Beverage Site Launch & Process Lead

REFRESCO; Pontefract; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Regular pay reviews

28 days annual leave

Life assurance

33 days leave (with bank holidays)

Eye-care vouchers

Referral bonuses

GroceryAid

Discounts and wellbeing tools

Free onsite parking

Job summary

Refresco is seeking a Site Implementation Manager for its UK operations based at Bondgate. You will lead the introduction of new products, packaging, processes and customer launches into manufacturing, ensuring quality, food safety and regulatory compliance.

You will coordinate cross‑functional teams, manage trials and validations, drive continuous improvement, and build strong supplier and customer relationships to deliver launches on time and to specification.

Qualifications

• Experience in Technical, Quality, NPD or Manufacturing roles in food & beverage.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, quality systems, HACCP, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the successful introduction of new products, packaging, processes, and customer launches into manufacturing, ensuring projects meet quality, food safety, legal, and customer requirements.
• Act as the key link between Operations, NPD, customers, and suppliers to deliver launches efficiently and achieve objectives.
• Coordinate and oversee product trials, process validations, and packaging evaluations with clear success criteria and engagement from teams.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives including value engineering, process optimisation, and packaging/process changes.
• Conduct risk assessments and support HACCP reviews for new products, equipment, packaging, and processes with robust controls.
• Work with manufacturing teams to ensure new and existing products are produced efficiently to meet customer expectations.

Skills

Project management

Problem solving

Continuous improvement

Stakeholder management

Manufacturing

Food & beverage

Job description

Refresco is seeking a Site Implementation Manager for its UK operations based at Bondgate. You will lead the introduction of new products, packaging, processes and customer launches into manufacturing, ensuring quality, food safety and regulatory compliance.

You will coordinate cross‑functional teams, manage trials and validations, drive continuous improvement, and build strong supplier and customer relationships to deliver launches on time and to specification.