Refresco
Syrup & Ingredients Manager
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Pontefract, H14
Monday – Thursday 8:30am – 5pm, Friday 8:30am – 4pm
About The Role
To support the quality improvement and right first-time agenda so that products are legally and safely manufactured in compliance with customer and internal Company specifications and standards. To facilitate the launch of new customers, products, and processes into manufacturing
Here are your key tasks and responsibilities as Syrup & Ingredients Manager at Refresco:
- Manage the end-to-end syrup production process, including carbonation, dilute-to-taste operations, water treatment, CIP systems, and raw material handling, ensuring efficient and cost-effective operations.
- Maintain product quality and compliance by enforcing quality control standards, preventing the release of non-conforming materials, adhering to process parameters, and supporting management system requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement and innovation through process enhancements, product development support, operational excellence initiatives, and collaboration with customers and stakeholders.
- Lead, develop, and motivate teams by promoting high performance, delivering training and succession planning, setting clear objectives, and encouraging multi-skilling across all levels.
- Ensure the highest standards of safety, hygiene, and environmental compliance, maintaining safe working practices, enforcing H&S policies, sustaining hygiene standards, and managing waste in line with regulations.
- Support business performance and strategic objectives through effective cost centre and capital expenditure management, strong cross-functional relationships, and assisting in the development and implementation of operational goals and procedures.
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About You
We are seeking an experienced manufacturing professional with strong leadership skills, knowledge of quality systems, and proficiency in SAP. The successful candidate will be highly organised, an effective communicator, and able to manage teams, projects, and priorities in a fast-paced production environment while driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Ultimately, we encourage everyone to role model our core values of agility, responsibility, passion, excellence, and entrepreneurship as we believe these are what has made Refresco successful so far.
Find out more about the Refresco Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values
If you fit this profile and are excited by this opportunity, we would be delighted to hear from you!
About Refresco:
Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia.
Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass.
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Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand
Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com.
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.
We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.
Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.
Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.
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