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My client in Peterborough is currently in need of a Chief Bread Engineer due to a growing team.
Job purpose: To be the technical authority and provide technical leadership for the company’s Bread equipment business.
- Overall Technical Responsibility for the bread product range
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- Ensure equipment is fit for purpose and class leading in terms of performance and features
- Ensure all bread equipment is compliant with relevant legislation
- Interfacing with the technical department on the design of bread equipment
- To be aware of and follow all company Health & Safety policies and procedures including feeding back any H&S information to management
- Maintenance of the bread equipment standards Travel to group and customer facilities around the world to promote, advise on and trouble shoot bread equipment.
- Trusted Advisor to the Sales team and Customers
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- Underwriting fitness of purpose for bread proposals / quotations
- Provide technical support for sales activities, including travelling to customer facilities around the world, as a technical advisor
- Actively seeking regular interaction with customers and other bodies in order to understand customers’ requirements, business drivers, trends, buying criteria and business opportunities for the company
- Drive the technical solutions as part of the Strategy to Win process enhancing the offer to our customers, compared to our competitors
- Ensuring overseas legal requirements and customer specifications are understood and considered in the proposal process
- Technical Risk Control
- Classification of risk profile for proposals and contracts, following the Risk Assessment process
- Outline and where necessary instigate mitigating actions where necessary
- Development
- Conceiving innovative and incremental development ideas for the bread equipment range
- Leading development projects for the business sector (resources responsible to others)
- Maintaining an awareness of technological developments which may have an application in the companies’ bread equipment
- Have an understanding of competitor’s equipment capabilities with a view to our equipment being equal or better
- Understanding industry trends and future requirements driven by product and process changes and/or regulatory changes
- Define new equipment types in line with the sector’s Business Development plans
- Identify patentable ideas and features to protect company intellectual property
- Be aware of and demonstrate the company values and behaviours
Candidate Profile - Experience, Skills, and Knowledge
- Significant experience of Industrial Bread equipment and processes deployed in the industry
- Capability to undertake technical analysis in order to solve problems and steer developments
- Prepared to travel extensively to support equipment sales, site troubleshooting, customer and competitor awareness, and equipment development strategy
- Good communications skills to allow effective working internally, with suppliers and with customers at all levels
Salary: £70,000
Location: Peterborough
Please respond with an up to date CV to be considered.
