Are you a hands?on Training Manager who loves being out on the factory floor, building capability and confidence in operational teams?

Our client, a growing European food ingredients manufacturer with a busy UK production site, is looking to appoint a Training Manager to take ownership of all site training and development activity.

The opportunity

The UK site operates 24/5, producing both dry blends and liquid sauces for major food customers, with significant investment and site development planned over the coming years.

This role is a foundational hire, creating a structured training framework that will support future growth, multi skilling and improved performance across all shifts.

What you’ll be doing

• Owning the site training strategy and building a clear, simple framework that supports operational and business priorities.

• Designing and implementing skills matrices for all roles, giving full visibility of who is trained, competent and ready for progression.

• Developing practical technical training for powder processing, liquid cooking/mixing, packing lines, hygiene and cleaning activities.

• Leading the design and delivery of a robust induction and onboarding programme for permanent, temp and agency colleagues, with strong shopfloor follow?up and coaching.

• Elevating food safety, quality and compliance training (HACCP, GMP, allergens, hygiene, BRC, CCPs) and ensuring records are always audit?ready.

• Using performance, quality and safety data to identify skills gaps and target training that reduces errors, waste and downtime.

• Supporting continuous improvement activity by training teams in relevant CI tools and ways of working.

• Being a visible, approachable presence across all shifts in a 24/5 operation, “knitting the team together” and raising professionalism on site.

About you

• Experienced Training Manager or L&D Specialist from a food manufacturing or FMCG environment.

• Strong grounding in food safety, GMP, HACCP and hygiene, with the confidence to train others.

• Proven track record of building competency frameworks, skills matrices and multi skilling plans in an operational setting.

• Comfortable designing engaging, practical training for diverse learning styles and even more comfortable delivering it on the shopfloor.

• Credible, down to earth communicator who can influence without ego and build trust quickly with operators, team leaders and senior managers.

What’s on offer

• Salary around £45,000 plus health cash plan, pension (3% employee / 5% employer) and 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays.

• The chance to shape a training function almost from scratch in a collaborative, non?political environment that is pushing against an open door for change.

• A key role in a site and group that are investing for significant growth and long?term success.

Apply with your CV today or contact us for more information about this excellent opportunity in a leading food manufacturing business.