Factory Trainer
FACTORY TRAINER
Monday – Friday, 07:30 to 16:00
40hrs contract
Cranswick Country Foods, Staithes Road, Preston, Hull, HU12 8TB
Cranswick is a leading UK food producer, with annual revenues exceeding £2.6 Billion. We are proud to produce and supply premium food to high profile UK grocery retailers, the food service sector and other UK and international customers.
We are currently seeking x2 Factory Trainers to join our Preston site - our primary Pork facility within the Hull and East Riding region. With significant ongoing investment and expansion, this is an exciting opportunity to be part of a fast-paced, forward-thinking site with plenty of scope to contribute and develop.
In this role, you will gain comprehensive experience across all aspects of Learning and Development at the Preston site. You will support training activities across multiple departments, applying your knowledge and experience where needed, and play a key role in delivering engaging inductions and onboarding programmes for new starters.
Main Duties Include (but not limited to)
- Ensure Food Safety, Health & safety rules and regulations are always followed.
- Ensure that all employees are compliant to work in a food production environment by analysing skills gaps on the IT systems in place.
- Updating skills matrix and certification of training completed by all employees, ensuring that all information entered is correct.
- Working on a day-to-day basis on all four training systems to support Dept Managers/Trainers, HR and Training with a live training matrix to give a precise and up to date completion of Training.
- Identifying compliance skills gaps across site to ensure as an organisation we are compliant with customers (Audit ready)
- Assume responsibility for the management of activities which ensure food safety, integrity, legality and quality
- Attend required training in line with current legislation, Health and Safety guidelines and changing departmental operations
- Book and manage internal/external training to meet business needs and development of employees.
- Identify and analyse learning needs: establish team and individual capability and learning gaps, in line with organisational performance outcomes and to enable effective evaluation.
- Use sound questioning and active listening skills to understand requirements and establish root causes i.e. establishing that it really is a learning/training need, before developing L&D solutions.
- Design, construct and structure training / learning resources to meet a variety of needs, which will include:
- Research of delivery options and resources including digital / online / blended solutions (including identifying existing resources)
- Evaluate the impact of learning solutions - measure and assess development initiatives for effectiveness, business relevance, efficiency, and continually seek ways to improve learning solutions.
- Consistently support colleagues / collaborate within the team and L&D to achieve results.
What We Look For:
- Experience in a similar role: Factory/Warehouse trainer, Training Coordinator
- Previous experience of FMCG manufacturing (preferably food related)
- Food Safety knowledge
- Strong level of IT skills: Excel, Word etc
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
What We Offer:
- Job stability at a growing and expanding company
- Strong commitment to progression and personal development through department specific training
- 28 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays)
- Purchase company shares through discounted share scheme
- Company pension scheme - up to 10% matched contribution
- Access to retail discount app, bike to work scheme, health and wellbeing platform
A full job description is available upon request.
To apply, please submit your CV & Cover Letter to: [email protected]
Closing Date: 30th April 2026
Please note that if a suitable candidate is found, this closing date may be brought forward.
If you are an internal applicant, please ensure you have made your line manager aware before applying and confirm this when submitting your application.