Job Details

Full Time, Permanent

Location: Bury St Edmunds

Salary Range: £60,000 to £67,000

Job Purpose

An exciting opportunity has arisen in our science team to support our business journey as a Science Manager.

This site-based role ensures the factory has the right scientific information at the right time to support excellent decision making, process control, product certification, quality, compliance and factory performance.

The successful incumbent will lead the site scientific services team, with core accountability for safe, accurate and timely laboratory services, technical accounting and local scientific support. The role will also provide process science subject matter expertise and practical technical support to the local factory.

This is an opportunity to develop scientific capability at site, work closely with operational teams and contribute to business-wide process science projects and initiatives. Business-wide process science leadership and direction sit with the Senior Science Manager - Process Science, with this role supporting delivery through local expertise, investigation and implementation.

Your core accountabilities

• Lead and develop the site science team to deliver safe, accurate, timely and reliable laboratory services.
• Ensure product-quality analysis, reporting, routine testing and compliance activity meet required standards and remain auditable.
• Own site technical accounting, translating hourly, daily and weekly technical data into clear management information and practical recommendations.
• Partner factory leadership and operational teams on technical investigations, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and delivery of local business improvement activity.
• Act as the local process science subject matter expert, providing credible scientific advice and practical technical support to factory teams.
• Coach, motivate and develop laboratory and scientific colleagues, building competence, resilience and succession strength within the site team.
• Provide visible health and safety leadership and role-model the British Sugar values and behaviours.
• Deliver defined local process science activities, including investigations, process optimisation support, trials and implementation of agreed improvements.
• Support business-wide process science projects and initiatives led by the Senior Science Manager - Process Science and the wider Process Development Team.
• Contribute site knowledge, scientific analysis and operational insight to help close performance gaps against true potential.
• Support the deployment of online instrumentation, new analytical technologies and Laboratory of the Future improvements where relevant to the site.
• Work flexibly, collaborate across British Sugar sites where required and provide on-call technical advice.

Critical Skills, Knowledge and Competencies

• Degree in a relevant scientific subject or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading, developing and motivating a scientific or laboratory team in an industrial environment.
• Credible industrial laboratory or factory scientific-services experience, with strong technical reporting, technical accounting and problem-solving capability.
• Applied process science knowledge and the ability to provide practical scientific support within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong analytical skills, high standards of data integrity and a proven continuous-improvement mindset.
• Ability to translate scientific and operational information into clear insights, recommendations and actions.
• Strong communication, coaching and influencing skills across laboratory, technical and operational teams.
• Commitment to health and safety, flexible working, site collaboration and the British Sugar values.

We are committed to creating an environment where all our people are treated with respect and given the opportunities to succeed. We want British Sugar to be a great, inclusive place to work for everyone.

A NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES:

We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a preferred supplier list for when we need a helping hand. We'll be in touch directly if we need you!

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