Senior Process Improvement Technologist (CI/OPEX) - Bakkavor Barton Bread
We rise to challenges together
Salary: £40,000- £45,000 depending on experience plus benefits including; up to 10% annual bonus scheme, 25 Days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (with the option to purchase x5 extra days maximum).
Benefits: MyBargains Discount Platform, A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans), Free Independent Mortgage Advice
Location: Bakkavor Barton Bread, Barton-Upon-Humber, DN18 5RT
Ways of Working: Site Based
Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday 08:30 -17:00
Contract: Permanent
Why join us?
We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The fast-paced, high-pressure environment of our 24/7 operation keeps us agile and offers a wide range of career opportunities to explore. We encourage everyone to push their limits, work hard, and demonstrate resilience. And it's thrilling. Because by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, we'll continue to diversify, grow as individuals, and succeed together. We're proud to offer you a career with significant potential for development.
What we do.
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. This particular role is at our Bakkavor Bread site based in Barton-Upon-Humber, close to the Humber Bridge. This factory specialises in making chilled speciality baguettes at high volumes and employs over 150 people. This site is located 14 miles from Hull, 16 miles from Scunthorpe and 24 miles from Grimsby.
About the role.
The successful candidate will drive site continuous improvement strategy across all operational areas and coach / support site teams in delivering the Bakkavor Operating System, and deliver successful product validations to Bakkavor/customer principles in line with business requirements.
The role of the OpEx function is to develop manufacturing capability to enable the business to deliver productivity improvements. The process function will work across all functions and the customer to produce product in line with food safety and technical standards, H&S, financial and commercial expectations.
Role Accountabilities:
* Shaping and deploying the Bakkavor Operating System into site ways of working. The Bakkavor Operating System represents standard processes, tools / techniques and behaviours that support the manufacture of products, creating value for the company and customers (to include Redzone Productivity Module).
* Shaping and deploying standard Management Control & Reporting Structure (MCRS) across balance score of card metrics into all functions and areas.
* Supporting the delivery of team-based Kaizen improvements in line with top loss data and site manufacturing strategy. Working cross functionally to ensure all departments contribute, assist, and deliver quantifiable performance improvement across the business.
* Developing and supporting delivery of annual PIP plan in line with site manufacturing strategy. Working cross functionally to ensure all departments contribute, assist, and deliver quantifiable performance improvement across the business.
* Ensure mechanisms are in place to communicate and drive employee involvement within continuous improvement projects and continually review their effectiveness and explore new options which link to & support the site engagement plans.
* Data analysis, report development, cost saving evaluation and creation of improvement narratives
* Supporting site teams to solve complex problem by facilitating structured problem-solving events
* Managing Trials - To deliver trials against the plan, in line with the business critical paths, using a problem solving approach ensuring issues are captured and communicated across multiple functions, with an awareness of the budget.
* Preparation and completion of transit tests in compliance with customer codes of practice, taking a logical approach.
* Facilitate Post Trial Evaluation: Co-ordination of samples required for evaluation, plan the trial review for QAS generation and organoleptic assessment. Ensure SOP, photo std, captured.
* Using a pragmatic approach to ensure all procedures e.g. transit trials.
* Develop a supportive function to stakeholders, with a pragmatic, problem solving approach to ensure all relevant information collected to input in business systems. Post launch review incorporating possible cost reduction opportunities, ensuring procedural compliance.
* Completion of controlled documents for trials, pre-productions and launches against the customer specification and BOM.
* To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and environment
About You:
* 1-2 years demonstrable experience in a manufacturing environment in at least one of the following disciplines: Technical; Production; Development; or graduate in related discipline.
* Experience of working closely and effectively with support functions including: Planning, Engineering, Technical, Process, SHE and HR.
* Lean manufacturing or process improvement experience, to progress to green belt level
* Experience of leading change projects
* Ability to build credible & successful working relationships at all levels within the organisation
* Is vigilant with good attention to detail and spots opportunities for improvement
* Has good organisational skills and is able to manage own time and workload with the ability to multi-task
What you'll receive.
As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.
* Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
* Short Term Bonus Scheme up to 10%
* 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays -option to buy a maximum of 5 days more
* Staff Shop
* Stakeholder Pension Scheme
* MyBargains Discount Platform
* Personal Accident Insurance
* Free Independent Mortgage Advice
* Employee Assistance Programme
* A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
* Discounted tutoring for children
* Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
* Private Medical Insurance
* Free Carparking
Proud to be Bakkavor.
We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!
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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 18,000 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 3,000 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.
Category: Process
Location:
Barton Upon Humber, GB, DN18 5RT
Date: 7 Jul 2025
Req ID: 25165
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