We provide expert recruitment solutions for engineering and production jobs. Our knowledge and experience in this sector is second to none - after all, we have 10 years experience of working with some of the country's leading manufacturers: BAE Systems, Cadbury, Honda, Premier Foods, British Sugar.
Must Have:
1 Demonstrates a passion for food and a sense of creative flair.
2 Effective communication and presentational skills.
3 Good organisational skills.
Preferred:
1 Good knowledge of the market.
2 Understanding of factory processes and capabilities.
3 Computer skills.
Role Accountabilities:
1 Provide specialist knowledge to enable the Business to exploit manufacturing, NPD and commercial advantage whilst ensuring the required standards of Food Safety, Quality and Legality are met.
2 Support the development of new and existing products by providing the necessary information as required.
3 Support the trial process as required to ensure the timely launch of products.
4 Understand the wants and needs of both internal and external customers and support delivery of our commitments.
5 Present facts and ideas clearly and accurately to customers.
6 Ensure an overall awareness of comparative products from all major retailers.
7 Plan, organise and control resources to support the delivery of concepts and launches to an agreed quality and timescale.
8 Monitors product quality of new and existing products for the customers that they are responsible for through weekly benchmarking. Responsible for collecting samples from store.
9 Assist Development Chefs where necessary in assembling samples for submission to customers, hosting customer activities and any other activities as required within the department.
10 Maintain product files to include all relevant documents from concept to launch.
Customer Care:
Quality, value and service
§ Identifies and adopts industry best practice.
§ Seeks feedback from the customer on performance and identifies areas for improvement.
§ Identifies day to day customer service issues and takes appropriate action.
§ Monitors KPI’s and takes necessary corrective action.
§ Makes the effort to provide solutions to customer issues.
§ Identifies customer requirements with the customer and develops plans to meet them.
§ Is aware of market trends and developments and highlights implications for the business.
§ Routinely challenges current practices to identify and deliver value improvements and solutions.
Customer Relationships
§ Understands and anticipates future customer expectations by delivering “right first time”
§ Develops strong working relationships and has regular contact with the customer.
§ Listens and seeks to understand and satisfy the customer’s changing needs, whilst maintaining focus on the clients long term strategy.
§ Responds to internal and external customer queries/requests promptly.
§ Builds a personal rapport with opposite number both within the business and externally.
§ Is able to challenge customer’s organisation and maintains clear and frequent communication channels.
§ Develops relationships within own business unit and cross functionally in the Group.
Can Do:
Personal initiative and the encouragement of others
§ Confident to ‘have a go’ when outcome is uncertain – and to make it work when it goes wrong.
§ Often sets goals that some people see as unrealistic.
§ Is supportive of others taking calculated risks ad therefore avoids a blame culture.
§ Personally evaluates risk and makes contingency plans accordingly.
§ Gets the right resources (people, capital, equipment etc.) and organises them to achieve set goals.
§ Monitors progress of self and others by identifying and fulfilling development needs.
§ Adopts a practical, no-nonsense approach: “what can we do to sort this out?”
§ Stays focussed on the end result expected achieve.
§ Encourages others to fulfil their potential and to therefore sometimes achieve outstanding results.
§ Delegates responsibilities whilst maintaining support and focus.
Teamwork:
§ Encourages personal growth within a supportive and honest culture.
§ Speaks well of others, recognising their strengths and supporting their development needs.
§ Always gives credit and genuine praise where it is due.
§ Considers others when making decisions.
§ Treats people as equals and generates a rapport built on trust and honesty.
§ Works comfortably within a team but identifies poor performance fairly and consistently and acts appropriately.
§ Is known as a reliable individual who commits and delivers for the team.
§ Gives responsibility to others and trusts them to deliver, whilst maintaining a “watching brief”
§ Respects contributions from other functions/specialisms and works within their agenda.
Communication, ethics and integrity
§ Contributes own views and listens to views of others in team debates and meetings.
§ Openly and honestly discusses and debates business issues with others.
§ Invites feedback on briefing notes and communicates further developments and information.
§ Willingly accepts and acts positively upon constructive criticism.
§ Has a genuine open door policy and is seen as approachable and responsive to issues and concerns.
§ Involves others appropriately in decision making and communicates the outcome clearly.
§ Has regular communication with all levels of staff and actively promotes 2 way discussions.
This vacancy is being advertised by NCR (New Century Recruitment Ltd). The services advertised by NCR are those of an Employment Agency.
Must Have:
1 Demonstrates a passion for food and a sense of creative flair.
2 Effective communication and presentational skills.
3 Good organisational skills.
Preferred:
1 Good knowledge of the market.
2 Understanding of factory processes and capabilities.
3 Computer skills.
Role Accountabilities:
1 Provide specialist knowledge to enable the Business to exploit manufacturing, NPD and commercial advantage whilst ensuring the required standards of Food Safety, Quality and Legality are met.
2 Support the development of new and existing products by providing the necessary information as required.
3 Support the trial process as required to ensure the timely launch of products.
4 Understand the wants and needs of both internal and external customers and support delivery of our commitments.
5 Present facts and ideas clearly and accurately to customers.
6 Ensure an overall awareness of comparative products from all major retailers.
7 Plan, organise and control resources to support the delivery of concepts and launches to an agreed quality and timescale.
8 Monitors product quality of new and existing products for the customers that they are responsible for through weekly benchmarking. Responsible for collecting samples from store.
9 Assist Development Chefs where necessary in assembling samples for submission to customers, hosting customer activities and any other activities as required within the department.
10 Maintain product files to include all relevant documents from concept to launch.
Customer Care:
Quality, value and service
§ Identifies and adopts industry best practice.
§ Seeks feedback from the customer on performance and identifies areas for improvement.
§ Identifies day to day customer service issues and takes appropriate action.
§ Monitors KPI’s and takes necessary corrective action.
§ Makes the effort to provide solutions to customer issues.
§ Identifies customer requirements with the customer and develops plans to meet them.
§ Is aware of market trends and developments and highlights implications for the business.
§ Routinely challenges current practices to identify and deliver value improvements and solutions.
Customer Relationships
§ Understands and anticipates future customer expectations by delivering “right first time”
§ Develops strong working relationships and has regular contact with the customer.
§ Listens and seeks to understand and satisfy the customer’s changing needs, whilst maintaining focus on the clients long term strategy.
§ Responds to internal and external customer queries/requests promptly.
§ Builds a personal rapport with opposite number both within the business and externally.
§ Is able to challenge customer’s organisation and maintains clear and frequent communication channels.
§ Develops relationships within own business unit and cross functionally in the Group.
Can Do:
Personal initiative and the encouragement of others
§ Confident to ‘have a go’ when outcome is uncertain – and to make it work when it goes wrong.
§ Often sets goals that some people see as unrealistic.
§ Is supportive of others taking calculated risks ad therefore avoids a blame culture.
§ Personally evaluates risk and makes contingency plans accordingly.
§ Gets the right resources (people, capital, equipment etc.) and organises them to achieve set goals.
§ Monitors progress of self and others by identifying and fulfilling development needs.
§ Adopts a practical, no-nonsense approach: “what can we do to sort this out?”
§ Stays focussed on the end result expected achieve.
§ Encourages others to fulfil their potential and to therefore sometimes achieve outstanding results.
§ Delegates responsibilities whilst maintaining support and focus.
Teamwork:
§ Encourages personal growth within a supportive and honest culture.
§ Speaks well of others, recognising their strengths and supporting their development needs.
§ Always gives credit and genuine praise where it is due.
§ Considers others when making decisions.
§ Treats people as equals and generates a rapport built on trust and honesty.
§ Works comfortably within a team but identifies poor performance fairly and consistently and acts appropriately.
§ Is known as a reliable individual who commits and delivers for the team.
§ Gives responsibility to others and trusts them to deliver, whilst maintaining a “watching brief”
§ Respects contributions from other functions/specialisms and works within their agenda.
Communication, ethics and integrity
§ Contributes own views and listens to views of others in team debates and meetings.
§ Openly and honestly discusses and debates business issues with others.
§ Invites feedback on briefing notes and communicates further developments and information.
§ Willingly accepts and acts positively upon constructive criticism.
§ Has a genuine open door policy and is seen as approachable and responsive to issues and concerns.
§ Involves others appropriately in decision making and communicates the outcome clearly.
§ Has regular communication with all levels of staff and actively promotes 2 way discussions.
Efficiency:
§ Benchmarks self and function against World Class standard.
§ Aware of gaps in own knowledge and experience and also of team and function.
§ Recognises what “good” looks like and works to achieve it.
§ Strives to gain high levels of achievement and meets good standards of personal competence and Best Practice within the Group.
§ Knows when to seek specialist help and how to obtain it.
§ Measures performance “value adding” KPI’s thus ensures delivery of expectations.
§ Learns from mistakes, and puts in place methods to prevent reoccurrences.
§ Strives to deliver Continuous Improvement in the business to deliver growth.
Delivering value
§ Looks to introduce processes which will generate further gain, efficiency, profit and value.
§ Identifies areas of weakness or risk and implements corrective action.
§ Continually seeks to improve personal performance by self awareness and self development.
§ Shares own learning with others in their own business, function and across the Group, and willingly adopts the best practice of others.
§ Seeks out the areas where value can be added and supports or instigates the changes required to achieve the gain.
§ Always keeps sight of the necessity to deliver the right balance of value and growth for both Geest and the customer.
This vacancy is being advertised by NCR (New Century Recruitment Ltd). The services advertised by NCR are those of an Employment Agency.
The key areas of focus include;
The successful candidate will use their project management, creative and commercial skills to manage innovative product development programmes, ensuring we deliver competitive advantage.
Working closely with the Development Chefs, the successful candidate will be responsible for managing projects from the concept stage through to factory trials. They will be able to lead cross functional teams to meet project objectives as well as having the ability to develop kitchen scale samples, determine nutritional values, cost products, and source raw materials.
Qualifications:
Essential
Degree, H.N.D. or equivalent in a food related discipline e.g. Food science, Consumer science & food studies.
This vacancy is being advertised by NCR (New Century Recruitment Ltd). The services advertised by NCR are those of an Employment Agency.
Essential Experience:
. Ford APQP
. Programme experience
• Engineering degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline (desirable) as is IQA membership.
• Experience of managing Quality within Tier 1 Automotive including co-ordination/ supervision of a project based or functional team.
• Demonstrable experience of managing a team of Quality Engineers and Technicians.
• Able to demonstrate contribution to previous successful new product launches.
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of business strategy and the role of Quality within the business.
Primary function
• Working with Programme management to ensure the successful implementation of new transit seats both Turkey and UK plants. To be a key member of the implementation team.
• Undertake the APQP, (P)FMEA and Control Plan implementation.
• Attend the New Programme meetings and manage all programme quality activities.
• Manage the Transactions between Dunton, Turkey and Southampton to ensure common understanding and communication.
• Manage Engineering activities with the team from any base, Luton, Southampton, Dunton, Turkey.
• Establish and maintain a Launch room on 3 sites, Luton Southampton and Turkey.
• Monitoring and reporting on matters of Quality to the Management team.
• Stand-in, in the absence of the Quality Manager.
• Identifying/setting Quality standards and key performance indicators within the division based on company and customer expectations.
• Management of the QA operations of the plant in close consultation and cooperation with the Group QA Manager and General Manager and Programme Managers.
Secondary Function
• Ensure data is updated and the visual factory is implemented:
• Site data and scorecard is upto date
• Compliant to TS16949 Control and Maintenance.
• Ensure that all documentation conforms to industry/customer quality standards and supports customer new product needs.
• Set and communicate specific supplier quality targets and significant characteristics.
• Report all identified components rejects, initiate and review supplier corrective actions, where necessary.
• Ensure timely supplier containment to support our clients provision, where necessary.
• Fully support engineering change management of supplied components/material.
• Actively participate in the continuous improvement process – supplier quality, cost, innovation, delivery and management.
• Ensure that requirements of Environmental, Health and Safety Policy are communicated to, understood and adhered to by all Quality personnel.
Other features of job:
37.5 hours/week - Monday to Thursday 08:30 to 17:00, Friday 08:30 to 14:00.
Some out of hours work will be required.
Travel to the clients Luton, Southampton, Turkey and other sites will be required and essential to perform this role.
This vacancy is being advertised by NCR (New Century Recruitment Ltd). The services advertised by NCR are those of an Employment Agency.
