Food & Drink

With a turnover of £76 billion* in 2012, the UK food and drink industry is our largest manufacturing sector and accounts for 15% of all UK manufacturing GVA.

The sector employs 400,000 workers domestically, which is 15% of manufacturing workforce and exports over £12 billion of food and non-alcoholic drink products a year, of which over 75% go to the EU. UK food and drink businesses invested over £1 billion in R&D in 2011 which resulted in over 8,500 new products.

Technical Network’s Food and Drink division focuses on specialist Manufacturing, Quality, Technical, R&D, Engineering and Supply Chain disciplines, supplying high calibre permanent and interim hires to a number of blue chip and SME clients across the UK and Europe.

We place a big emphasis on building long term partnerships with our clients and candidates, taking time to understand their requirements and expectations and tailoring our services to suit them.

We work across a number of specialist disciplines in the food and drink industry, which include:

Senior & Executive

•          Managing Directors
•          Engineering Directors/Operations Director
•          R&D Directors/Technical Directors

Technical

•          Technical Managers
•          Quality/Quality Assurance Managers
•          QHS Managers/Compliance Managers
•          Hygiene Managers

Engineering

•          Chief Engineers/Engineering Managers
•          Engineering Team Leaders/Engineering Technicians
•          Maintenance Managers/Maintenance Team leaders

Operations

•          General Managers/Operations Managers
•          Manufacturing/Production Managers
•          Shift Managers/Team Leaders

Supply Chain

•          Supply Chain Managers/Planning Managers
•          Logistics Managers/Distribution Managers
•          Transport Managers
•          Warehouse Managers

NPD

•          Head of Development/Development Managers
•          NPD Project Managers
•          Development Technologists

Candidates who are interested in career opportunities within the Food & Drink industry can register with us or apply online for any of the advertised vacancies.

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*Source: www.themanufacturer.com