Location: Burnley
Function: Manufacturing
Job Reference: 8157
Employment Type: Fixed Term / Full Time
Closing Date: 24/7/2026
Date: 24 Jun 2026
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Role: Manufacturing Trainer
Location: Burnley
Contract: 12 Month FTC
Salary: Competitive
Are you working in a manufacturing environment and knead a new challenge? Do you have a passion for coaching and helping others grow? Our Burnley site are on the lookout for a Manufacturing Trainer to rise to the challenge and help our teams prove their potential!
The Recipe
At Warburtons, we believe in making every slice of life better – and that starts with our team. We're on the hunt for a Manufacturing Trainer who’s not just skilled, but also passionate about nurturing talent and promoting best practices throughout our Manufacturing department.
The Role
In this role, you'll be responsible for planning, designing, delivering, and evaluating training methods and manufacturing procedures to ensure our team is always at its best. You'll identify and develop training to help achieve multi-skilled teams, supporting our mission of continuous improvement. Communication is key, as you'll connect with people at all levels within the organization to share and implement best practices. Ensuring safety is paramount, you'll operate within statutory and company health and safety guidelines, maintaining a healthy, safe, and accident-free site. Supporting site with audits. Your flexibility will be essential as you adapt to and support the ever-changing needs of our business.
Essential Ingredients
You’ll bring a blend of top‑notch communication skills—listening actively and expressing yourself clearly—along with a passion for coaching and mentoring others so their skills can truly rise. You’re able to influence and negotiate with flexibility, manage your time and projects efficiently, and develop innovative solutions when challenges start to crumble. You make confident, timely decisions while considering wider risks, and you lead with positivity by giving constructive feedback, supporting colleagues in a non‑confrontational way, and guiding teams effectively through change.
Health and Safety Advocate: Encourage adherence to health and safety legislation, policies, and standards, taking action to maintain a safe work environment.
Effective Trainer: Train new and current personnel, ensuring the effectiveness of training is measured and adjustments are made as needed.
Champion of Consistency: Support the development of consistent training across all manufacturing areas, aligned with our Continuous Improvement programmes.
Adaptable Educator: Tailor your delivery style to suit one-on-one coaching or group training, ensuring the highest standards of training are met.
SOP Developer: Involve all staff in developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), creating a consistent on-the-job training package from development to evaluation
Extra Dough
And last but by no means least, you'll want to know what your breads worth.
A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
Family time is important to us so as well as your holiday entitlement, we'll give you the opportunity to purchase up to an extra weeks annual leave
Award winning pension scheme with company contributions
Life assurance
Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
Continued investment in your personal development
Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service
We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.
