Production & Technical
Whether you’re aiming to become a world-renowned business manager or you’re more interested in pursuing a reputation as a first-class technical supremo, we’ll see that you excel – and then some. We offer an environment where everything is geared up to help those with real talent and ambition achieve great things faster than they ever thought possible.
You’ll find yourself dealing with important jobs from day one: How would you make sure every Polo is in mint condition? How can we improve the classic KitKat? What’s the next big idea in coffee? At Nestlé, you’ll be looking for the solutions to these kinds of questions every day of your working life.
Not only that, but as a member of our Production or Technical teams, you’ll have the satisfaction of seeing the fruits of your labour in shops and supermarkets, on posters and TVs, and in the hands (and mouths) of millions around the world. You’ll be right there at the birth of millions of packets of Polos, jars of NESCAFÉ and boxes of Shreddies. What’s more, you’ll have a hand in developing recipes for new products, help the first batch roll off the production line, and ensure the millionth and billionth one is just as delicious.
There’s a lot going on at our factories. Each unique department is full of opportunity that demands the very best from you – and we don’t let just anyone in. Aside from obvious talent, you’ll have to be flexible enough to move around our various sites.
Engineering
As well as being one immensely important round-the-clock operation, this is an impressively broad area of our work too. To meet demand for a 24-hour production line, various on-site teams ensure our machinery’s in tip-top condition at all times –assessing, overhauling and replacing machinery with as small a hitch as possible. With a can-do attitude and enthusiasm for seeing each project through – even if that means jetting across to other sites in other countries – you’ll soon be a prized member of the team and a highly respected chartered engineer too.
Packaging / Product Development
Working side-by-side with Marketing, our Technical bods get plenty of opportunity to show off their analytical and critical skills as they introduce innovative production methods and lead the development of new products. Utilising consumer insights as well as rigorous feasibility studies, pilots and testing schemes, they ensure we keep up with demand when the latest advertising campaigns and promotions go live. All pretty vital with a world-famous reputation to upkeep.
Quality Management
From pesticide standards way down our supply chain to taste-testing and storage conditions, our dedicated Quality Management teams have three very broad tasks: to ensure our products are safe for consumers; to see that they fulfil high expectations; and that they also meet stringent UK and EU standards. Join the team and your work will be appreciated by marketeers, factory managers and logistics experts, to name but a few. You could move into food science or regulation, but there’s so much to learn and do in Quality Management, you may never need to leave.
Manufacturing Performance
Whether its people, processes or the machines themselves, this team thrives on seeing that everything than can be made faster, more accurate, more resilient and more reliable – is. With best practice research as your guide, you’ll be a consultant figure here, using both technical and people skills as you work with teams to develop methodologies. You’ll draw up cost and benefit analyses – whatever it takes to highlight the impact your changes will make. After that, all that’s left is to implement them and stand back proudly.
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