Finsbury Food Group

Location: UK - Multi-site (Regular travel across Finsbury sites) Shift: Weekdays We have a new opportunity for a Group Capex Programme Lead to join our Group Engineering & Excellence team within Finsbury Food Group. Finsbury Food Group is one of the UK's leading speciality bakery manufacturers. We continually raise quality, innovation, and operational standards while building long-term, trusted relationships across retail, foodservice, and brand partnerships. Our portfolio spans a wide range of bakery categories-from market-leading retailer own-brand products to beloved licensed and branded ranges-produced across our nationwide network of bakeries. This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of Finsbury's Group Capital Expenditure programme, leading the governance, prioritisation, and successful delivery of strategic capital investment across our manufacturing sites. You'll play a key role in shaping the future of our operations by ensuring investment supports business growth, automation, sustainability, operational excellence, and long-term resilience. Working closely with senior leaders across Engineering, Operations, Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain and Manufacturing, you'll provide strategic oversight of our capital portfolio, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and with measurable business benefits. You'll establish clear governance, develop long-term capital strategies, embed consistent project management standards, and build capability across the business to improve project delivery. This role would suit an experienced programme or project leader who enjoys bringing structure to complex programmes, influencing senior stakeholders, and driving continuous improvement across a multi-site manufacturing environment. This is what you'll actually do! As Group Capex Programme Lead, you'll lead the governance and control of Finsbury's capital investment portfolio, ensuring every project is prioritised, managed effectively, and aligned with our strategic business objectives. You'll oversee programme performance by monitoring spend, delivery milestones, risks, and benefit realisation, providing clear visibility to senior leadership and ensuring issues are addressed proactively. You'll develop and maintain the Group's long-term capital investment strategy, helping to shape future investment across automation, asset replacement, infrastructure, sustainability, energy efficiency, and manufacturing capability. Working alongside site engineering teams and business leaders, you'll ensure investment decisions support operational performance, future growth, compliance, and cost reduction. A key part of the role will involve standardising the way capital projects are managed across the Group. You'll implement robust governance processes, develop practical project management tools and stage-gate controls, and ensure projects are delivered with strong safety, food safety, legal, contractor management, and compliance standards throughout the entire project lifecycle. You'll partner with Finance, Procurement, Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Technical and site leadership teams to ensure projects remain commercially robust and strategically aligned. You'll also provide early engineering input into New Product Innovation projects, helping teams understand infrastructure, capacity, equipment, and investment requirements before projects progress. Alongside leading programme governance, you'll coach and develop project managers and engineering teams, creating greater consistency, accountability, and project delivery capability across the business. Your success will be measured through key KPIs including capital projects delivered within approved budgets and timescales, successful delivery of investment benefits, adoption of project governance standards, quality of reporting and forecasting, effective risk management, and continuous improvement in project delivery across the Group. Ideally this is you! Degree qualified (or equivalent experience) in Engineering, Manufacturing, Project Management or a related discipline Formal Project Management qualification would be advantageous Significant experience leading capital projects or capital programmes within manufacturing, FMCG, food production, or a similarly complex operational environment Strong experience managing multi-site capital investment programmes and governance frameworks Excellent understanding of project management, programme governance, risk management, cost control, scheduling and benefit realisation Commercially aware with experience developing business cases and evaluating investment opportunities Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and challenge constructively at all levels Experience working collaboratively across Engineering, Operations, Finance, Procurement and Supply Chain functions Confident analysing complex project data and translating it into meaningful business insight Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities across a diverse capital portfolio Passionate about continuous improvement, coaching others, and embedding consistent ways of working Willingness to travel regularly across Finsbury manufacturing sites What's in it for you? Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival! Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families) Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform! Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral - T&C's dependent) Employee Recognition Awards Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!) An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more! Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!

Kara Foodservice in Manchester is seeking a Production Operative to join the production team within the Finsbury Food Group. The role involves operating machinery, mixing, packing, and palletising in a fast-paced bakery environment. You will work in hot and cold environments, handle frozen goods, and perform quality checks while upholding hygiene and GMP standards, with opportunities for training and development.

2 Clay Wheels Ln, Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield S6 1LY, UK Job Description Posted Friday 7 August 2026 at 00:00 Location:Fletchers Bakeries Ltd, Sheffield Shift: Monday - Friday6am to 2pm Hourly rate:Competitive We have an opportunity for a Hygiene Skilled Operative to join our Operations Team at Fletchers Bakerieswhich forms part ofour Northern Cluster. With over 125 years of baking heritage, Fletchers Bakery has built a reputation for quality and innovation. Kara Foodservice has been supplying wholesale bakery products for more than 35 years, and both businesses have been part of the Finsbury Food Group since 2014. Today, their combined portfolio includes gourmet brioche, traditional sliced bread, bloomer loaves, and a range of vegan and gluten-free bakery products. As a Hygiene Skilled Operative, you will be responsible for carrying out deep cleaning, sanitation, and hygiene activities in accordance with food safety, quality, and manufacturing standards. You will also be responsible for the accurate completion of all associated documentation, ensuring due diligence is maintained at all times and that all hygiene procedures are followed in line with company and regulatory requirements. This is what you'll actually do ! In this role, you will maintain high standards of hygiene and housekeeping by following a clean-as-you-go approach across production areas. You will carry out cleaning and sanitation activities in line with food safety policies, safely use cleaning chemicals in accordance with COSHH regulations, and ensure all hygiene records and documentation are completed accurately. You will follow hygiene schedules and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure equipment and production areas are cleaned and ready for the next production run, working to tight deadlines during planned shutdowns. Depending on your skills and training, you may also be involved in stripping down machinery for deep cleaning. You will help maintain effective pest control measures, complete tasks using the CMMS system, and always follow safe systems of work by adhering to health and safety procedures and wearing the appropriate PPE. Maintaining exceptional hygiene standards will be a key part of your day-to-day responsibilities. You will promote safe working practices, support the goal of zero accidents, and carry out any additional duties required to support production and contribute to the success of the team. Ideally this is you! Previous experience in FMCG A conscientious approach with attention to detail Confident communicator at all levels. Good time management able to work to deadlines Physically fit some lifting and bending under machinery required Able to make decisions at right level or escape if needed Basic reading, writing, numeracy, and computer literacy skills. What's in it for you? Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival! Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families) Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform! Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral - T&C's dependent) Employee Recognition Awards An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more! Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. 2 Clay Wheels Ln, Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield S6 1LY, UK

Finsbury Food Group is hiring a Hygiene Skilled Operative at our Sheffield site. You will perform deep cleaning, sanitation and hygiene tasks across production areas to uphold food safety, quality and manufacturing standards. You will maintain hygiene records and follow SOPs while using cleaning chemicals safely and documenting every activity. The role requires attention to detail, good communication, and the ability to work to tight deadlines during production cycles.