Packaging Technologist

Company Description

We are FBC UK, Fox's Burton's Companies! ……And we bake the UK's most incredible biscuits (we might be slightly biased, but we will leave that for you to judge).

FBC UK was a match made in heaven, with two of the top UK biscuits manufacturers (Burton's Biscuits and Fox's Biscuits) coming together to create one unique, integrated company.

We are home to famous iconic brands, including Maryland, Fox's, Jammie Dodger & Rocky, to name just a few. We are proud manufacturing partners to some of the biggest UK retailers and household names. We bake our incredible biscuits at eight bakeries across the UK, located at Isle of Arran, Livingston, Blackpool, Llantarnam, Edinburgh, Kirkham, Batley & Dorset and our HQ in St Albans.

Together, we employ circa 4,000 amazing colleagues across all our locations.

Whilst we know that we have delicious products we also know that that the key ingredient to our success is our people, and the passion we have for our brands. You could be the jammy to our dodger, party ring to our Fox’s or the choc-chip to our Maryland?! We knead people with innovative ideas, an entrepreneurial spirit, and the commitment to drive FBC UK to success.

We are committed to building an inclusive workforce that feels empowered to build a fulfilling and successful career. By embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) we create a supportive environment for people to thrive and strive to have more positive impact.

We understand that having formal and on-the-job learning opportunities is key to our colleagues’ professional and personal growth. We are committed to providing an environment where everyone can learn from each other and grow through a variety of learning experiences.

Our colleagues make our business special. With strong community values, we believe FBC UK is a more prosperous and fun place to work when people feel free to be themselves. We believe in the power of being authentic, entrepreneurial and supporting each other whilst meeting our business goals.

This is a Fixed Term Contract position until the end of August 2026.

We are seeking an experienced Line Operator or Junior Packaging Technologist to support the delivery of packaging industrialisation activities, ensuring the smooth and effective launch of packaging changes planned for the Batley and Edinburgh sites. This position requires a dynamic and proactive individual to organize packaging line trials, coordinate site-based artwork approvals and implement packaging specification activities associated with the new Master APP system.

You will play a pivotal role in supporting continuous packaging improvement projects, specification changes, and ensuring all packaging elements are delivered on time, in full, and within budget. You will also help define packaging cost saving opportunities to increase the efficiency of factory operations with primary focus on Batley. The successful candidate will champion knowledge-sharing across teams, ensure best practices, and drive visibility for packaging contributions at the site and beyond.

• Support planning and execution of packaging trials on production lines.
• Collaborate with teams to troubleshoot technical issues and optimise packaging performance.
• Report trial outcomes and identify issues, including transit tests and scalability assessments.
• Support migration, creation and onboarding of specifications to new Hamilton Grant systems.
• Support the delivery, compliance and entry of packaging data into the new Master App (Due Jan’26).
• Check and approve artworks in Flowzone.
• Build and maintain relationships with packaging suppliers and external agencies.

• Excellent communication through all the interactions/channels (meetings, daily updates).
• Preferable packing / packaging experience in a factory production environment.
• Strong track record of proposing, challenging, and enhancing all our innovations and guide the implementation in factory environment.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset, bringing a proactive, creative approach to problem-solving and innovation, driving bespoke solutions for the site.
• Technical curiosity to explore and trial new…