marriage's millers
recruitment
- Warehouse Operative, Essex
- Commercial Manager, Essex
- Accounts Assistant, Essex
- General Manager, Lincolnshire
Warehouse Operative, Essex
W & H Marriage & Sons is looking for a Warehouse Operative at our site in Chelmsford city centre, Essex.
Company Profile:
Marriage's is a milling company, owned and run by the fifth and sixth generation of the Marriage family. Marriage's produce quality flour and animal feed. Our Chelmsford site has 110 employees across the mills, transport fleet and office.
The Role:
This is a multifunctional role in the Flour Warehouse including: picking orders, stacking product, dealing with rejected product, packing sacks of flour, loading bulk tankers, forklift truck driving and maintaining high standards of cleanliness in the warehouse.
The hours of work will be 10am to 7pm, Monday to Friday, with alternate Saturday working, 6am to noon.
Key tasks:
- Responsible for picking orders for distribution to customers and loading vehicles.
- Using a forklift truck to move product to onsite warehouses and ensuring stock rotation.
- Receiving, checking and labelling incoming ingredients and packaging before stowing these.
- Shunting goods vehicles for loading and unloading.
- Loading bulk tankers.
- Palletizing bran and middlings, and loading pallets for finished flour into palletizers.
- Wrapping pallet loads and labelling where necessary.
- Tipping sacks of reject flour for reworking.
- Operating the sack packing line, and maintenance and cleaning on packing equipment.
- Accurately completing production paperwork, loading documentation and cleaning records.
- Entering picking data accurately into the IT system. Printing of documentation if requested.
- Assisting in the prepack or flour mill, plus any other cross-functional duties as requested.
- Responsible for hygiene and housekeeping in the warehouse area.
- Complying with all company Health and Safety rules.
The Person:
We are looking for a candidate who will fit in to our small team, work with good attention to detail, and who has high personal and professional standards.
Essential:
- Able to prioritise workload.
- Numerate and literate.
- Comfortable working outdoors.
- Physically fit.
Desired:
- Current driving licence.
- Goods vehicle driving experience, shunting or professional.
- Fork Lift Truck licence.
- Warehouse / stores experience.
(Please note, only successful candidates will be contacted. No agencies.)
Commercial Manager, Essex
W & H Marriage & Sons is looking for an experienced and dynamic Commercial Manager, to head up the buying and selling functions of its feed milling operation at Chelmer Mills in Chelmsford, Essex.
The company operates feed and flour mills on the site and a staff of around 100. We supply farms (mainly poultry), agricultural merchants and pet food retailers, as well as own label. The company is family-owned and -directed, with a history of milling dating back to 1824.
Our corporate structure continues to grow. In 2012, we added group subsidiaries Marriage's Specialist Foods in Lincolnshire (food for small animals and pet birds) and Berry Ingredients in Yorkshire (straights trading). In 2018, the company was granted permission to develop a larger feed and flour facility on the edge Chelmsford.
This is a new position on the site's senior management committee, working closely with the directors. The role comprises management of materials procurement and feed pricing, but also of customer service and agricultural sales. You will be assisted in all areas by a young but talented team.
Essential skills
- Highly organised and efficient
- Confident leader and communicator
- Strong negotiator and problem-solver
Desirable experience
- Senior management
- Materials procurement
- Costing and pricing
- Customer service and account management
- Compound feed milling industry
Strong candidates with transferable skills and experience from other industries will be closely considered. We will offer a very competitive salary to reflect the candidate's experience. The package will include a company car and attractive pension scheme. Candidates must be willing to travel and stay away for short periods. The role could be full or part-time/flexible.
Accounts Assistant, Essex
W & H Marriage & Sons is looking for an Accounts Assistant at our site in Chelmsford city centre, Essex.
Company Profile:
Marriage's is a milling company, owned and run by the fifth and sixth generation of the Marriage family. Marriage's produce quality flour and animal feed. Our Chelmsford site has 110 employees across the office, mills and transport fleet.
The Role:
Working as part of our small Accounts team, this role involves the processing of invoices for goods and services received, as well as resolving queries from suppliers and management. The hours of work will be 830am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Key tasks:
- Oversees the purchase ledger process to ensure that an accurate, complete and well-organised purchase ledger is maintained
- Ensures invoices and credit notes are coded and matched to delivery notes in a timely manner; enters supplier invoices onto the AX system
- Prepares accruals and prepayments
- Reconciles supplier statements
- Oversees payment runs and ensures invoices are approved for payment
- Files invoices and statements
- Deals with purchase enquiries over phone or email
- Processes staff expenses
- Chases documentation and credit notes
- Sets up new supplier accounts
- Checks up on invoices and follows up with company departments for any missing information
- Covers some Accounts Receivable duties
- Covers weekly payroll
- Manages petty cash
The Person:
Essential:
- Prior experience in a similar role
- A team player, able to build relationships both internally and externally
- A clear communicator; in person, on the phone and email
- High standard of accuracy and excellent attention to detail
- Good numerical and organisational skills, able to meet deadlines
- Able to stay calm under pressure and manage own workload
- Confident in Microsoft Office, including Excel
- A positive, can-do attitude
Desirable:
- AX system experience
- Experience of food or animal feed manufacturing
General Manager, Lincolnshire
Job Purpose:-
To oversee all activities and ensure the smooth operation of the site. To ensure the site delivers the highest level of product quality and customer services and that all company procedures and rules are adhered to at all times. To continuously improve and develop the resources and structure at the site, to improve its performance and profitability.
Main Duties:-
- Responsible for managing all aspects of the Marriage's Driby Top site.
- Delivery of lean manufacturing, efficiency, continuous improvement, downtime reduction, cost and waste reduction.
- Develop and ensure the highest level of Health and Safety is implemented and adhered to across the site and all regulatory requirements are met.
- Responsibility for personnel management, recruitment, disciplinaries, training, submission of the payroll on the site and maintaining a motivated and effective team.
- Ensure that all working practices are maintained and adhered to, including the procedures laid out in the Company Handbook and other training manuals.
- Identify the optimum levels of staffing and management of this to fulfil customer demands.
- Working alongside the Technical Manager with all areas of joint responsibilities at the site.
- Management of the site Maintenance team and preventative maintenance. Preparing capital expenditure proposals, the board and implementing such developments.
- Ensuring the highest-level of internal support and customer service from the site.
- Communication of key strategic and tactical requirements internally and with all other stakeholders.
- Responsible for analysing and reporting all data and KPI's required to ensure good business planning.
- Forecast, manage and deliver production targets.
- Represent the site's interests in regards the development and innovation of the product range.
- Work alongside the Commercial & Stock Manager to ensure stock takes run smoothly and costings are accurate.
- Ensure the security of staff while at work and the assets both during working hours and out of hours.
- For all purchases ensure PO's are raised where required and oversee all expenditure at the site to ensure the best value is achieved for the company.
- Demonstrating an honest, fair but firm, positive and can-do approach at all times.
Education, Skills and Experience:-
- Membership of a professional body such as the Institute of Operations Management or the Chartered Management Institute would be beneficial.
- Knowledge and experience in lean production and manufacturing processes and techniques.
- Knowledge and experience of managing a site / division.
- Knowledge of process improvement techniques.
- Knowledge of business, finance and management principles.
- Knowledge of human resource principles and practices.
- Knowledge of machines and tools.
- Knowledge of engineering and technology principles and practices.
- Solid computer skills.
- Knowledge of Health and Safety.
Key Skills:-
- Confidence.
- Technical skills.
- Project management skills.
- Organisation and efficiency skills.
- Leadership and interpersonal skills.
- Critical thinking and problem solving skills.
- IT and numerical skills.
- Communication skills.
- Teamworking skills.
- Influencing and leading.
- Delegation.
- Adaptability.
Future Opportunities
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