At Warburtons, family is at the heart of our business. Five generations' worth of expertise that goes into making our bakery products allows us to continue a tradition of baking inherited over the past 150 years.
Warburtons is the largest bakery brand in the UK, but that doesn't allow us to rest on our laurels. We are pioneers of the industry and ambitious market leaders, always seeking to challenge ourselves and convention. It is part of our philosophy to provide honest good sense on issues of health and well-being, helping the whole family to enjoy our products as part of a healthy, balanced diet, through a range of products to suit all meal occasions, lifestyles and tastes.
Title: Bakery Trainer
Location: Enfield
Shifts: Monday – Friday (Variable start and finish times between 6am & 10pm)
Salary: Up to £33K plus local allowance
Are you working in a manufacturing environment and knead a new challenge? Do you have a passion for coaching and helping others grow? Our Enfield Bakery is on the lookout for a Bakery Trainer to rise to the challenge and help our teams prove their potential!
Essential Ingredients You’ll bring a blend of top‑notch communication skills—listening actively and expressing yourself clearly—along with a passion for coaching and mentoring others so their skills can truly rise. You’re able to influence and negotiate with flexibility, manage your time and projects efficiently, and develop innovative solutions when challenges start to crumble. You make confident, timely decisions while considering wider risks, and you lead with positivity by giving constructive feedback, supporting colleagues in a non‑confrontational way, and guiding teams effectively through change.
Health and Safety Advocate: Encourage adherence to health and safety legislation, policies, and standards, taking action to maintain a safe work environment.
Effective Trainer: Train new and current personnel, ensuring the effectiveness of training is measured and adjustments are made as needed.
Champion of Consistency: Support the development of consistent training across all manufacturing areas, aligned with our Continuous Improvement programmes.
Adaptable Educator: Tailor your delivery style to suit one-on-one coaching or group training, ensuring the highest standards of training are met.
SOP Developer: Involve all staff in developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), creating a consistent on-the-job training package from development to evaluation
The Recipe
At Warburtons, we believe in making every slice of life better – and that starts with our team. We're on the hunt for a Bakery Trainer at our Enfield Depo who’s not just skilled, but also passionate about nurturing talent and promoting best practices throughout our Manufacturing department.
What You’ll Be Doing
In this role, you'll be responsible for planning, designing, delivering, and evaluating training methods and manufacturing procedures to ensure our team is always at its best. You'll identify and develop training to help achieve multi-skilled teams, supporting our mission of continuous improvement. Communication is key, as you'll connect with people at all levels within the organization to share and implement best practices. Ensuring safety is paramount, you'll operate within statutory and company health and safety guidelines, maintaining a healthy, safe, and accident-free site. Supporting site with audits. Your flexibility will be essential as you adapt to and support the ever-changing needs of our business.
About Us
Our Enfield Bakery and Distribution site is one of the largest bakeries in Europe! We have 5 operating plants and around 500 colleagues who work a variety of shift patterns. At Enfield we have 40 different nationalities working together, and we celebrate our One Team family values. Our site runs 363 days of the year and operates 24/7!
Based in Brimsdown in North London, 15 minutes from M25, 10 minutes’ walk from Brimsdown overground, connected easily to Liverpool Street Station via Tottenham Hale.
We produce over 4.8 million crumpets per week, which is equivalent to 800,000 packets of 6 as well as producing a variety of other products. The Home of the Giant Crumpet, did you know there are 350 holes in a standard crumpet?
Extra Dough
Salary: Up to £33K including London weighting.
Profit Sharing: A slice of our annual profits (discretionary profit share).
Generous Holiday Allowance: 5 weeks holiday and bank hols, with the option to purchase up to an extra week (pro rata for part time).
Health and Wellbeing: Private medical insurance, health screening, life assurance, and access to free physiotherapy.
Award-Winning Pension: Company contributions to our outstanding pension scheme.
Exclusive Discounts: Deals and discounts for you and your family through our Extra Dough website.
24/7 Support: Access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service.
We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do