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Join a market-leading food manufacturing company operating in a modern, high-tech production facility in Leicester. We’re seeking Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineers to support a growing and well-structured engineering team. This is not a firefighting role — you’ll be part of a large, well-invested factory with healthy maintenance budgets, strong processes, and a supportive team ethos. The company actively invests in its people and equipment, with a clear focus on training, career progression, and future-focused engineering improvements. If you have strong electrical or mechanical skills and enjoy working in a fast-paced but well-managed environment, this Maintenance Engineer role could be a great fit for you. Benefits: • Salary of c£59k, • Quarterly Bonus (£1,200 - £3,000 annually), • Subsidised canteen, • Staff discounts, • 23 Shifts leave + your birthday off!, • Critical Illness Cover, Salary Sacrifice Scheme for Electric Cars, Discounted gym membership, plus more…, • Deliver hands-on engineering support to keep production running smoothly, • Perform both reactive and planned maintenance, • Use CMMS system to record and track maintenance activities, • Work closely with production to meet performance goals, • Follow safety and repair best practices at all times, • Contribute to continuous improvement and cost-saving initiatives, • Time-served or apprenticeship-trained engineer, • Relevant engineering qualifications (C&G/NVQ Level 3 or ONC/HNC preferred), • Strong electrical skillset, • Previous experience in a manufacturing or production environment, • A positive, proactive mindset and a team player If you're an experienced Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer looking for a role with long-term career potential in a stable, forward-thinking company — we’d love to hear from you! Wagstaff Recruitment – Building Trusted Relationships to Create Great Opportunities

We’re Popeyes UK – and we’re here to bring the world’s best fried chicken to the UK with bold flavour, big energy, and serious southern hospitality. We’re growing fast, and we’re looking for an Assistant General Manager who’s ready to step up, lead with passion, and help us become the UK’s most loved chicken brand. What you’ll do: • Help run the restaurant and lead the team to deliver outstanding food and service, • Support your GM in building a winning plan and smashing performance goals, • Be the role model—set the tone, keep standards high, and inspire your team, • Create a warm, inclusive space where everyone feels welcome, • Take the reins when your GM is away—this is your stepping stone to future leadership, • Recruit, develop and retain top talent—you’ll know how to build a dream team, • Achievable bonus scheme, • Fast-track career growth opportunities, • Discounted gym membership & tech scheme, • Free meals on shift + discount when off, • Employee perks platform, • Referral bonus, • All training provided, • Believe great results come from great people, • Are excited by growth and ready to take the next step in your career, • Are passionate about brilliant food, guest experiences, and leading by example, • Know how to balance fun with hard work

This position involves teaching KS3 and KS4 Design & Technology, with an emphasis on engaging, practical lessons. A recruitment agency is seeking a qualified Design & Technology Teacher for a long-term role in Leicester.

A leading educational institution in Leicester is seeking a Phase Leader for Science, Design Technology and Food.

KS3 Design & Technology and Food Technology. Design & Technology Teacher / Instructor. Maintaining high standards of health & safety within workshops and food rooms.

PepsiCo is looking for a Warehouse Operative to join our Walkers site in SRDC-Leicester! Position summary: Salary: £34,727.27 per annum (inclusive of shift allowance), Benefits: 23 days holiday, Competitive Pension Scheme, PPE provided by the business, Staff discount shop, Cycle to work scheme, Subsidized Canteen, Long Service Rewards Working Hours: an average of 42 per week, working an 8 week rotational plan of 12 hour days and nights Location: Leicester SRDC-GBR, Bursom Road Walkers Snacks Distribution Ltd Leicester LE4 1EX *For certain roles, we may ask you to declare any unspent criminal convictions in accordance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 at a later stage in the recruitment process and prior to any offer of employment being made. This information will be treated in strict confidence and considered only in relation to your suitability for the role. Responsibilities: Ensure accurate picking, loading and tipping of goods for customer orders using Ride on Pallet Trucks and RDT's. Support Adhoc movements in the warehouse as and when needed, with use of Mini-mover. Ensure accurate stock counts are carried out when required as well as processing returns and Low code stock. Ensuring delivery of personal and team KPI's Ownership of stock accuracy, including pallets, timely variance resolution and identifying, investigation and resolving stock issues. Ensuring service levels for customers are maintained to a high standard with KPI targets being met/exceeded for failures/Volume fill/timeliness. Positive contribution to the site safety agenda through meeting personal safety accountabilities, input to safety tours and initiatives and involvement in resolution of actions as well as maintaining good housekeeping standards. Positive contribution to the site BRC agenda through meeting personal accountabilities, input into BRC tours and initiatives and involvement in resolution of actions. Contribution to the SRDC Lean agenda. In addition to the above core tasks, as an Advanced Skilled member of staff you would also be expected to: Ensure accurate completion of special pick tasks. Use of Fork Lift Truck to support a variety of warehouse activities. Support activities in all Goods In areas, including all Green Goods In tasks. Orange Badge Tasks. Cover when required of warehouse Ops Support roles (Warehouse tech, Yard) Shunting - (Premium rate would apply) Be able to train others on all of the above responsibilities Qualifications: Good people skills. UK driving license. Ability to analyse data on the go and make decisions based within clearly defined guidelines. Excellent examples of reliability and flexibility. Ability to work with minimal supervision and still deliver first class performance. Great attention to detail whilst working in a complex environment. Good PC Skills would be an advantage. Must be keen to succeed in a logistics operation, ideally demonstrating future potential. Why PepsiCo? PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making every day favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers and Monster Munch, to name a few! We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers around the world more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. The company generated $91 billion in net revenue in 2023. In the UK we pride ourselves on being a great place to work and in 2023 have been awarded the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality (formerly Times Top 50 Employers for Women) for the 18th year in a row and Top Employer for the 12th year in a row. We offer a competitive salary, quarterly bonus incentive, critical Illness cover, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension plus so much more. In 2024 we have enhanced our extended parental leave offering, now paying in full for 26 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks for paternity leave for those who have the respective length of service. Were also pushing our benefits to be more pep+ by offering electric cars through salary sacrifice with a partnership with Octopus Energy. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lays, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales. Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit . PepsiCo is looking for a Warehouse Operative to join our Walkers site in SRDC-Leicester! We pride ourselves on our superb work force. The people in this business genuinely care about doing a great job! We have a common goal - strive to continuously improve our business performance and our own personal development. With the majority of executive team having been promoted organically, we are continually developing and encouraging our employees to push themselves further and offer them support with their continual learning. Career progression is incredibly important to us and we provide great opportunities to grow a long term career. We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010, we value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital/civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin. To enable you to be at your best we will ensure you are provided with any physical or non-physical adjustments to support your participation in the job application and interview process. Please speak to the Recruiter directly about any support you need