and controls across a multi-temperature environment Establish and manage testing regimes, product verification, shelf-life validation and environmental monitoring Investigate customer and supplier complaints and non-conformances, driving corrective action and trend analysis Ensure that technical governance is in place to deliver audit compliance with respect to internal, external, legal and customer requirements Monitor departmental KPI's and develop a quality culture Provide leadership and direction to ensure that within the function people are kept engaged, focused, developed and delivering to their potential Keep up to date with relevant legislation and implement changes where required. Work closely with Supply Chain and Operations with the introduction of new raw materials, packaging materials and products Delivery of customer complaint information and other monthly information as requested by internal and external stakeholders Commercial support and continuous improvement; Support new product development and product changes from a technical and legal perspective Manage supplier technical performance and raw material specifications Provide technical support in customer onboarding and tenders, where certification and compliance are increasingly a commercial requirement Report monthly to the Director of Operations on technical KPIs, audit status, complaints and programme progress Manage the technical resource within budget and set realistic project schedules. Consistently deliver high-quality service to both internal and external stakeholders. Provide day-to-day technical support to suppliers, logistics and internal teams to maintain continuity of product and ingredient supply. Essential Qualifications & Experience: HACCP Level 3 qualification. Full clean driving licence. Proven experience as a Technical Manager, Food Safety Manager or Senior QA Manager within food manufacturing. Experience managing customer, supplier and third-party audits. Experience handling and closing out non-conformances under time pressure. Demonstrable auditing skills. Proven experience in the technical aspects of food storage and distribution. Strong working knowledge of HACCP, UK food law, food safety, labelling and allergen legislation. What We Offer: Competitive salary based on experience 33 days' holiday, including public holidays Option to purchase up to 3 additional days' annual leave Cash health plan, including money back towards dental, optical, physiotherapy and other eligible treatments Life assurance - 4 x salary Staff discount on all products Pension - 3% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution Hybrid working, with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office, with flexibility around business needs. Candidates with experience of; Senior Technical Manager, Food Technical Manager, Food Safety Manager, Senior Food Safety Manager, Technical Services Manager, Quality Manager, Senior Quality Manager, may also be considered TPBN1_UKTJ

Wembley £50,000 to £52,000 Talent Guardian is recruiting on behalf of a well established food manufacturer in Wembley. We are looking for a Multiskilled Engineer with an electrical bias to join their engineering team on days. This is a hands on maintenance role on a busy, highly automated food production site. You will be keeping the lines running, diagnosing faults properly rather than patching them, and finding the improvements that stop the same problem coming back next week. The shift Tuesday to Saturday, 07:00 to 16:30. 45 hour contract, fully site based in Wembley. • Carrying out planned preventative maintenance and reactive repairs across the production plant, • Diagnosing root cause on breakdowns and returning equipment to service as quickly as safely possible, • Recording all inspections, work carried out and faults found on the site CMMS, • Completing daily, weekly and monthly checks in and around the workshop areas, • Identifying cost effective improvements to site assets to lift efficiency and reliability, • Reporting defects and escalating to the relevant supervisor where needed, • Promoting health and safety and working to company policies and procedures throughout, • City and Guilds or NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline, • At least two years in the FMCG or food manufacturing industry, • Electrical and mechanical fault finding and repair experience in a heavy industrial or automated environment, • Hands on experience with food manufacturing equipment such as tray sealers (Proseal, PA), conveyors, mixers, can openers, oil depositors, vertical baggers, metal detectors, combi units, X-ray, labelling and date coding machines, • Experience using a CMMS system (Shire, Workmate, M-Com or similar), • Confident with Excel and Word, • Analytical, self motivated and comfortable switching between tasks as production needs change The site runs a genuine mix of equipment, so this is not a role where you do the same job every day. You will report into the Engineering Manager and have real scope to suggest improvements rather than just react to breakdowns. There is a stable, permanent engineering team here and the business invests in training. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Talent Guardian in Wembley is seeking a Multiskilled Engineer to cover an evening shift on a seasoned food production site. The role pays £52,000 to £54,000 depending on experience and runs 45 hours per week from 14:30 to 00:00, Tuesday to Saturday, on site. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will perform planned and reactive maintenance, diagnose faults, and log activity in the CMMS, ensuring a clear handover to the day team. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn. We’re looking for an experienced Supply Chain professional to join us on a 2 year FTC in a site-based role, providing cover for our Supply Chain Managers as they focus on a major systems integration programme across our sites. Starting at Greencore Heathrow, you’ll take on a 6-month rotation, before moving to another site as the programme progresses. We are looking for someone to start in role in January 2027. Over 2 years, you’ll complete 4 6-month rotations, providing valuable experience across different sites, teams and Supply Chain operations. If you enjoy variety, new challenges and making a real impact, this is a fantastic opportunity to broaden your experience while supporting our teams through an exciting period of change. As Supply Chain Manager, you willlead a supply chain team, for a manufacturing unit, to ensure that functional capability and team performance are built and directed to deliver business plans and targets. • Implement the agreed supply chain strategy to achieve budgeted business performance and build the functional capability to deliver business strategic objectives, • Provide leadership and direction to ensure that across the business the supply chain team are kept safe, engaged, focused, developed and delivering to their potential, • Promote compliance with and the improvement of safe operating policies and practices across all supply chain operations within the business, including third parties to embed a safety first culture within the working environment, • Identify new/emerging legal or customer led audit requirements and develop plans to achieve compliance, securing funds if necessary to build systems and processes to maximise adherence to policy, • Ensure forecasting, planning, material requisitions, stock control, warehousing and distribution processes are in place at all locations to ensure customer service expectations are met in the most efficient and cost effective manner, • Oversee the deployment of the Sales and Operating planning process to ensure sufficient production capacity, stocks or finished goods and raw materials, and labour are in place to meet customer orders at the best optimum cost, • Together with Purchasing, negotiate and manage third party contracts to minimise costs, build effective working relationships and ensure service delivery, • Act as the Supply Chain lead in cross functional/customer projects to ensure that all developments include collaborative working which results in successful new implementations and ongoing service improvement We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity. • Knowledge of the convenience food market, • Experience across all supply chain functions (forecasting, production planning and scheduling, standard operating procedure (SOP), inventory management, warehousing, distribution planning, distribution operations, third-party logistics management), • Experience of leading and developing teams, • Experience of working in a fast paced, growth industry or business, • Experience of working as part of a project team or on delivering change initiatives If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success. • Competitive salary andjobrelatedbenefits, • Car allowance, bonus and PMI, • Expense to future sites covered, • Holidays, • Competitive matched pension contributionsLife insurance up to 4x salary, • Companysharessave scheme, • Greencore Qualifications, • Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform, • Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform, • Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported withon the jobtraining and development opportunities to further your career. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Multiskilled Engineer - Nightshift Wembley £52,000 to £54,000 An established Wembley food manufacturer is looking for a Multiskilled Engineer with an electrical bias to cover its evening shift. Evening cover on a food production site is where good engineers earn their money. Fewer people on site, less time to wait for a second opinion, and a real premium on getting the diagnosis right first time. If you like the autonomy that comes with that, this will suit you. The shift Tuesday to Saturday, 14:30 to 00:00. 45 hour contract, fully site based in Wembley. Salary £52,000 to £54,000 per annum, depending on experience. The evening shift carries a premium over the equivalent day role. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will look after planned and reactive maintenance across the plant during evening production. That means strong diagnostics, getting to root cause quickly, and recording everything properly on the CMMS so the day team picks up a clear handover. You will also be expected to spot improvements. The business wants engineers who flag the recurring issues and suggest the fix, not just the ones who reset the machine and move on. • Planned preventative maintenance and reactive repairs across production equipment, • Fault diagnosis, root cause analysis and returning equipment to service safely and quickly, • Logging inspections, completed work and faults on the site CMMS, • Routine checks around the workshop and production areas to company schedule, • Identifying and proposing improvements to reliability and line efficiency, • Keeping tools and work areas in good order and reporting defects immediately, • Working to all site health, safety and food safety standards, • City and Guilds or NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering or similar, • Two years or more within FMCG or food manufacturing, • Solid electrical and mechanical fault finding in an automated or heavy industrial setting, • Familiarity with tray sealers (Proseal, PA), conveyors, mixers, can openers, oil depositors, vertical baggers, metal detectors, combi units, X-ray, labelling and date coding equipment, • CMMS experience (Shire, Workmate, M-Com or similar), • Good Excel and Word, • Someone who works well on their own initiative and communicates clearly at all levels, • £52,000 to £54,000 depending on experience, • Permanent, full time, 45 hours, • Tuesday to Saturday evenings, giving you Sunday and Monday off, • A stable engineering team on an established site with ongoing investment #J-18808-Ljbffr

Interim Assistant Quality Manager needed to maintain food safety and quality standards in a bakery production environment, supporting the technical team and leading quality initiatives.

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