Total 4 job vacancies by Bakkavor

We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,500 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 2,900 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.
SKILLED FACTORY OPERATIVES
- DAYS / BACKS
Proud to be supported to become the best I can be.

We have a number of Skilled roles available, working on a day shift, for our Bo'ness Carriden site.

Roles include: Porters, Sealers, Potting and Cooking Operatives!

Pay:
£11.45
- £11.85 per hour – Depending on the role offered
- Weekly Paid.
Shift Patterns:
Multiple shifts to choose from, please apply and speak to our recruitment team for more details.

Location: Bo'ness, (Carriden Industrial Estate, EH51 9SJ)

Benefits Package:
31 Days Annual Leave including Bank HolidaysPensionLife AssuranceDiscounted Staff Shop (lots of items 50p or less)Flexible Benefits PackageFree Parking
Flexible Benefits Package (100's of store discounts, childcare vouchers and more!)
Overtime available at up to double time!!
£250 Refer a Friend Bonus

Proud to influence the pace of change.
We’re proud to offer you a career with real opportunity. To give you responsibility and the chance to play to your strengths as a Skilled Factory Operative. And to provide the support you need to learn, progress, and create a career you can be proud of too.

We manufacture a wide range of high-quality fresh prepared food. Which means, our production lines are non-stop. So, you’ll be kept busy checking product quality and making our food. You’ll enjoy plenty of variety too. Whether you’re creating dips, wraps, soups and sauces or cutting and bagging fruit, cutting and bagging fruit or mixing dressed salads and stir fry, you’ll be right at the heart of our fast-paced, high-pressured environment, helping us to consistently manufacture and deliver to top supermarkets across the UK.

From machine operatives to mixing operatives, technicians, QCs or key operatives, you’ll always focus on safety, speed and accuracy. Using your previous experience of food manufacturing, you’ll always aim to deliver high-quality in a right first-time environment.

We’re looking for hardworking people, willing to learn and keen to progress. Familiar with the demands of a fast-paced production environment, you’ll have a good understanding of food safety best practice.

In return for your hard work and commitment, we’ll give you the training and opportunity to develop your career and take it as far as you can, or as far as you want to go, within our large multinational company.

We’re proud to be Bakkavor.
We’re proud to deliver outstanding quality, service, and value to our customers. We’re proud to supply over 5,000 products to the world's largest retailers. And we’re proud to be a place where you can thrive, be happy and feel like you belong. Join our team and we’ll make you proud too.

You will also receive a Goody bag at your interview that includes products we make at our Bo'ness factory. A great way to sample our amazing produce that you would be helping us create should you be successful!

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We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,500 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 2,900 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.
Hygiene Section Leader – Night Shift

Location - Bakkavor Bo'ness

Salary: £28,788
- £33,258 per annum (depending on experience) Plus Shift allowance of £3,596 per annum Working Hours: 21.30 – 06.00Days of Work: Sunday
- Thursday
Benefits Package: 34 Days Annual Leave p/aPensionLife AssuranceFlexible benefits package
Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

We’re proud to offer you a career with possibilities. To encourage you to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. To know that as a valued Hygiene Section Leader we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience and encourage you to create a career you can be proud of too.

About Us:
We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food
- you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.
Our Business:Bakkavor is one of the leading providers of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.

Our Bakkavor business in Bo’ness, based near Falkirk, specialises in the production of fresh, high quality salad products working primarily with premium retailers. To give you a sense for the scale of manufacturing in Bo’ness we produce over 70million salad based meals and side dishes from our 2 manufacturing facilities employing over 1200 people in the town.

The Role:
Bakkavor Bo’ness are looking to recruit a Hygiene Section Leader to join their motivated team, and become part of the Bakkavor Group.


- Ensure agreed controls for safe working practices in relation to personnel, chemicals, processes or raw materials are adhered to
- Maintain departmental housekeeping hygiene standards as well as quality standards. Control staff personal appearance / hygiene. Ensures that all data and records and necessary maintained accurately



- Manage allocated labour resources to ensure performance standards are achieved. Manage performance and attendance of the team including first level formal written disciplinary action, performance review, and absence management (including return to work procedures).



- Ensure that the team are correctly deployed and are performing to standards in adherence to the plan. Manage breaks and shift changeover process to ensure it does not disrupt productivity and workflow



- To work within predefined cost efficiencies to maximise all resources and reduce wastage



- Ensure all staff are trained on hygiene procedures with regards to standards and Health and Safety developing a multi-skilled team. Actively coach, develop, and recruit team members to the required level of competence to encourage continuous improvement within the business.


- Encourage the Bakkavor values and a positive culture, whilst fostering good employee relations through fair, consistent and effective people management.



- Maintain effective communication between staff and management (both ways) with internal and external customers. Highlight training needs to the Days Hygiene Manager


About youYou will have good IT Skills, experience working within a hygiene/industrial cleaning team along with supervisory experience. A hands-on approach and Strong numerical, verbal and written communication skills are essential.

What you can expect from us:
When joining us you can expect a highly competitive rewards package including group pension and other flexible benefits
- alongside excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.
Proud to be Bakkavor
We’re proud to be the leading UK provider of innovative, high-quality, fresh prepared food. We’re proud to be driven by the hard work and passion of our people. And we’re proud to offer a wide range of careers full of support and opportunity. Join our team and we’ll make you proud too.

We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,500 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 2,900 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.

Lead Learning Associate
Boness
Monday to Friday
25 Days Holiday


Job Purpose:
To contribute to the site level delivery of the target Bakkavor learning experience at Bakkavor, ensuring that our employees are both compliant and provided with high quality professional learning interventions. The role holder must demonstrate strong competency across multiple functions in a demanding factory environment and exploit their passion for learning to engage and motivate employees through training.

Qualification requirements:
L&D Qualification – CIPD L3 equivalent or prepared to study

Skills, Knowledge & Behaviours:

- Is driven and has enthusiasm for L&D
- Can work at pace and is adaptable to business changes
- Good attention to detail and spots opportunities for improvement
- Has good organisational skills and can manage own time and workload with the ability to multi-task
- Have a level of resilience
- Ability to resolve issues and move matters forward
- Demonstrates strong communication skills and can influence at various levels
- Is a self-starter who is inquisitive and driven to improve
- An analytical mindset and a data centric approach
- Willingness to travel
- Proficient in conducting TNA/Gap Analysis
- Proficient in using Protean system
- People development: provide feedback, review progress, coach, mentor and support


Role Accountabilities:


- Holds responsibility for ensuring areas are fully compliant and adhering to the standards agreed by the business and its customers



- Support LM with day-to-day responsibility for site/hub budget; raising purchase orders, ensuring budget tracking data is accurate and reflects spend, liaising with sites and LA’s to ensure maximum attendance



- Support LM with Internal and external, planned and unannounced audits, and drive audit actions




- Support the LM, acting as a liaison between the larger Talent functions and site management e.g. LDP, PDP, and Levy



- Support LM’s with TNA/Gap analysis



- Support with management of TRF’s in collaboration with Stakeholders and design team



- Work directly with S&P and design team to ensure transactions are managed timely and effectively (tagging, movement of labour etc)



- Support LM with day-to-day performance management of team; absence and performance escalation to LM as required



- Contributes to an industry leading learning experience through the provision of compliance learning that instils confidence in our customers and delivering engaging learning that meets the development needs of Bakkavor site employees



- Works with the Systems and Performance team to identify learning needs for
- individual within a site and coordinates the delivery on these in line with the Learning plan and measured outcomes



- Leverages strong interpersonal skills to deliver learning with enthusiasm and authority across all available channels onsite, including classroom, on-the-line and LMS



- Provides ‘train the trainer’ learning for ‘buddies’ that provide on-the-job learning to drive consistency in the employee learning experience and ensure people are upskilled first time
- Understands and conveys the criticality of compliance learning using knowledge of SOPs, CCPs and functional subject matters in order to assess peoples’ competency in these areas against target outcomes



- Builds strong relationships with all functions operating at site level to help gain a clear understanding of their learning needs and coordinate the delivery of training – this necessitates developing strong knowledge of demand patterns i.e. peak times, turnover, seasonality, employee profile, joiners



- Feeds local knowledge into the Learning Manager to enable better cross-site visibility of learning needs and preserve consistency in the training delivery approach across the business



- Supports root cause analysis when an issue occurs so that the best solution can be identified at the appropriate scale without case by case fixes



- Acts as the interface between Learning Associates and Hub/Learning Manager, supporting with team engagement, performance, and development



- Coaches and develops Learning Associates as identified by the Hub/Learning Manager

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We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,500 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 2,900 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.
Learning Associate
- BonessCompetitive Salary Highly competitive rewards package including Group PensionExcellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor groupWe're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food
- you just didn't realise it. Because as global leaders in the fresh prepared food industry with over 19,000 employees, we create innovative products, including meals, soups, dips, salads, desserts, pizzas and bread for customers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose in the UK. Our customers include Harris Teeter and Home Chef in the US, and in China, we make food for Starbucks, Yum! and Pret. We're ambitious. We're full of ideas. And we're ready for more people who share our passion for quality to join us.A fantastic opportunity for a hands-on L&D training professional to lead on site delivery learning experiences at Bakkavor has arisen.In this busy and exciting role, you will be responsible for delivering learning interventions at our dynamic and fast paced manufacturing sites
- ensuring our employees are not only compliant when it comes to the regulatory and mandatory aspects of their role, but also engaged and motivated through your training delivery.Based in our factories for the majority of your working day
- driving engagement, building solid working relationships with key stakeholders and delivering a best-in-class training proposition, will be top of your agenda.We are looking for someone with the tenacity and resilience to join our journey of change
- as we move from Factory Trainers to Learning and Development Specialists.Main Duties

- Training delivery and competency assessment of machine usage, health & safety, manual handling and all elements of food safety
- Supporting training needs and compliance gap analysis
- Leveraging strong interpersonal skills and engaging content to deliver learning across all available channels
- Supporting site to ensure compliance with standards agreed, through the provision of learning interventions.


About YouIdeally, you will have a real flair for developing cross functional relationships and driving training best practice to ensure employees receive outstanding learning interventions and training.An FMCG background is not essential, however you will need to be ready for the challenge of working in this fast-paced ever-changing industry.If you are a dynamic and energetic training professional with the ability to drive the L&D agenda on the shop floor, this could be the perfect role for you.