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As Central HR Administrator, you’re a pivotal point of contact for both visitors and employees. Without you, processes would be harder to manage, and colleagues wouldn’t feel supported.

Because for you, HR Admin isn’t about routine and being sat at a desk working alone all day. You’re a people person who thrives on regular interactions with colleagues and external visitors.

Join Branston to be trusted and encouraged to be you. Working in a small team across admin, recruitment, and face‐to‐face interaction, you’ll be backed and supported by great people striving for you to learn and succeed.

At Branston, we make a positive difference not just for our people but also for the planet. As a supplier to some of the largest retail, wholesale, and food manufacturing customers in the UK, we’re a business who thrive on growth planning and investment, innovative processes, and planning for a sustainable, carbon‐neutral future.

Do You Offer…?

• Solid administration skills but have a desire to learn more and develop your HR career
• Excellent communication skills through written and visual communcations
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise tasks and manage workloads
• Competency in Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint.

Because we like to continuously reinvest in not just our business, but also our people, you’ll have the opportunity to undertake a Level 3 HR Support apprenticeship, expanding your capabilities to reach your full potential. It’s an exciting time to join!

Enjoy a fast‐paced environment in which you’ll work across various business functions. You’ll get to learn about all aspects of our business and use your knowledge to make a real, positive difference to our employees. You’ll flourish with the opportunity to make a positive difference – by participating in employee engagement initiatives and events.

Additional benefits...

• Enhanced employer pension contributions
• Pension salary sacrifice scheme
• 23 days holiday + bank holidays
• Life assurance
• Critical Illness Cover
• Employee benefits platform; discounts at major retailers
• Free on-site parking
• Employee Assistance Programme including mental health support and access to a GP
• Free potatoes

To provide front line support to a general range of production machinery and software. The role is primarily focused on the efficient operating of machinery with high emphasis in training Machine Operators to the required level. A level of front line maintenance and PPM is also required.

Role Duties:

Operations:

• To carry out routine checks on VFFS Machines, Yamato, Multipond and Newtec multihead Weighers, ICE coders in conjunction with the Branston PPM System  
• Creating Labels within bartender and Clarisoft printing software, and uploading to coders as required
• To set up machine parameters to give a quality, commercially viable product run.
• Check and carry out routine hygiene on line critical parts.
• Liaise with maintenance for routine PPM and any other machine issues.
• To liaise with contractors and suppliers to ensure communication on all set up and operational developments.
• To ensure that equipment within your remit is operating to standard levels.
• Ensure that all work is accurately recorded on the Pirana CMMS system.
• Any other reasonable duties requested by your Manager.

Staff:

• Arrange staff training in conjunction with supervisors to give a fully trained team conversant with machine set-up, test and running.
• To deliver first contact advice on machine set-up and running issues.
• Constantly review and retrain operators to ensure they are performing to the correct standards.
• Carry out packaging line trials and give feedback on on-going packaging quality and issues.

Fresh potatoes, seed potatoes, processing potatoes, ready prepared potatoes… we handle around 350,000 tonnes of potatoes a year, so we like to think we know a thing or two about them!  We have three sites across the UK - in Lincoln, Scotland, and the South West. Lincoln is where it all started and it's still the largest of our sites.

We have a Shunter Driver vacancy at our Lincoln Fresh site-

As a key member of the site despatch team you will provide front line support to ensure trailers are available for loading and moved at the right times, regularly check fridge temperatures and carry out pre-start checks on all equipment used. You will be an experienced shunter driver and hold a class one driving licence.

The successful candidate will require good communication skills have excellent attention to detail. You will have the ability to work alone but also integrate within a small but critical team and uphold our Branston How-We-Do- Business values and behaviours

You'll join a great team and receive a competitive pay, pension contributions, life assurance, on-site vending facilities, health and well-being initiatives, free fruit and free potatoes. 

About the Role

We are seeking to appoint a talented and driven individual to create and manage a framework for the recruitment and development of the best available talent in the market. The company employs over 800 people across 3 sites in the UK and this role will be focused on supporting new and existing employees to develop their fullest potential. The role reports the Group HR Manager.

A new role for Branston, we’re looking for someone to make a positive difference to the way we hire, develop and retain talent.

 The main responsibilities are:

• Ownership of the end-to-end recruitment process for salaried roles, including Apprentices and Placements
• Support and advise site teams to ensure innovative and effective recruitment in line with specific needs
• Champion and support the group’s performance management process
• Develop and manage a group succession plan
• Manage the future talent pipeline through links with schools, colleges and universities

About you!

Do you have experience in recruitment or talent acquisition roles? And have a passion for people development?

We are looking for someone with a detailed understanding of the workings of Linkedin and other recruitment and social media tools to identify candidate pools. You’ll need to be tenacious and innovative in your approach. Most of all you will have to be organised and methodical with the ability to flex when necessary to meet demands and deadlines. The role will offer an attractive salary which can be significantly improved by hitting recruitment targets.

About Us.

We’re an ambitious, forward-thinking, values-led business, with planned investment and growth over the coming years. Find out more at www.Branston.com

We are recruiting for two maintenance engineers to join our night shift team, are you looking for your next opportunity to join an enthusiastic team at a forward-thinking business?

The Role

We're looking for a multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer to help maintain the operational performance of our high-speed production and packing machinery. You'll be responsible for frontline breakdown cover as well as undertaking routine maintenance to maximise production efficiency.

Skills and Experience

You'll need a good level of education with mechanical and electrical based engineering qualifications and experience in a similar role within a FMCG environment.

A working knowledge of process and packaging machinery is needed along with excellent fault finding and problem-solving skills. You will also need a flexible, proactive approach and be able to work effectively in a small team or independently.

You'll join a great team and receive a competitive salary, enhanced pension contribution, life assurance, be part of a discretionary bonus scheme, critical illness cover, on-site vending facilities, health and well-being initiatives, free fruit, and free potatoes.

If you want to start your Branston journey press the apply button to start your future.

We are looking for a flexible and enthusiastic Despatch Operative for our Prepared foods factory. You’ll be responsible for ensuring that deliveries are received and loaded in a timely manner ensuring all quality checks are maintained.

We are looking for Line Operatives to work in our Prepared Factory. You’ll be responsible for grading the product to the necessary standard and ensuring that packs are sealed, labelled correctly and are the correct weights.

You will be a key member of the team working closely with our Machine Operatives and Team Leaders to ensure the smooth running of our busy production lines whilst playing an important part in making sure every product packed is to the highest standard.

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