Bakery Manufacturing Technician: Safety & Efficiency in Stevenage

Allied Bakeries are owned by Associated British Foods. ABF is a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group with sales of £20.1bn and 138,000 employees in 56 countries. Our sister companies in ABF UK Grocery produce products under many market-leading household brands, including Jordans, Ryvita, Pataks, Blue Dragon & Silver Spoon. We are proud of our brands: we make top 10 UK grocery brand Kingsmill as well as Allinson’s and Sunblest.

The success of our business depends on us having the right people on the team. We are incredibly passionate about our business, but it isn’t for the faint-hearted – it’s pacey and demanding so our people need to have a positive attitude and to want to work inclusively. We take massive pride in what we do, not least in how colleagues based in our bakeries and depots have one of the best safety performance records in the industry.

Our Grocery Service Centre, based near Liverpool, is a hub for transactional activity across multiple ABF companies within the ABF Grocery division. Supporting some of our well-known brands such as Kingsmill, Pataks, Blue Dragon, Jordans, Ryvita and Silver Spoon, amongst others. We deliver Shared Service activities across a wide range of disciplines including Customer Services, Consumer Care, Finance, Payroll, HR and IS.

If you’re looking to join a business that is passionate, encourages you to be the best you can be, and values its people, we’d love to hear from you.

Overview Of Role

Location: Stevenage

The role of a Manufacturing Technician is to safely and efficiently operate and optimise bakery plant and equipment. Working with others, achieve high levels of targeted performance, customer satisfaction and quality standards; this will be founded on a culture of continuous improvement, development and learning. It is expected that the jobholder will positively contribute to an environment where critical thinking and constructive challenging is the norm.

Key Accountabilities

• To deliver product quality through all systems available and others.
• To contribute to the optimization of a production plan, operating the production plant in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
• Ensure that their own and their teams development and training needs are identified and processes are consistently applied. Participate in the proactive environment of learning through relevant documentation (learning logs & 1:1 communications).
• To continuously challenge and improve manufacturing processes and encourage others to do the same.
• To actively participate and contribute to the optimisation of cross-functional working processes and procedures, which will enable bakery infrastructure standards to be maintained or improved.

Additional Accountabilities

There is an expectation that any employee within AB demonstrates a flexible and can do approach to their work and may on occasion be required to take part in other areas of the business, to provide resource and expertise as required but also to give the individual opportunity to develop their own skill base and broader knowledge.

The Right Person

Essential

• Ability to demonstrate basic engineering competencies/mechanical empathy.
• Computer Literate (understand and interact with HMI screens).
• Demonstrate a good level of Health and Food Safety awareness.
• Numerical, reading and information recording skills.

Advantageous

• An in-depth understanding and application of food hygiene/GMP/(ABSS standards).
• Understanding of baking process.
• NVQ Level 1 or Level 2 in Performing Mechanical Engineering.
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate (CIEH Level 2).
• IOSH or equivalent.
• Basic understanding of Continuous Improvement tools and techniques (EG: Fishbone, 5 Why’s, 5s etc).
• Fault finding skills.