• Salary/Rate of Pay: Starting from £10.42 per hour
• Status: Permanent
• Hours of Work: Full time or Part Time (minimum 1 x 12 hour shift up to 4 x 12 hour shifts)
• Location: Harwich, Essex
• Day or night work available with 10% premium for night hours
• Progression opportunities available

Typical daily duties will include:

• Inspect, pack food products, label cartons and stack
• Organise production processes to maximise efficiency and meet targets
• Ensure quality standards for all products are met, raising any concerns
• Ensure company procedures for Health, Hygiene and Safety and Food Safety are followed
• Manage operation of the line assigned and report any issues or breakdowns to the Production Manager/ Engineers
• Identify potential areas for improvement to production methods and processes

Skills Required:

• Previous experience working within a food production environment desirable but not essential as full training will be provided to support ongoing progression/development
• Attention to detail is imperative
• Good numeracy and written skills
• Confident working in a team and independently
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Have a strong work ethic conveying confidence and passion in delivering high quality service
• Being committed to safety, quality and productivity
• Achieving a high standard of punctuality and attendance, following company production rules,  adhering to health and safety rules and promote a safe working environment
• Due to the nature of the roles a degree of manual handling is required (training provided)

You may have experience in some of the following:

• Vertical Form fill sealing machines
• Filling out records including weight, metal checks, H&S, quality, and food safety
• Experience working in a labour-intensive, hands-on environment
• Forklift driving
• Food Production/ Packing / Machine operator experience

Benefits

• 5.6 weeks holiday / 28 days holiday (including bank holidays) for full timers
• Development opportunities
• Canteen on site
• Staff Discounts (after successful probation)
• Company Pension Scheme
• Training and PPE will be provided

If you’re looking to work for a fast-paced manufacturing company, where you can learn and develop machining and production skills, we would love to hear from you.

Company Description

Established in the 1980’s, Surya, part of Flying Trade Group is a rapidly expanding family owned business with a £168 million annual turnover and 1458 strong employee base. With our flagship Laila brand, 17 quality grains, 200k tones milling capacity and BRC A grade facility, we are a major Global Foods supplier in the Asian, Oriental, European and Afro-Caribbean sectors. Expanding fast into mainstream FMCG territory.

Role Description

The Category Buyer role at Surya Foods involves being responsible for all procurement and purchasing, therefore experience in cross functional buying such as; Frozen, Ambient, Chilled, Beverages etc and experience of World Foods is advantageous.

This is a full-time on-site role located in Harwich, England although hybrid may be considered for the right candidate.

The Category Buyer will collaborate with other departments to ensure that relevant goods are ordered, delivered on time, and at an optimum cost, while maintaining the quality standard.

Fantastic company benefits include:

• Competitive Salary is on offer DOE / Skills
• Holiday:28 days holiday including Bank Holidays
• Pension: Company pension
• Free Parking: Provide onsite free parking
• Employee extras such as: discounted or free food, employee discounts within the group, referral programme

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years experience working in a Category Buying role with a proven track record of effective negotiation and purchasing is essential
• Experience of World Foods is advantageous
• Ability to build and maintain business relationships with vendors and suppliers
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills with an eye for detail
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel.
• Experience with Program Theoretical Optimal Price (T.O.P) management technique will be considered an asset.

Junior National Account Manager – FMCG – Top 6 Accounts

Are you looking for a new challenge, or know someone who is? We’re looking for a Junior National Account Manager or Account Executive looking for their next career move.

Working within our Mainstream Business Unit, you will be exposed to top accounts such as Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Lidl and Aldi and will help develop relationships with buying, supply chain and merchandising.

You’ll be organised, IT literate, commercially savvy, a team player who won’t mind rolling up your sleeves and have a passion for food – we sell a lot of it!

You’ll learn about world foods from South Asia, Africa, Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Far South East Asia and Central Europe. You’ll be working with No.1 brands in Rice (Laila & Mai Thai), Sriracha Sauce (Thai Dragon) and Frozen Halal (Humza).

Your accounts will be your own to make a success of and supporting on the bigger conversations such as NPD and range changes with our established customers. You will be part of a friendly, collaborative team who work together to really achieve results and have the support and guidance of your manager.

Food Retailer experience desirable but not essential. A solid account management background in an industry will give you an advantage.

You must have a valid driving license and be able to attend our head office in Harwich, Essex a minimum of 2 days per week.

Responsible for

• Identifying new business opportunities and turn them into plans that drive incremental sales in your accounts.
• Ensuring full distribution and incremental space of Surya Foods products in the customer.
• Activating our brands in line with promotional plans using levers available such as POS, Shippers, Pallets etc….
• Working with NAMs to ensure effective use of commercial investment across your defined accounts.
• Support the strategic direction of accounts, through the construction & implementation of comprehensive joint business plans.
• Drive such plans throughout the business, through both your own accounts, but all other necessary functions, in order to ensure the targeted growth objectives are met.
• Challenge the status quo, to achieve a culture of continuous improvement & best practice and one whereby you are committed to go beyond the call of duty, in order to deliver outstanding results
• Regular updates with the National Accounts Director to review progress and ensure appropriate action and focus is being applied.
• To monitor business under contract and ensure brand integrity is upheld.
• Ensure all necessary Trade Terms are negotiated, to meet the requirements of our company and that these are agreed, in place and are signed within a company agreed document ahead of the implementation date.
• Develop and maintain broad professional working relationship within account base, but with clear focus on the following departments within any customer account:
  • Purchasing / Marketing / NPD / Operations / Sales

Must have..

• Commercial awareness locally and internationally.
• Highly ambitious and suited to extremely fast moving and non-traditional business.
• Experience of interpreting, combining and utilising data from a variety of sources.
• Understanding of commercial aspects; including sales and marketing.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills.
• Excellent presenter skills and ability to influence at all levels.
• Able to manage up and lead an agenda.
• Knowledge of FMCG and the independent retail sector.
• Microsoft Office skills – especially Excel &  Powerpoint.

What we can offer you;

Market competitive salary
28 days of annual leave.

Hybrid working

Training & Development
Company pension scheme.
Discounts across the group (Food, Hotels)
Performance related bonus

Established in the 1980’s, Surya, part of Flying Trade Group is a rapidly expanding family owned business with a £168 million annual turnover and 1458 strong employee base.​

With its flagship Laila brand​, 17 quality grains​, 200k tones milling capacity​ and BRC A grade facility, we are a major Global Foods supplier in the Asian, Oriental, European and Afro-Caribbean sectors.​ Expanding fast into mainstream FMCG territory. ​

Surya foods is a family owned and run food manufacturing operation in Harwich, Essex.

Established in the 1980’s, Surya, part of Flying Trade Group is a rapidly expanding family owned business with a £168 million annual turnover and 1458 strong employee base.​

With its flagship Laila brand​, 17 quality grains​, 200k tones milling capacity​ and BRC A grade facility, we are a major Global Foods supplier in the Asian, Oriental, European and Afro-Caribbean sectors.​ Expanding fast into mainstream FMCG territory. ​

The Role

• Full time / permanent
• Monday to Friday 9am till 6pm
• Salary: Competitive/negotiable DOE

Reporting to the Buying Director, we are recruiting on a permanent basis, a full time Buying Assistant to be based at our Head Offices, Harwich, Essex.

• Providing support and assistance to the Buying Director
• Manage the buying relationships with suppliers to the business
• Working with internal teams and suppliers to deliver product solutions
• Develop collaborative relationships with key suppliers
• Negotiate and secure the supply chain for products at competitive prices
• Positive problem solving;
• Effectively support the buying function.

Skills Required;

• Food buying experience is desirable but not essential
• Ability to work autonomously and with a team
• Attention to detail is imperative
• Ability to deal with a complexity of products
• Computer literate
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent administration skills
• Capable decision maker

If you have the necessary skills, we’d love to hear from you.

 

 

Do you have a valid Forklift Licence?

Do you have previous experience and knowledge of working in a warehouse / factory environment?

If so, read on!

• Rate of pay: From £11.00p/h (Dependent on Experience)
• Status: Full Time / Permanent
• Hours/Days per week: 45 hours per week, Monday to Friday with the occasional Weekend work
• Location: Harwich, Essex
• Other: Must be able to demonstrate right to work in the UK

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Operating Forklift truck around Rice factory
• Receiving and checking of goods inwards and outward
• Replenishment of stock
• Checking & reporting damaged stock
• General health and safety management
• Carrying out any reasonable requests made by the management team.

Desirable Skills:

• Highly organised and capable of performing tasks to a very high standard
• Attention to detail & excellent levels of accuracy
• Excellent housekeeping skills
• A good team player with initiative
• Good communication skills
• Consistent safe working practices
• Driven with a positive “can do” attitude

Benefits

• Free car parking
• 28 days Paid Annual Leave (inclusive of statutory holiday)
• Online payslips
• Pension contribution
• Staff Discounts after 6 months’ service
• Ongoing training will be provided

Surya Foods is one of the largest suppliers of authentic world foods in the UK and the company behind fastest growing UK rice brand, Laila – part of the rapidly expanding, family run Flying Trade Group (FTG) which boasts an annual UK turnover in excess of £130-million and operates in over 30 countries. Impressive growth has seen FTG enter the 2018 Sunday Times Top Track 250 league tables and the Sunday Times International Track 200 in 2019 and in 2020 company sales are already growing at 30%. We supply 100’s of products into supermarket giants Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl, Co-Op, Iceland.

We supply key customers such as Bestway, Brakes and Bidfood in our every growing food service channel. We also supply over 1000 independent retail accounts across the UK which is the heartbeat of our business, as well as our recently created online store selling over 2000 SKU’s. Surya Foods also represents some leading imported brands including Britannia Biscuits, National Foods, FOCO, Ajinomoto and Samai among others as part of our World Foods ranges.

With rapid expansion plans over next 3 years, we are planning on launching another 100 SKU’s this year, bringing new products and innovation to every sales channel. We are dramatically expanding our business with new capacity, new manufacturing capability and a much bigger commercial, marketing and buying team. We are embarking on a journey from specialist World Foods supplier to a leading FMCG mainstream manufacturer that is truly multi-channel and global.

• Salary: Competitive/negotiable
• Status: Temporary Role

Reporting to the Group Technical manager, we are recruiting on a temporary basis a Specification & Packaging Technologist.

Duties:

• Responsibility for the technical sign off for packaging, involving checking artwork against specifications through several stages.
• Write and maintain specifications generating the recipe information, ingredients declaration, nutritional and allergens information with all relevant legislation.
• Coordinate all information for new product specifications and transferring data into specific factory and customer requirements.
• Maintain product quality, safety, composition and labelling.
• Assess and trial packaging samples within factory environment for compatibility.
• Liaise with Packaging providers to ensure product compliance and specification database is maintained.
• To assist the technical team as required during customer visits and audits.

Personal Profile:

• A food related degree ideally or equivalent qualification
• Experience of the online retailer specification systems preferred
• Previous experience of conducting packaging trials and assessments
• Strong communication skills for dealing with suppliers and customers
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Strong understanding of the food manufacturing industry

The ideal candidate will be:

Competent using Microsoft office and retailer approval systems.

Have previous experience working in a similar role.

A good team player.

If you’re looking to work for a fast-paced manufacturing company, where you learn and develop machining and production skills, we would love to hear from you.

• Salary: From £11.00 (dependant on experience)
• Hours of Work: (minimum of 44 hours per week)
• Location: Harwich

We are seeking 3 Machine Operators with prior experience working within a manufacturing environment (preferably food manufacturing) to operate Rice and Snack lines.

Prior experience working in a similar position with an understanding of packaging / fryer operation is preferable but not essential as full training will be provided

Duties and responsibilities:

• Operating a range of production machinery (VFFS Machine)
• Carrying out production, inspection, packaging, and machine operating
• Perform appropriate duties as assigned by management
• Maintain a safe and clean workspace
• Follow established safety rules and regulations

Skills, qualifications and experience

• Able to work to targets/production KPI’s & production schedules.
• Be able to work as part of a team.
• Previous relevant manufacturing /production experience.
• FMCG knowledge is preferable
• A desire to grow and develop
• Be flexible and adapt to a constantly changing environment

Benefits

• Free onsite parking
• Company Pension Scheme
• Refer a friend scheme
• Canteen facilities
• PPE provided
• Training provided
• Staff Discount at one of our Surya chain of Hotels (after 6 months service)

Job description

• Location: Harwich
• Essex Full time / permanent
• Salary earnings potential £45k +

In addition to a very good hourly rate (which was increased in July 22) the Company has also recently introduced a bonus scheme which significantly enhances the earnings potential for all of our drivers. For full timers this equates to additional earnings potential of over £5,000 per annum (paid monthly) in addition to the base rate at £16 per hour. Immediate starts are available (subject to usual verification process)

The role itself…

Do you have HGV Class 1 experience?

Are you confident working unsupervised to deliver / collect goods for a Fast-paced Consumer Goods company?

Do you have good geographical knowledge?

Working out of our main distribution and warehousing site in Harwich, Essex we are looking for professional, experienced drivers to deliver to customers and clients both locally and nationwide within the UK.

What we require from a HGV CLASS 1 driver:

• Candidates must have excellent customer services skills.
• Be confident working unsupervised and willing to deliver/collect goods as required by our Logistics department.
• Reliability and flexibility is key
• Drivers CPC card essential
• An understanding of the law relating to drivers’ hours regulations and tachograph

Benefits

• Regular start time (7AM)
• Overnight parking expenses covered
• Own Truck
• Monday to Friday with some occasional / optional weekend work upon request
• Free onsite parking
• Company Pension Scheme
• Canteen facilities
• PPE provided
• Training provided
• Staff Discount at our Surya chain of Hotels (after 6 months service)

If you have permission to work in the UK, have held a valid licence for more than 2 years, have less than 6 points on your licence, digital tacho card, we would like to hear from you!