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Temporary Accounts Assistant - Immediate Start

Department: Finance
Type: Temporary - Full Time
Hours: 37.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday
Location: Stowmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Salary: £25,000 per annum pro-rata

A little bit about us ….

Muntons is a significant global supplier to the food and drinks industry and has been producing high-quality malt and malted ingredients for some of the most famous, and well-loved brands around the globe for the over 100 years.  Successful and growing with customers ranging from multinational food and beverage producers to start ups and small independent craft brewers and distillers, you’re likely to have tasted our products already, without even knowing it!  You’ll find our headquarters in Suffolk, and our other production sites in East Yorkshire and Thailand.  We also have sales offices in Asia, Europe, and America.  We are passionate about malt, malted ingredients and sustainability; being the leaders in our field we are over halfway to meeting or beating our net zero carbon target by 2050.  We continue to look to the next 100 years as a strong and sustainable global supplier of malt and malted ingredients.

In this role Muntons will provide

  • Competitive rate of pay, reviewed annually
  • Flexible working arrangements

Key tasks:

  • Process supplier invoices and payments
  • Resolve invoice queries and entries on blocked invoice report
  • Reconciliation of Statements and review of supplier accounts 
  • Prepare and process weekly payment runs
  • Reconcile Bank Accounts
  • Weekly and monthly reporting for Asset Based Lending (ABL) facility and production of submissions to the bank
  • Check and process employee expense claims

Key skills required:

  • Knowledge of SAP would be advantageous
  • Experience of working in a finance team
  • AAT Qualified
  • Be self-confident and have the initiative to work with minimum supervision
  • Able to hit the ground running

Key behaviours and competencies:

  • Team Collaboration: Actively contributes to team working and cooperates with others, fostering a collaborative environment.
  • Task Management: Ensures tasks and activities stay on track by promptly raising any issues or concerns.
  • Problem Identification and Escalation: Identifies problems and opportunities and escalates them to the appropriate channels for resolution.
  • Alignment with Company Values: Demonstrates adherence to the company's values and aligns their actions and behaviours.
  • Respectful and Welcoming: Promotes a welcoming environment, treating everyone equally, fairly, and with respect.
  • Proactive and Positive Attitude: Exhibits a proactive, positive, and can-do attitude towards tasks and challenges.

Length of temporary assignment:  Approximately three months


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Closing Date: Friday, 9th August 2024
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Board Executive Assistant

Department: ICT
Type: Permanent - Full Time
Hours: 37.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday. Part-time considered
Location: Stowmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Salary: Salary guide: Competitive

A little bit about us ….

Muntons is a significant global supplier to the food and drinks industry and has been producing high-quality malt and malted ingredients for some of the most famous, and well-loved brands around the globe for the over 100 years.  Successful and growing with customers ranging from multinational food and beverage producers to start ups and small independent craft brewers and distillers, you’re likely to have tasted our products already, without even knowing it!  You’ll find our headquarters in Suffolk, and our other production sites in East Yorkshire and Thailand.  We also have sales offices in Asia, Europe, and America.  We are passionate about malt, malted ingredients and sustainability; being the leaders in our field we are over halfway to meeting or beating our net zero carbon target by 2050.  We continue to look to the next 100 years as a strong and sustainable global supplier of malt and malted ingredients.

In this role Muntons will provide

  • Competitive rate of pay, reviewed annually
  • Company pension contribution at 5%
  • Health Cash Plan with Reward Scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Company profit based bonus
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • myStaffShop membership

Key responsibilities 

In this role you will provide high-level administrative support to Muntons Board members (primarily CEO, CFO, COO and HR) by preparing reports, handling information requests, and performing clerical functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings. The ideal candidate will be proficient in creating PowerPoint presentations, conducting Excel analysis, managing travel bookings, overseeing diary management, and demonstrating strong IT competency.

Key tasks

  • Excel Analysis: Perform data analysis and create reports using advanced Excel functions to support decision-making processes.
  • Create and Design PowerPoint Presentations: Develop visually appealing and informative presentations for meetings, conferences, and other events.
  • Travel and Entertainment Bookings: For COO, CFO, and HR; Coordinate all aspects of travel arrangements for both domestic and international travel including flights, accommodations, and itineraries. Organise catering for meetings etc.
  • Diary Management: For COO, CFO and HR; Manage the executive's calendar, ensuring efficient time management and coordination of meetings, appointments, and events.
  • Board Management; development of monthly Board agenda and Board pack, including proof reading and collation.
  • Shareholder communication; AGM, share sales and ad hoc comms with the Company Secretary
  • Charity relations and donations;
  • IT Literacy: Be able to take a lead in how to take advantage of IT and AI to simplify work for the Exec team.
  • Admin cover across the business; Reception and Sales Admin cover for holidays. Corporate credit card expenses

Key Qualifications:

  • Proven experience as an Executive Assistant or similar administrative role.
  • Expertise in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly PowerPoint and Excel.
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to multitask.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Discretion and confidentiality.
  • IT literacy, with a solid understanding of computer operations and standard software applications.  Knowledge of SAP is desirable

Key behaviours and competencies:

  • Team Collaboration: Actively contributes to team working and cooperates with others, fostering a collaborative environment.
  • Task Management: Ensures tasks and activities stay on track by promptly raising any issues or concerns.
  • Problem Identification and Escalation: Identifies problems and opportunities and escalates them to the appropriate channels for resolution.
  • Alignment with Company Values: Demonstrates adherence to the company's values and aligns their actions and behaviours.
  • Respectful and Welcoming: Promotes a welcoming environment, treating everyone equally, fairly, and with respect.
  • Proactive and Positive Attitude: Exhibits a proactive, positive, and can-do attitude towards tasks and challenges.

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Malt Extract Shift Production Manager

Department: Manufacturing
Type: Permanent - Full Time
Hours: Average 42 hours per week as per the Panama shift pattern giving 24/7 production cover
Location: Stowmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Salary: Salary range £47,500 – 50,000 per annum

A little bit about us ….

Muntons is a significant global supplier to the food and drinks industry and has been producing high-quality malt and malted ingredients for some of the most famous, and well-loved brands around the globe for the over 100 years.  Successful and growing with customers ranging from multinational food and beverage producers to start ups and small independent craft brewers and distillers, you’re likely to have tasted our products already, without even knowing it!  You’ll find our headquarters in Suffolk, and our other production sites in East Yorkshire and Thailand.  We also have sales offices in Asia, Europe, and America.  We are passionate about malt, malted ingredients and sustainability; being the leaders in our field we are over halfway to meeting or beating our net zero carbon target by 2050.  We continue to look to the next 100 years as a strong and sustainable global supplier of malt and malted ingredients.

In this role Muntons will provide

  • Competitive rate of pay, reviewed annually
  • Company pension contribution at 5%
  • Health Cash Plan with Reward Scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Company profit based bonus
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • myStaffShop membership

Key responsibilities 

Area management for liquid malt extract production, ultrafilter production, spraydried production and packing, band dried production and packing, liquid malt extract packing including all personnel, equipment, raw materials and packed goods within the above areas.  In this role you will:

  • Interpret and execute production plan for the shift achieving the required throughput, plan attainment and Right First Time standards.
  • Monitor and control production process and where required follow the escalation process.
  • Understand site priorities for tasks and manage to minimise downtime and maximise quality.
  • Be responsible for shift performance and supporting the team to delivery of required KPIs.
  • Ensure shift handovers and daily shift meetings are completed with all required information.  To lead/participate in Kaizen and other relevant meetings.
  • Be responsible for the team, their personal performance, training and development.
  • Complete monthly 1:1 & WDP process on actus with regular communications processes and team engagement to drive performance.
  • Be responsible for shifts working environment, GMP and health & safety arrangements and compliance with agreed business procedures and standards.
  • Ensure liaison with other Shift Production Managers to deliver consistent approach to standards across each team, handover of areas to agreed standards and effective communication.
  • Support delivery of key projects and improvements as agreed.      Raising opportunities for improvements as identified.
  • Understands standards required, captures all required shift data.
  • Understand problem solving approach and use with support.

Minimum Qualifications & Experience

5 years experience in a manufacturing production environment at team leader level or above

 


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Engineering Shift Team Leader

Department: Technical
Type: Permanent - Full Time
Hours: 42 hours per week. 24/7 Panama Shift
Location: Stowmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Salary: Salary guide £57,000 per annum

A little bit about us ….

Muntons is a significant global supplier to the food and drinks industry and has been producing high-quality malt and malted ingredients for some of the most famous, and well-loved brands around the globe for the over 100 years.  Successful and growing with customers ranging from multinational food and beverage producers to start ups and small independent craft brewers and distillers, you’re likely to have tasted our products already, without even knowing it!  You’ll find our headquarters in Suffolk, and our other production sites in East Yorkshire and Thailand.  We also have sales offices in Asia, Europe, and America.  We are passionate about malt, malted ingredients, and sustainability; being the leaders in our field we are over halfway to meeting or beating our net zero carbon target by 2050.  We continue to look to the next 100 years as a strong and sustainable global supplier of malt and malted ingredients.

In this role Muntons will provide

  • Competitive rate of pay, reviewed annually.
  • Company pension contribution at 5%
  • Health Cash Plan with Reward Scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Company profits-based bonus.
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • myStaffShop membership

Key responsibilities 

To lead and manage the day-to-day workload for your engineering team to ensure an effective and efficient service is delivered and departmental targets are achieved, including the planning and resourcing of pro-active and re-active maintenance via CMMS (AGILITY).  Drive a culture of continuous improvement throughout your team of skilled engineers. Manage Contractors, provide leadership to your team, coordinating and overseeing their workloads, providing support to ensure that the team delivers. Monitoring any issues, ensuring targets are met and escalating issues as required. Develop the team by focusing on individual performance and support requirements to achieve high standards whilst ensuring a culture of working safely. Implement and drive programs to improve engineering plant reliability and availability through your team aligned to department objectives. To ensure your team activities are accurately recorded and inventory management is controlled in line with maintenance requirements. To identify and manage process improvement-based projects and to plan and manage equipment overhauls. To cover other Team Leaders and deputise for the Maintenance Manager as required. You will be expected to be flexible and always take on training offered to you.

Key skills required:

  • Understand site priorities for tasks to minimise downtime and maximise quality.
  • Ability to lead and communicate with other team members and other team leaders scheduling Engineering work arrangements and priorities etc.
  • Ability to step up in Maintenance Managers absence. 
  • Ability to manage the team and their personal performance and development needs.
  • Takes responsibility for the working environment and health & safety arrangements.
  • Competent in managing shift performance.

Key behaviours and competencies:

  • Leadership: Demonstrates effective leadership by providing guidance and support to the team. Coach mentor and develop engineers and apprentices.
  • Personal awareness: Presents good behaviours internally and externally, representing the business positively.
  • Communication: Communicates clearly with team members, line managers, and stakeholders via daily operation reviews/weekly operation reviews etc
  • Technical Knowledge: Possesses a solid understanding of industry processes, equipment, and regulations.
  • Problem-solving: Identifies and resolves operational issues to maintain productivity.
  • Quality Focus: Ensures adherence to quality control and food safety standards.
  • Team Development: Supports the training and development of team members.
  • Time and Resource Management: Efficiently manages time, resources, and production schedules.
  • Safety Leadership: Prioritises and enforces a safe working environment.
  • Adaptability: Adapts to changing circumstances and priorities.
  • Continuous Improvement: Encourages a culture of ongoing improvement in processes and productivity.
  • Drive for Results: Determined and resilient in ensuring targets are achieved and commitments are delivered.
  • Champion: one of the following four key skills 
  • Legionella, HACCP, DSEAR, IOSH/NEBOSH

Key Qualifications / Experience:

  • Qualified in an Engineering Discipline - Level 3
  • Proven engineering background in electrical & mechanical disciplines

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The Company’s production processes operate in accordance with BRC Food Factory hygiene requirements. As such, all jewellery including rings, chains, watches, earrings or body piercings etc. are prohibited from being worn in any production, packing or despatch areas of the factory. Additionally protective equipment including hair nets and if appropriate beard snoods are required to be worn in these areas.

The Company also operates a complete ban on smoking in any building, site or vehicle owned or controlled by the Company and takes a zero tolerance approach to breaches of this policy. Equally the Company does not permit the use of electronic cigarettes or nicotine inhaler devices. Most shifts are of 8 or 12 hour duration with little or no opportunity to leave site during the working day. If you smoke and cannot abstain from smoking for this period of time, please carefully consider the appropriateness of any application you make for employment with us.

If you require any further information please email: hr@muntons.com