📣 The exciting stuff

Supporting the manufacturing & fulfillment facility here at Rudie’s Kitchen in order to ensure that stock movements around the whole site run smoothly, and working with some of the best people in the area, this is a great time to join Butternut Box. In return for your tail-wagging dedication, we offer a competitive wage of £16.02 per hour (salary £34,268)

👋  A bit about the role

We are looking for a versatile and safety-conscious Shunter Driver to join our team. This is a unique "hybrid" role that requires a professional driver who is equally comfortable behind the wheel of a Class 1 vehicle and operating MHE within a fast-paced warehouse environment.

While your primary focus will be supporting our warehouse operations, your expertise as a Class 1 driver is essential for our shunting requirements.

• Shunting Operations: Responsible for the safe and efficient movement of LGVs and trailer units across our sites (Rudie’s Kitchen and Ace’s Pantry) and on the adjoining public road. You will manoeuvre units into storage or loading bays with precision.

• Warehouse Operations: Operating a variety of Mechanical Handling Equipment (MHE). While we primarily utilise Reach Trucks within our 10m fully racked chillers and freezers, you will also operate counterbalance and ride-on forklift trucks.

• Inventory & Systems: Perform accurate stock counts and system transactions to maintain inventory integrity.

• Quality & Safety: Conduct rigorous quality checks to ensure product specifications are met. You will work in a manner that prioritises safety, correctly wearing PPE and following all site procedures.

• Facility Standards: Maintain a ‘clean as you go’ approach, contributing to the hygiene of floors, walls, and conveyors, as well as assisting with waste processing and order packing.

• Performance: Work towards defined KPIs and participate in daily review meetings to help drive warehouse performance.

📣 A bit about us

At Butternut, our mission is to deliver health and happiness to dogs and their humans all over the world. In order to do just that, we need a hard-working team. And we need quite a big kitchen too. Which is precisely why we have built one.

Located in Doncaster, Rudie's Kitchen is where our Butternut meals (we currently have 12 recipes) will be gently cooked, using human-quality ingredients. Rudie's is also where we will be packaging our meals and boxing them for our customers all over the UK. We are a close nit team, with a that family feel, looking to welcome more like minded people to our lovely team and keep work life fun and enjoyable.

We are pleased to say, this is a full-time permanent contract, you will be working a rolling average of 41 hours per week working on a shift rotation with a mixture of days / nights and some weekend working. The working shifts days consisting of 7am to 7pm and nights consisting of 7pm-7am.

Such as:

• 4 on/ 4 off = 2 day, 2 nights
• 5 on, 5 off = 3 days, 2 nights
• 5 on, 5 off = 2 days, 3 nights

🐶  A bit about you

• Essential: Valid Class 1 (HGV Category C+E) license for shunting duties.
• Essential: A genuine willingness to work within a cold-store warehouse environment and undergo training on various Warehouse MHE (Reach, Counterbalance, etc.).
• Previous experience with Counterbalance, PPT, or LLOP is highly desirable.
• Confident in the use of warehouse IT equipment 
• Comfortable working in temperatures as low as -40 degrees and outside yard work (changing weather conditions)
• Able to be adaptable to an ever changing work environment with varied roles and responsibilities that can differ day to day
• Working level of speaking English 
• Ability to read English
• Numerate (able to understand and work with numbers)
• Good attention to detail
• Comfortable working in an environment that processes raw protein
• Committed to food quality & safety
• A supportive & helpful team member

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year, plus an extra 8 hours for each year of service (up to 40 hours).*
• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self care.*
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance and dental cover.
• Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthy
• Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
• Butternut branded uniform provided (fleece, footwear, hi-vis)
• Enrolment into the company pension scheme and sick pay
• Enhanced parental leave
• Private showers, changing facilities and dedicated locker space
• Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
• Comfy, bright and airy kitchen space with lunch making facilities and large screen TVs
• Free tea, coffee, and fruit (and pay day pizzas)
• Opportunity to grow, develop and learn with internal training programmes
• Be part of an energetic and high performing team
• Team socials & events
• Refer a friend bonus of up to £500
• Say goodbye to parking woes with free parking and electric car charging.

❗️A few things to note:

• This role is 100% based in our kitchen in Blyth, Doncaster (just off the Junction of A1(M) and A614 Hill Top Roundabout, Blyth S81 8HG)
• We don’t use external recruitment agencies for assistance on roles
• We aim to respond to all applicants personally, however, due to the high volume of applications we receive we are sometimes unable to respond to everyone
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career, if it makes your application easier for you please feel free to complete the application form in your native language, we are really happy to translate it afterwards.

#LI-Onsite

📣 The exciting stuff

Supporting the manufacturing & fulfillment facility here at Rudie’s Kitchen in order to ensure that stock movements around the whole site run smoothly, and working with some of the best people in the area, this is a great time to join Butternut Box. In return for your tail-wagging dedication, we offer a competitive wage of £16.02 per hour (salary £34,268)

👋  A bit about the role

We are looking for a versatile and safety-conscious Shunter Driver to join our team. This is a unique "hybrid" role that requires a professional driver who is equally comfortable behind the wheel of a Class 1 vehicle and operating MHE within a fast-paced warehouse environment.

While your primary focus will be supporting our warehouse operations, your expertise as a Class 1 driver is essential for our shunting requirements.

• Shunting Operations: Responsible for the safe and efficient movement of LGVs and trailer units across our sites (Rudie’s Kitchen and Ace’s Pantry) and on the adjoining public road. You will manoeuvre units into storage or loading bays with precision.

• Warehouse Operations: Operating a variety of Mechanical Handling Equipment (MHE). While we primarily utilise Reach Trucks within our 10m fully racked chillers and freezers, you will also operate counterbalance and ride-on forklift trucks.

• Inventory & Systems: Perform accurate stock counts and system transactions to maintain inventory integrity.

• Quality & Safety: Conduct rigorous quality checks to ensure product specifications are met. You will work in a manner that prioritises safety, correctly wearing PPE and following all site procedures.

• Facility Standards: Maintain a ‘clean as you go’ approach, contributing to the hygiene of floors, walls, and conveyors, as well as assisting with waste processing and order packing.

• Performance: Work towards defined KPIs and participate in daily review meetings to help drive warehouse performance.

📣 A bit about us

At Butternut, our mission is to deliver health and happiness to dogs and their humans all over the world. In order to do just that, we need a hard-working team. And we need quite a big kitchen too. Which is precisely why we have built one.

Located in Doncaster, Rudie's Kitchen is where our Butternut meals (we currently have 12 recipes) will be gently cooked, using human-quality ingredients. Rudie's is also where we will be packaging our meals and boxing them for our customers all over the UK. We are a close nit team, with a that family feel, looking to welcome more like minded people to our lovely team and keep work life fun and enjoyable.

We are pleased to say, this is a full-time permanent contract, you will be working a rolling average of 41 hours per week working on a shift rotation with a mixture of days / nights and some weekend working. The working shifts days consisting of 7am to 7pm and nights consisting of 7pm-7am.

Such as:

• 4 on/ 4 off = 2 day, 2 nights
• 5 on, 5 off = 3 days, 2 nights
• 5 on, 5 off = 2 days, 3 nights

🐶  A bit about you

• Essential: Valid Class 1 (HGV Category C+E) license for shunting duties.
• Essential: A genuine willingness to work within a cold-store warehouse environment and undergo training on various Warehouse MHE (Reach, Counterbalance, etc.).
• Previous experience with Counterbalance, PPT, or LLOP is highly desirable.
• Confident in the use of warehouse IT equipment 
• Comfortable working in temperatures as low as -40 degrees and outside yard work (changing weather conditions)
• Able to be adaptable to an ever changing work environment with varied roles and responsibilities that can differ day to day
• Working level of speaking English 
• Ability to read English
• Numerate (able to understand and work with numbers)
• Good attention to detail
• Comfortable working in an environment that processes raw protein
• Committed to food quality & safety
• A supportive & helpful team member

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year, plus an extra 8 hours for each year of service (up to 40 hours).*
• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self care.*
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance and dental cover.
• Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthy
• Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
• Butternut branded uniform provided (fleece, footwear, hi-vis)
• Enrolment into the company pension scheme and sick pay
• Enhanced parental leave
• Private showers, changing facilities and dedicated locker space
• Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
• Comfy, bright and airy kitchen space with lunch making facilities and large screen TVs
• Free tea, coffee, and fruit (and pay day pizzas)
• Opportunity to grow, develop and learn with internal training programmes
• Be part of an energetic and high performing team
• Team socials & events
• Refer a friend bonus of up to £500
• Say goodbye to parking woes with free parking and electric car charging.

❗️A few things to note:

• This role is 100% based in our kitchen in Blyth, Doncaster (just off the Junction of A1(M) and A614 Hill Top Roundabout, Blyth S81 8HG)
• We don’t use external recruitment agencies for assistance on roles
• We aim to respond to all applicants personally, however, due to the high volume of applications we receive we are sometimes unable to respond to everyone
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career, if it makes your application easier for you please feel free to complete the application form in your native language, we are really happy to translate it afterwards.

#LI-Onsite

📣  A bit about the role:

You might know this role as a Facilities Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, or Manufacturing Engineer, but here at Butternut Box, we call it a Multi-Skilled Engineer. As a Multi Skilled Engineer for a dual site operation, Rudie’s Kitchen, our Manufacturing Site and Ace’s Pantry, our UK Warehouse & Fulfilment Centre, you will have full accountability for the Efficient up-keep of all production, fulfilment and site services equipment.

The Engineer needs to be able to fault-find and problem-solve on a broad range of equipment and situations, which is key to resolving technical/engineering issues in a high-volume production environment where keeping the plant running safely and efficiently is the prime objective.

We are pleased to say, this is a full-time permanent contract, you will be working a rolling average of 41 hours per week working on a shift rotation with a mixture of days / nights and some weekend working. The working shifts days consisting of 6am to 6pm and nights consisting of 6pm-6am.

Such as:

• 4 on, 4 off = 2 day, 2 nights
• 5 on, 5 off = 3 days, 2 nights
• 5 on, 5 off = 2 days, 3 nights

In this role, you can expect to…

• Partner with our production and fulfilment teams to ensure the full availability of people, knowledge, skills and equipment to keep us cooking (and to be able to cook more as we scale).
• Be an expert, guide and coach demonstrating shift leadership during the day-to-day running of the Kitchen, advising and sharing a view of how we can operate during proactive and reactive requirements with the shift leadership team.
• Be readily available and the first point of contact to diagnose and fix plant issues, including site services. 
• Own and drive the reliability of our machinery and react promptly and proactively to breakdown issues escalated across the entire Kitchen whilst on duty.
• To provide the final port of call for our teams in diagnosing reasons for the plant not running to Standard Operating Conditions and being the highest technical skill within the factory's day-to-day operation.
• Carrying out Root Cause Analysis of efficiency losses & significant breakdowns. 
• To drive the CI plan for your area of ownership, working alongside the days-based Engineering Team
• Being a key part of the operations team through short interval control meetings, collaborating cross functionally and supporting Op’s with coaching, SOP writing and Technical Training.
• Ensure a robust and informative handover to the oncoming shift to ensure activity continues cohesively, equally ensuring handover to the other side so we can always be moving things forward.

Rudies & Aces systems:

Provide site Services (Cooling systems, steam, air, water, gas and electricity) and full site asset install base (Mixing, Filling, Cooking, Freezing & Fulfilment).

👋  A bit about you

• Strong multi-skilled engineering background including completion of a recognised apprenticeship.
• Multi Skilled Engineer with electrical bias, ideally with strong experience in Electrical diagnostics.
• Qualified to HNC level in an Engineering discipline.
• Hungry for a challenge and keen to grow something to our next phase of growth
• Excellent Communication skills, able to engage with shift operations teams
• P.C literate in: Cloud based system, ideally Google Suite, etc.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in an Engineering or Senior Technician Role
• Supervisory experience with broad working knowledge of relevant safety legislation.
• Well practised planning, organisation and scheduling skills.
• Ability to coach and train, leading others by example.
• Easily approachable with good interpersonal skills, with creative thinking and analytical skills
• Loves dogs (naturally)

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year (equivalent to 33 days holiday)*
• Plus an extra day for each year of service (up to 5 days).*
• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self care.* (equivalent to 5 days)
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
• Enhanced parental leave (52 weeks’ maternity leave inclusive of 26 weeks fully paid and 6 weeks fully paid paternity/secondary leave)
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Vitality Healthcare.
• Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthy
• Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
• Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
• Say goodbye to parking woes with free parking and electric car charging.
• Team socials & events
• Prepare for adorable office dog overload—meet Cleo, Paxo, Cali, Ronnie, Harvey, Milo, and many more!
• Holidays and Paws days are pro-rata for those working part time or job share

🐶 A bit about Butternut

At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That’s why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions.

Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives whilst leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, we now feed a lot of dogs across the UK - but we want to feed dogs everywhere. And to do this, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work with us. 

Butternut has come a long way since Kev & Dave (co-founders) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, and they are now looking for brilliant people to join the team for this next part of the story.

❗️A few things to note: 

• There is no closing date for this role. However, we normally experience a high volume of applications so if you are interested we suggest applying as soon as possible.
• We aim to respond to all applicants personally. Our recruitment team is small so do bear with us.
• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.

Role: Team Leader

Career Step Level: Step level 3

Location: Blyth, Worksop

📣A bit about the role

Do you have the passion and desire to constantly strive for better? Have genuine care for dogs, their humans and our team (squad members), want to create a best in class customer experience and all whilst making it a great place to work. Then this is the job for you!

As a Production Team Leader, you will lead a team to deliver our production plan to feed our happy and healthy dogs. Doing this whilst driving high team performance, embracing all aspects of the culture and functional requirements, making continuous improvements and elevating us to the next level. Reporting into the Shift Operations Manager, you’ll support the daily operations and ensure our dogs are provided with the very best human-quality meals.

A bit more detail

Operational Requirements 

• Accountable for our health and safety standards on shift, the upkeep and delivery through conducting daily Health and Safety audits with your Squad members, raising corrective actions to any nasties you may find and owning the resolution.
• Be competent in completing thorough Accident Investigations through root cause analysis and completing near-miss reports. Ensuring that corrective actions are raised and closed out in a timely manner. 
• Review training and development of staff through all areas of the kitchen by ensuring that Squad members are trained against relevant SOPs and other required training and documentation.
• Ensure that labour is managed effectively to ensure production can be maintained through the management of holidays and absences. Proactively managing and identifying issues.
• Quality & hygiene standards are increasingly important to us, so we ensure that GMP standards are maintained at all times. As well as verification of IMS checks from the cooking of our products to the cleaning of all our equipment. 
• Provide supervision, support and leadership to the Production team in pursuit of key operational metrics of quality, output and waste. Ensuring that you are reactive in times of deviations from the agreed targets.
• Have had some experience in leading continuous improvements and problem-solving initiatives, which contribute to savings within the department/company.

Communication & Partnership

• Be able to communicate clearly and effectively with the SLT team when needed, particularly in times when the Shift Operations Manager may be away from the business. 
• Ensure daily handovers between departments are completed - ensuring the relevant detail is captured so each shift oncoming is a success. 
• Work closely with the procurement and planning team to ensure meal output meets sales demand.
• Work well with multiple functional teams, including People, Engineering, Technical, Warehouse and Order fulfilment to drive well thought-out and cohesive plans

Our Culture & Values 

• Understanding that squad member engagement drives operational excellence and People Leaders play a crucial role in making Butternut Box the best place they’ve ever worked.
• Be present in the Kitchen, ensuring you are available to proactively support the team, help find solutions and take action to change. 
• Messages and key communications are delivered to the teams and key stakeholders in a timely and accurate manner. You’ll have an excellent awareness of how your communication style impacts others, and you’ll tailor this to your audience. 
• Confidently undertake meaningful and regular 1:1’s with Squad members, ensuring they feel heard and that their feedback is important to you. You’ll consider their career aspirations, skills and background and tailor your style to their needs.

🔎 A bit about you

• Strong production background in an FMCG manufacturing environment
• Experience in a high-speed volume manufacturing environment
• Leadership experience with a broad working knowledge of relevant safety legislation
• Pragmatic, adaptable, resilient and humble
• Well-practised planning, organisation and scheduling skills
• Someone who loves the pace and excitement of FMCG manufacturing
• Hungry for a challenge and keen to build something from the ground up
• Easily approachable with good interpersonal skills, with creative thinking and analytical skills
• Drives for results, action-oriented, problem-solving, and priority setting
• Loves dogs (naturally)

🐶  A bit about Butternut

Delivering on our promise of "Fresh food, Happy dogs" requires operational excellence at every step. Our Doncaster site, made up of Rudie’s Kitchen (manufacturing) and Ace’s Pantry (Order Fulfilment and Warehouse) are where our meals are gently cooked, and then packed with care for our customers, through the people who manage our flow, quality, and distribution.

We are moving beyond the scale-up phase of the operation to a place where excellence happens every day. To do this, we need forward-thinking individuals who see the big picture and want to play a hands-on role in a complex, fast-moving operation. If you believe dogs deserve better and you have the drive to help us deliver it, we want to hear from you.

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year, plus an extra 8 hours for each year of service (up to 40 hours).*
• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self-care.*
• Enrollment into our EAP Telus offering free financial planning, counselling, mental health support and more
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance and dental cover.
• Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthy
• Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
• Butternut branded uniform provided (fleece, footwear, hi-vis)
• Enrolment into the company pension scheme and sick pay
• Enhanced parental leave
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Aka Healthcare.
• Private showers, changing facilities and dedicated locker space
• Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
• Comfy, bright and airy kitchen space with lunch making facilities and large screen TVs
• Free tea, coffee, and fruit (and pay day pizzas)
• Opportunity to grow, develop and learn with internal training programmes
• Be part of an energetic and high performing team
• Team socials & events
• Refer a friend bonus of up to £500
• Say goodbye to parking woes with free parking and electric car charging.

‼️  A few things to note

• There is no closing date for this role. However, we normally experience a high volume of applications so if you are interested we suggest applying as soon as possible.
• We aim to respond to all applicants personally. Our recruitment team is small so do bear with us.
• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.
• You might know this role as a Shift Manager, Production Manager, Team Manager or Assistant Operations Manager, in Butternut Box we call this role a Team Leader
• We are not looking for external agency support with this role.

Role: Team Leader

Career Step Level: Step level 3

Location: Blyth, Worksop

📣A bit about the role

Do you have the passion and desire to constantly strive for better? Have genuine care for dogs, their humans and our team (squad members), want to create a best in class customer experience and all whilst making it a great place to work. Then this is the job for you!

As a Production Team Leader, you will lead a team to deliver our production plan to feed our happy and healthy dogs. Doing this whilst driving high team performance, embracing all aspects of the culture and functional requirements, making continuous improvements and elevating us to the next level. Reporting into the Shift Operations Manager, you’ll support the daily operations and ensure our dogs are provided with the very best human-quality meals.

A bit more detail

Operational Requirements 

• Accountable for our health and safety standards on shift, the upkeep and delivery through conducting daily Health and Safety audits with your Squad members, raising corrective actions to any nasties you may find and owning the resolution.
• Be competent in completing thorough Accident Investigations through root cause analysis and completing near-miss reports. Ensuring that corrective actions are raised and closed out in a timely manner. 
• Review training and development of staff through all areas of the kitchen by ensuring that Squad members are trained against relevant SOPs and other required training and documentation.
• Ensure that labour is managed effectively to ensure production can be maintained through the management of holidays and absences. Proactively managing and identifying issues.
• Quality & hygiene standards are increasingly important to us, so we ensure that GMP standards are maintained at all times. As well as verification of IMS checks from the cooking of our products to the cleaning of all our equipment. 
• Provide supervision, support and leadership to the Production team in pursuit of key operational metrics of quality, output and waste. Ensuring that you are reactive in times of deviations from the agreed targets.
• Have had some experience in leading continuous improvements and problem-solving initiatives, which contribute to savings within the department/company.

Communication & Partnership

• Be able to communicate clearly and effectively with the SLT team when needed, particularly in times when the Shift Operations Manager may be away from the business. 
• Ensure daily handovers between departments are completed - ensuring the relevant detail is captured so each shift oncoming is a success. 
• Work closely with the procurement and planning team to ensure meal output meets sales demand.
• Work well with multiple functional teams, including People, Engineering, Technical, Warehouse and Order fulfilment to drive well thought-out and cohesive plans

Our Culture & Values 

• Understanding that squad member engagement drives operational excellence and People Leaders play a crucial role in making Butternut Box the best place they’ve ever worked.
• Be present in the Kitchen, ensuring you are available to proactively support the team, help find solutions and take action to change. 
• Messages and key communications are delivered to the teams and key stakeholders in a timely and accurate manner. You’ll have an excellent awareness of how your communication style impacts others, and you’ll tailor this to your audience. 
• Confidently undertake meaningful and regular 1:1’s with Squad members, ensuring they feel heard and that their feedback is important to you. You’ll consider their career aspirations, skills and background and tailor your style to their needs.

🔎 A bit about you

• Strong production background in an FMCG manufacturing environment
• Experience in a high-speed volume manufacturing environment
• Leadership experience with a broad working knowledge of relevant safety legislation
• Pragmatic, adaptable, resilient and humble
• Well-practised planning, organisation and scheduling skills
• Someone who loves the pace and excitement of FMCG manufacturing
• Hungry for a challenge and keen to build something from the ground up
• Easily approachable with good interpersonal skills, with creative thinking and analytical skills
• Drives for results, action-oriented, problem-solving, and priority setting
• Loves dogs (naturally)

🐶  A bit about Butternut

Delivering on our promise of "Fresh food, Happy dogs" requires operational excellence at every step. Our Doncaster site, made up of Rudie’s Kitchen (manufacturing) and Ace’s Pantry (Order Fulfilment and Warehouse) are where our meals are gently cooked, and then packed with care for our customers, through the people who manage our flow, quality, and distribution.

We are moving beyond the scale-up phase of the operation to a place where excellence happens every day. To do this, we need forward-thinking individuals who see the big picture and want to play a hands-on role in a complex, fast-moving operation. If you believe dogs deserve better and you have the drive to help us deliver it, we want to hear from you.

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year, plus an extra 8 hours for each year of service (up to 40 hours).*
• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self-care.*
• Enrollment into our EAP Telus offering free financial planning, counselling, mental health support and more
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance and dental cover.
• Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthy
• Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
• Butternut branded uniform provided (fleece, footwear, hi-vis)
• Enrolment into the company pension scheme and sick pay
• Enhanced parental leave
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Aka Healthcare.
• Private showers, changing facilities and dedicated locker space
• Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
• Comfy, bright and airy kitchen space with lunch making facilities and large screen TVs
• Free tea, coffee, and fruit (and pay day pizzas)
• Opportunity to grow, develop and learn with internal training programmes
• Be part of an energetic and high performing team
• Team socials & events
• Refer a friend bonus of up to £500
• Say goodbye to parking woes with free parking and electric car charging.

‼️  A few things to note

• There is no closing date for this role. However, we normally experience a high volume of applications so if you are interested we suggest applying as soon as possible.
• We aim to respond to all applicants personally. Our recruitment team is small so do bear with us.
• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.
• You might know this role as a Shift Manager, Production Manager, Team Manager or Assistant Operations Manager, in Butternut Box we call this role a Team Leader
• We are not looking for external agency support with this role.

📣  A bit about the role:

You might know this role as a Facilities Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, or Manufacturing Engineer, but here at Butternut Box, we call it a Multi-Skilled Engineer. As a Multi Skilled Engineer for a dual site operation, Rudie’s Kitchen, our Manufacturing Site and Ace’s Pantry, our UK Warehouse & Fulfilment Centre, you will have full accountability for the Efficient up-keep of all production, fulfilment and site services equipment.

The Engineer needs to be able to fault-find and problem-solve on a broad range of equipment and situations, which is key to resolving technical/engineering issues in a high-volume production environment where keeping the plant running safely and efficiently is the prime objective.

We are pleased to say, this is a full-time permanent contract, you will be working a rolling average of 41 hours per week working on a shift rotation with a mixture of days / nights and some weekend working. The working shifts days consisting of 6am to 6pm and nights consisting of 6pm-6am.

Such as:

• 4 on, 4 off = 2 day, 2 nights
• 5 on, 5 off = 3 days, 2 nights
• 5 on, 5 off = 2 days, 3 nights

In this role, you can expect to…

• Partner with our production and fulfilment teams to ensure the full availability of people, knowledge, skills and equipment to keep us cooking (and to be able to cook more as we scale).
• Be an expert, guide and coach demonstrating shift leadership during the day-to-day running of the Kitchen, advising and sharing a view of how we can operate during proactive and reactive requirements with the shift leadership team.
• Be readily available and the first point of contact to diagnose and fix plant issues, including site services. 
• Own and drive the reliability of our machinery and react promptly and proactively to breakdown issues escalated across the entire Kitchen whilst on duty.
• To provide the final port of call for our teams in diagnosing reasons for the plant not running to Standard Operating Conditions and being the highest technical skill within the factory's day-to-day operation.
• Carrying out Root Cause Analysis of efficiency losses & significant breakdowns. 
• To drive the CI plan for your area of ownership, working alongside the days-based Engineering Team
• Being a key part of the operations team through short interval control meetings, collaborating cross functionally and supporting Op’s with coaching, SOP writing and Technical Training.
• Ensure a robust and informative handover to the oncoming shift to ensure activity continues cohesively, equally ensuring handover to the other side so we can always be moving things forward.

Rudies & Aces systems:

Provide site Services (Cooling systems, steam, air, water, gas and electricity) and full site asset install base (Mixing, Filling, Cooking, Freezing & Fulfilment).

👋  A bit about you

• Strong multi-skilled engineering background including completion of a recognised apprenticeship.
• Multi Skilled Engineer with electrical bias, ideally with strong experience in Electrical diagnostics.
• Qualified to HNC level in an Engineering discipline.
• Hungry for a challenge and keen to grow something to our next phase of growth
• Excellent Communication skills, able to engage with shift operations teams
• P.C literate in: Cloud based system, ideally Google Suite, etc.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in an Engineering or Senior Technician Role
• Supervisory experience with broad working knowledge of relevant safety legislation.
• Well practised planning, organisation and scheduling skills.
• Ability to coach and train, leading others by example.
• Easily approachable with good interpersonal skills, with creative thinking and analytical skills
• Loves dogs (naturally)

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year (equivalent to 33 days holiday)*
• Plus an extra day for each year of service (up to 5 days).*
• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self care.* (equivalent to 5 days)
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
• Enhanced parental leave (52 weeks’ maternity leave inclusive of 26 weeks fully paid and 6 weeks fully paid paternity/secondary leave)
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Vitality Healthcare.
• Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthy
• Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
• Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
• Say goodbye to parking woes with free parking and electric car charging.
• Team socials & events
• Prepare for adorable office dog overload—meet Cleo, Paxo, Cali, Ronnie, Harvey, Milo, and many more!
• Holidays and Paws days are pro-rata for those working part time or job share

🐶 A bit about Butternut

At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That’s why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions.

Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives whilst leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, we now feed a lot of dogs across the UK - but we want to feed dogs everywhere. And to do this, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work with us. 

Butternut has come a long way since Kev & Dave (co-founders) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, and they are now looking for brilliant people to join the team for this next part of the story.

❗️A few things to note: 

• There is no closing date for this role. However, we normally experience a high volume of applications so if you are interested we suggest applying as soon as possible.
• We aim to respond to all applicants personally. Our recruitment team is small so do bear with us.
• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.

Role: Engineering Team Leader

Career Step Level: Step level 3.0

Location: Blyth, Worksop

📣A bit about the role

This is a great opportunity to join Butternut at an important point for the engineering function in Blyth, Worksop. As Engineering Team Leader, you’ll lead the full Engineering shift, supporting engineers through the day-to-day reality of a busy production environment while helping create a more connected, resilient and high-performing team.

You’ll sit within the site engineering team and play a key role in bridging engineering with wider operations. It’s an exciting time to join because the team is evolving, and this role offers real scope to bring strong leadership, technical credibility and a fresh perspective that helps shape how the function grows.

A bit more detail

In this role, you can expect to…

• Lead and support a team of engineers on shift, setting the tone for performance, accountability and engagement in a fast-paced environment.
• Drive strong cross-functional working with operations and other site teams, building effective relationships and helping create better alignment across the business.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership during day-to-day engineering activity, including responding to challenges and supporting the team through operational issues.
• Coach and manage people effectively, holding regular conversations, giving feedback and helping individuals develop their capability over time.
• Help bring structure and maturity to the function by identifying opportunities to improve ways of working and embedding practical processes that support the team.
• Keep the team focused through changing demands, maintaining momentum during busy periods and helping people stay motivated through peaks and troughs in performance or workload.

🔎 A bit about you

•  
• You bring strong leadership experience from an engineering environment and know how to get the best from people.
• You’re technically credible, with a solid mechanical or electrical background and the confidence to lead in a hands-on setting.
• You’re a personable relationship-builder who can work well with different teams and create trust across functions.
• You’re adaptable and resilient, able to stay calm under pressure and lead positively through challenge and change.
• You have good commercial awareness and sound judgement, understanding how engineering decisions connect to the wider needs of the business.
• You love dogs, and you care about being part of a business with a clear mission.

🐶  A bit about Butternut

At Butternut, the mission is to deliver health and happiness to dogs and their humans all over the world. In order to do just that, we need a team of forward-thinking, driven people who love dogs as much as we do. And we need some pretty impressive kitchens to make it happen.

While Rudie's Kitchen and Ace's Pantry in Doncaster remain the heart of our UK operations (where you will be based), we’ve recently taken a massive leap forward with Sam’s Kitchen in Poland, going live in January this year. This expansion is a huge part of our story, allowing us to bring our gently cooked, human-quality meals to even more four-legged friends across Europe.

We believe dogs deserve better, and we wouldn't serve food to them that we wouldn't be happy to eat ourselves. Butternut has come a long way since Kev & Dave (our co-founders) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, and with our new international footprint, we are looking for brilliant people to join us for this next chapter.

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year (equivalent to 33 days holiday)*Plus an extra day for each year of service (up to 5 days).*
• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self-care.* (equivalent to 5 days)
• Enrollment into our EAP “Telus” offering free financial planning, counselling, mental health support and more
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
• Enhanced parental leave
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Axa Healthcare.
• Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthy
• Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
• Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
• Say goodbye to parking woes with onsite parking and electric car charging.
• Team socials & events
• Prepare for adorable office dog overload—meet Cleo, Otto, Cali, Ronnie, Harvey, Ralph, and many more!

*Holidays and Paws days are pro-rata for those working part time or job share

‼️  A few things to note

• There is no closing date for this role. However, we normally experience a high volume of applications so if you are interested we suggest applying as soon as possible.
• We aim to respond to all applicants personally. Our recruitment team is small so do bear with us.
• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.
• We are not looking for external agency support with this role.

Role: Sustainability Specialist

Career Step Level: Step level 2.0

Location: Blyth, Worksop

Salary: £35,000

Hours: This is a full-time, Monday to Friday position, based on-site. The role follows standard office hours, and regular on-site presence (5 days per week) is required to support day-to-day operations and collaboration with our teams.

📣A bit about the role

We are looking for someone with a solid understanding of sustainability combined with strong data skills to drive meaningful sustainability improvements across our business.

As a Sustainability Specialist at Butternut Box, your day-to-day work will be a dynamic blend of cross-functional collaboration as well as independent initiatives. You will work to ensure our sustainability reporting is accurate, complete, accessible and insightful, as well as partnering with teams to deliver practical initiatives, from reducing water usage to improving recycling. 

As a proud B Corp, sustainability is embedded in our culture; so this is a key role in helping our business reduce our impact further and faster. 

🔎A bit more detail

• Work with a wide range of teams across the business in all locations on initiatives to further improve our impact, taking a proactive approach to following up on issues.
• Collect, validate, and manage sustainability-related data used for the calculation of our carbon footprint, energy consumption, waste, water usage and packaging metrics.
• Support tracking our carbon and environmental targets by identifying trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement,
• Assist in the preparation of regular sustainability and ESG reports and dashboards for both internal communication of sustainability performance and regulatory reporting.
• Be a key point person for sustainability across our business, providing sustainability knowledge and support on cross-functional initiatives, across both our manufacturing sites.
• Become an Specialist in utilising our carbon accounting and ESG data platform, for data collection, reporting and scenario modelling of both carbon and other environmental data to predict future impact and define reduction strategies and goals.
• Ensure smooth data management by regularly maintaining automated feeds and uploading manual carbon and environmental data to our carbon accounting and ESG platform, working with internal teams to resolve any issues.

👇 A bit about you

• You will have a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Sustainability or a related field, or have gained relevant experience within this field.
• Experience in data work, with an understanding of sustainability metrics and carbon accounting at both a business activity and product carbon footprint level, is beneficial.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Capability to navigate complex stakeholders, build relationships, and problem-solve with others.
• Ability to learn new tools, systems, and subject matter quickly.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, customer-facing business environment.
• Good planning, organisation and prioritisation skills to juggle multiple demands on time.
• Flexibility around travelling and working out of different locations across the UK and Europe.
• Knowledge of B-Corp is nice to have.

Technical Tools:

• Strong proficiency in Google or Microsoft Suite.
• Proficiency in Data visualisation tools (such as Looker).
• Sweep or other carbon data platforms - nice to have.
• SQL - nice to have.

🐶  A bit about Butternut

At Butternut, the mission is to deliver health and happiness to dogs and their humans all over the world. In order to do just that, we need a team of forward-thinking, driven people who love dogs as much as we do. And we need some pretty impressive kitchens to make it happen.

While Rudie's Kitchen and Ace's Pantry in Doncaster remain the heart of our UK operations, we’ve recently taken a massive leap forward with Sam’s Kitchen in Poland, going live in January this year. This expansion is a huge part of our story, allowing us to bring our gently cooked, human-quality meals to even more four-legged friends across Europe.

We believe dogs deserve better, and we wouldn't serve food to them that we wouldn't be happy to eat ourselves. Butternut has come a long way since Kev & Dave (our co-founders) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, and with our new international footprint, we are looking for brilliant people to join us for this next chapter.

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year (equivalent to 33 days holiday)*Plus an extra day for each year of service (up to 5 days).*39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self-care.* (equivalent to 5 days)Enrollment into our EAP “Telus” offering free financial planning, counselling, mental health support and moreUnlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.Enhanced parental leaveGet discounted Private Medical Insurance with Axa Healthcare.Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthySatisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.Say goodbye to parking woes with free parking and electric car charging.Team socials & eventsPrepare for adorable office dog overload—meet Cleo, Otto, Cali, Ronnie, Harvey, Ralph, and many more!

📢 Our interview process:

• Application review
• Initial call (30 minutes): Introductory chat with our Talent Partner.
• Technical interview (1 hour): This will be a remote call for the team to learn more about your skills and experience.These will begin w/c 27th April 2026
• In person values interview (1 hour): In person interviews in our office at our Rudie’s/Ace’s Kitchen ( Blyth, Worksop) where you will meet with key stakeholders. You will be asked a blend of competency questions, values based questions and getting to know you personally.

‼️  A few things to note

• There is no closing date for this role. However, we normally experience a high volume of applications so if you are interested we suggest applying as soon as possible.
• We aim to respond to all applicants personally. Our recruitment team is small so do bear with us.
• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.
• We are not looking for external agency support with this role.

Role: Fulfilment Team Leader

Career Step Level: Step level 3

Location: Blyth, Worksop
This is an on-site shift-based role, based in Blyth, Worksop.

📣A bit about the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a high-calibre Fulfilment Team Leader to join our Butternut Box site in Blyth. As Team Leader, you’ll play a key role in helping the fulfilment operation run smoothly, making sure orders are delivered on time and in full to our customers whilst maintaining high standards across service delivery and, of course, our squad.

Reporting to the Fulfilment Manager, you’ll be part of a fast-paced, state-of-the-art 120,000 Square foot Fulfilment facility. You’ll work closely with teams across Production, Warehouse, Technical and Engineering as well as third-party contractors and suppliers. It’s an exciting time to join the business with big plans for growth and expansion across Europe, where your leadership will help shape performance, develop and engage your team, and contribute to the next chapter of our Butternut story.

A bit more detail

In this role, you can expect to…

• Take ownership of the timely fulfilment of high-quality customer orders, ensuring service and quality standards are met.
• Lead and engage the fulfilment team to achieve key operational metrics, including quality, packing accuracy, and packing rates.
• Champion team performance and drive improvements in a supportive way to help deliver both growth and accuracy.
• Lead continuous improvement and problem-solving initiatives that contribute to efficiencies and savings across the department and wider business.
• Plan daily activities effectively so our squad is well briefed and able to meet customer demand efficiently.
• Work closely with Engineering, Technical, Production, and Warehousing to ensure a safe and collaborative working environment.

🔎 A bit about you

• Experience in a Team Manager or Leader role in a high-speed, high-volume operational environment, and responds effectively to changing priorities of an FMCG company.
• Ideally, experience in manufacturing or production leadership roles
• Excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with squad members and key stakeholders.
• Leads by example and is committed to developing others, offering approachable day-to-day support and has a passion for building engagement and celebrating key milestones.
• Experience in leading process and system improvements to support operational performance and cost.
• Motivated by being part of a business focused on health and happiness for dogs and their humans.

🐶  A bit about Butternut

Delivering on our promise of "Fresh food, Happy dogs" requires operational excellence at every step. Our Doncaster site, made up of Rudie’s Kitchen (manufacturing) and Ace’s Pantry (Order Fulfilment and Warehouse) are where our meals are gently cooked, and then packed with care for our customers, through the people who manage our flow, quality, and distribution.

We are moving beyond the scale-up phase of the operation to a place where excellence happens every day. To do this, we need forward-thinking individuals who see the big picture and want to play a hands-on role in a complex, fast-moving operation. If you believe dogs deserve better and you have the drive to help us deliver it, we want to hear from you.

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year (equivalent to 33 days holiday)
• Plus an extra day for each year of service (up to 5 days).
• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self-care.* (equivalent to 5 days)
• Enrollment into our EAP “Telus” offering free financial planning, counselling, mental health support and more
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
• Enhanced parental leave
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Axa Healthcare.
• Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthy
• Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
• Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
• Electric car charging is available on site.
• Team socials & events
• Prepare for adorable office dog overload—meet Cleo, Otto, Cali, Ronnie, Harvey, Ralph, and many more!

‼️  A few things to note

• There is no closing date for this role. However, we normally experience a high volume of applications so if you are interested we suggest applying as soon as possible.
• We aim to respond to all applicants personally. Our recruitment team is small so do bear with us.
• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.
• We are not looking for external agency support with this role.
• You might know this role as Warehouse Team Leader, Operations Team Leader, Distribution Team Lead, Logistics Team Leader, Shift Supervisor, Packing Team Leader, Despatch Team Leader, Area Manager but in Butternut box we refer to this role as a fulfilment team leader

Role: Raw Materials Specialist

Career Step Level: Step level 2.0

Location: Blyth, Worksop

📣A bit about the role

As a Raw Material Specialist , you will report into the Supplier Assurance Manager at both Rudie's Kitchen and Ace’s Pantry, the two units at our site near Doncaster.  Your role helps to ensure that the company quality system is operated in a controlled and effective manner, ensuring product quality is maintained from raw materials through to finished goods. In this role you will have the freedom of making your own decisions. You will have the opportunity to develop personally and professionally.

🔎A bit more detail

• Goods intake inspection and assessment of protein, vegetable and ambient stable ingredients, including Treat products,  ensuring compliance in all aspects of quality and food safety
• Co-ordination and review of raw material specifications
• Collect & book in samples for microbiological & nutritional analysis
• Ensure daily / weekly / monthly scheduled tasks (e.g. internal audits, GMP audits, KPI reporting, trace exercises) are completed on time and any subsequent actions are followed up.
• Support the introduction of new ingredients and new suppliers through inspection and testing of samples
• Raising and reviewing non conformances, working closely with suppliers, procurement & supply chain teams.
• In conjunction with Supply Chain and Procurement teams, support management of held stock, e.g. disposal, downgrade, release
• Monitor internal and supplier corrective actions.
• Work safely & uphold the company’s health & safety policies.

👇 A bit about you

• Experience / knowledge of reviewing raw material and/or finished product specifications
• The ability to interpret written standards, such as quality attribute sheets, and apply them to product assessment
• A strong communicator, able to communicate effectively at all levels, with a conscientious and diligent attitude
• The ability to be flexible, multi-task and work well under pressure
• Able to undertake manual handling and taste testing
• Able to work in a chilled environment
• Good literacy and numeracy skills
• IT literate
• Organised and able to prioritise
• Inquisitive and keen to learn about new commodity groups
• Hungry for a challenge and keen to build something from the ground up
• Loves dogs (naturally)

🐶  A bit about Butternut

At Butternut, the mission is to deliver health and happiness to dogs and their humans all over the world. In order to do just that, we need a team of forward-thinking, driven people who love dogs as much as we do. And we need some pretty impressive kitchens to make it happen.

While Rudie's Kitchen and Ace's Pantry in Doncaster remain the heart of our UK operations, we’ve recently taken a massive leap forward with Sam’s Kitchen in Poland, going live in January this year. This expansion is a huge part of our story, allowing us to bring our gently cooked, human-quality meals to even more four-legged friends across Europe.

We believe dogs deserve better, and we wouldn't serve food to them that we wouldn't be happy to eat ourselves. Butternut has come a long way since Kev & Dave (our co-founders) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, and with our new international footprint, we are looking for brilliant people to join us for this next chapter.

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year (equivalent to 33 days holiday)* Plus an extra day for each year of service (up to 5 days).
• *39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self-care.* (equivalent to 5 days)
• Enrollment into our EAP “Telus” offering free financial planning, counselling, mental health support and more
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
• Enhanced parental leave
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Axa Healthcare.
• Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthy
• Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
• Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
• Say goodbye to parking woes with free parking and electric car charging.
• Team socials & events
• Prepare for adorable office dog overload—meet Cleo, Otto, Cali, Ronnie, Harvey, Ralph, and many more!

📢 Our interview process:

• Application review
• Initial call (30 minutes): Introductory chat with our Talent Partner.
• In-person Technical interview (1 hour): In-person interviews in our office at Rudie’s Kitchen & Ace’s Pantry ( Blyth, Worksop) where you will meet with key stakeholders. You will be asked a blend of competency questions, values-based questions and getting to know you personally.These will begin w/c 11th May 2026
• In-person Behavioural interview (1 hour)

‼️  A few things to note

• There is no closing date for this role. However, we normally experience a high volume of applications so if you are interested we suggest applying as soon as possible.
• We aim to respond to all applicants personally. Our recruitment team is small so do bear with us.
• Butternut Box is an inclusive employer.
• We are not looking for external agency support with this role.

#LI-Onsite

📣  A bit about the role:

You might know this role as a Facilities Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, or Manufacturing Engineer, but here at Butternut Box, we call it a Multi-Skilled Engineer. As a Multi Skilled Engineer for a dual site operation, Rudie’s Kitchen, our Manufacturing Site and Ace’s Pantry, our UK Warehouse & Fulfilment Centre, you will have full accountability for the Efficient up-keep of all production, fulfilment and site services equipment.

The Engineer needs to be able to fault-find and problem-solve on a broad range of equipment and situations, which is key to resolving technical/engineering issues in a high-volume production environment where keeping the plant running safely and efficiently is the prime objective.

We are pleased to say, this is a full-time permanent contract, you will be working a rolling average of 41 hours per week working on a shift rotation with a mixture of days / nights and some weekend working. The working shifts days consisting of 6am to 6pm and nights consisting of 6pm-6am.

Such as:

• 4 on, 4 off = 2 day, 2 nights
• 5 on, 5 off = 3 days, 2 nights
• 5 on, 5 off = 2 days, 3 nights

In this role, you can expect to…

• Partner with our production and fulfilment teams to ensure the full availability of people, knowledge, skills and equipment to keep us cooking (and to be able to cook more as we scale).
• Be an expert, guide and coach demonstrating shift leadership during the day-to-day running of the Kitchen, advising and sharing a view of how we can operate during proactive and reactive requirements with the shift leadership team.
• Be readily available and the first point of contact to diagnose and fix plant issues, including site services. 
• Own and drive the reliability of our machinery and react promptly and proactively to breakdown issues escalated across the entire Kitchen whilst on duty.
• To provide the final port of call for our teams in diagnosing reasons for the plant not running to Standard Operating Conditions and being the highest technical skill within the factory's day-to-day operation.
• Carrying out Root Cause Analysis of efficiency losses & significant breakdowns. 
• To drive the CI plan for your area of ownership, working alongside the days-based Engineering Team
• Being a key part of the operations team through short interval control meetings, collaborating cross functionally and supporting Op’s with coaching, SOP writing and Technical Training.
• Ensure a robust and informative handover to the oncoming shift to ensure activity continues cohesively, equally ensuring handover to the other side so we can always be moving things forward.

Rudies & Aces systems:

Provide site Services (Cooling systems, steam, air, water, gas and electricity) and full site asset install base (Mixing, Filling, Cooking, Freezing & Fulfilment).

👋  A bit about you

• Strong multi-skilled engineering background including completion of a recognised apprenticeship.
• Multi Skilled Engineer with electrical bias, ideally with strong experience in Electrical diagnostics.
• Qualified to HNC level in an Engineering discipline.
• Hungry for a challenge and keen to grow something to our next phase of growth
• Excellent Communication skills, able to engage with shift operations teams
• P.C literate in: Cloud based system, ideally Google Suite, etc.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in an Engineering or Senior Technician Role
• Supervisory experience with broad working knowledge of relevant safety legislation.
• Well practised planning, organisation and scheduling skills.
• Ability to coach and train, leading others by example.
• Easily approachable with good interpersonal skills, with creative thinking and analytical skills
• Loves dogs (naturally)

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year (equivalent to 33 days holiday)*
• Plus an extra day for each year of service (up to 5 days).*
• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self care.* (equivalent to 5 days)
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
• Enhanced parental leave (52 weeks’ maternity leave inclusive of 26 weeks fully paid and 6 weeks fully paid paternity/secondary leave)
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Vitality Healthcare.
• Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthy
• Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
• Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
• Say goodbye to parking woes with free parking and electric car charging.
• Team socials & events
• Prepare for adorable office dog overload—meet Cleo, Paxo, Cali, Ronnie, Harvey, Milo, and many more!
• Holidays and Paws days are pro-rata for those working part time or job share

🐶 A bit about Butternut

At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That’s why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions.

Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives whilst leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, we now feed a lot of dogs across the UK - but we want to feed dogs everywhere. And to do this, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work with us. 

Butternut has come a long way since Kev & Dave (co-founders) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, and they are now looking for brilliant people to join the team for this next part of the story.

❗️A few things to note: 

• There is no closing date for this role. However, we normally experience a high volume of applications so if you are interested we suggest applying as soon as possible.
• We aim to respond to all applicants personally. Our recruitment team is small so do bear with us.
• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.

📣  A bit about the role:

You might know this role as a Facilities Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, or Manufacturing Engineer, but here at Butternut Box, we call it a Multi-Skilled Engineer. As a Multi Skilled Engineer for a dual site operation, Rudie’s Kitchen, our Manufacturing Site and Ace’s Pantry, our UK Warehouse & Fulfilment Centre, you will have full accountability for the Efficient up-keep of all production, fulfilment and site services equipment.

The Engineer needs to be able to fault-find and problem-solve on a broad range of equipment and situations, which is key to resolving technical/engineering issues in a high-volume production environment where keeping the plant running safely and efficiently is the prime objective.

We are pleased to say, this is a full-time permanent contract, you will be working a rolling average of 41 hours per week working on a shift rotation with a mixture of days / nights and some weekend working. The working shifts days consisting of 6am to 6pm and nights consisting of 6pm-6am.

Such as:

• 4 on, 4 off = 2 day, 2 nights
• 5 on, 5 off = 3 days, 2 nights
• 5 on, 5 off = 2 days, 3 nights

In this role, you can expect to…

• Partner with our production and fulfilment teams to ensure the full availability of people, knowledge, skills and equipment to keep us cooking (and to be able to cook more as we scale).
• Be an expert, guide and coach demonstrating shift leadership during the day-to-day running of the Kitchen, advising and sharing a view of how we can operate during proactive and reactive requirements with the shift leadership team.
• Be readily available and the first point of contact to diagnose and fix plant issues, including site services. 
• Own and drive the reliability of our machinery and react promptly and proactively to breakdown issues escalated across the entire Kitchen whilst on duty.
• To provide the final port of call for our teams in diagnosing reasons for the plant not running to Standard Operating Conditions and being the highest technical skill within the factory's day-to-day operation.
• Carrying out Root Cause Analysis of efficiency losses & significant breakdowns. 
• To drive the CI plan for your area of ownership, working alongside the days-based Engineering Team
• Being a key part of the operations team through short interval control meetings, collaborating cross functionally and supporting Op’s with coaching, SOP writing and Technical Training.
• Ensure a robust and informative handover to the oncoming shift to ensure activity continues cohesively, equally ensuring handover to the other side so we can always be moving things forward.

Rudies & Aces systems:

Provide site Services (Cooling systems, steam, air, water, gas and electricity) and full site asset install base (Mixing, Filling, Cooking, Freezing & Fulfilment).

👋  A bit about you

• Strong multi-skilled engineering background including completion of a recognised apprenticeship.
• Multi Skilled Engineer with electrical bias, ideally with strong experience in Electrical diagnostics.
• Qualified to HNC level in an Engineering discipline.
• Hungry for a challenge and keen to grow something to our next phase of growth
• Excellent Communication skills, able to engage with shift operations teams
• P.C literate in: Cloud based system, ideally Google Suite, etc.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in an Engineering or Senior Technician Role
• Supervisory experience with broad working knowledge of relevant safety legislation.
• Well practised planning, organisation and scheduling skills.
• Ability to coach and train, leading others by example.
• Easily approachable with good interpersonal skills, with creative thinking and analytical skills
• Loves dogs (naturally)

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year (equivalent to 33 days holiday)*
• Plus an extra day for each year of service (up to 5 days).*
• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self care.* (equivalent to 5 days)
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
• Enhanced parental leave (52 weeks’ maternity leave inclusive of 26 weeks fully paid and 6 weeks fully paid paternity/secondary leave)
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Vitality Healthcare.
• Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthy
• Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
• Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
• Say goodbye to parking woes with free parking and electric car charging.
• Team socials & events
• Prepare for adorable office dog overload—meet Cleo, Paxo, Cali, Ronnie, Harvey, Milo, and many more!
• Holidays and Paws days are pro-rata for those working part time or job share

🐶 A bit about Butternut

At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That’s why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions.

Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives whilst leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, we now feed a lot of dogs across the UK - but we want to feed dogs everywhere. And to do this, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work with us. 

Butternut has come a long way since Kev & Dave (co-founders) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, and they are now looking for brilliant people to join the team for this next part of the story.

❗️A few things to note: 

• There is no closing date for this role. However, we normally experience a high volume of applications so if you are interested we suggest applying as soon as possible.
• We aim to respond to all applicants personally. Our recruitment team is small so do bear with us.
• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.

Role: Head of Finance

Career Step Level: Step level 5

Location: Blyth, Worksop

📣A bit about the role

We’re looking for a Head of Finance – Operations to join our squad at a truly exciting time in our growth journey. With expansion into new markets, a big increase in our in-house manufacturing & fulfilment footprint, and greater operational complexity, this role will sit at the heart of how we scale efficiently and sustainably.

You will be the finance lead and strategic partner for our Operations organisation, covering manufacturing, warehouse, logistics, supply chain, and order fulfilment. This is a role for someone who thrives in fast-paced, asset-heavy environments and wants to make a tangible impact on cost, efficiency, and operational performance.

You will partner with the Group Operations leadership team and their respective site teams to help make balanced financial decisions and identify opportunities. You will oversee the on-site Management Accounting teams who are responsible for local reporting, analysis and control. Your remit will span costing, reporting, financial control, budgeting, forecasting, investment appraisal, risk mitigation and operational performance improvement.

This role reports into our CFO, while working extremely closely with our COO and Operational Leadership teams. There will be a clear development plan to support your progression toward Operations Finance Director.

A bit more detail

In this role, you can expect to…

Be the financial owner of Operations

• Lead all financial management across Manufacturing, Warehouse, Fulfilment and Logistics (including UK, Poland facility and 3PL interactions).
• Own operational P&L lines (COGs, labour, utilities, waste, packaging, logistics, overheads) and drive clarity on performance and variances.

Drive robust financial control and reporting

• Be accountable for accurate, timely and impactful operational reporting, cost centre reviews, and period end close for Ops.
• Maintain strong financial controls across end to end operational processes to ensure robust foundations which enable scalable growth.

Partner deeply with operational leaders

• Work hand-in-hand with Operations Leadership to translate performance into actionable insights.
• Lead conversations that highlight key deviations from budget across labour efficiency, throughput, waste, scrap, and logistics costs — both proactively and retrospectively.
• Own the budget & rolling forecast inputs - acting as the bridge between the Operations Leadership team, key budget owners and the FP&A team. 

Enhance profitability & efficiency

• Manage key initiatives across labour optimisation, OEE uplift projects, production efficiency, procurement & materials usage, waste reduction, and utility ratio improvements.
• Deliver working capital improvements through stock optimisation, SKU efficiency and smarter replenishment.

Support capital investment and expansion

• Provide financial evaluation of capex for new equipment, production lines, automation, storage, and fulfilment upgrades (pre- and post- investment). 
• Play a key role in developing the economics of new operational sites, international expansion, and network design.

Be a systems, data & process leader

• Own the Ops Finance change roadmap – including ERP improvements (e.g. SAP B1), automation opportunities, costing system enhancements and more accurate operational data capture.
• Champion AI-led and digital automation for Ops Finance processes.

Ensure we stay ahead of risk

• Identify and mitigate operational risks (supply chain, production, labour, asset utilisation, capacity constraints).
• Support scenario modelling for demand spikes, network disruption and international fulfilment strategy.

🔎 A bit about you

• 6+ years post-qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA/equivalent experience, ideally gained in an operational setting.
• Strong background in operations finance, manufacturing finance, cost accounting or supply chain finance.
• Experience working in an FMCG, manufacturing, or food production business.
• Deep understanding of:
• OEE
• standard costing, variance analysis, yield & waste
• labour and overhead absorption
• stock valuation & inventory control
• manufacturing KPIs and operational performance metrics
• Experience working closely with operational teams on the ground — not afraid to “go to the line” to understand the drivers behind the numbers.
• Demonstrated ability to act as the finance lead and strategic partner to non-financial operational departments. Must be able to influence decisions to achieve cost and efficiency targets.
• Strong problem-solver, able to adapt quickly and thrive in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
• Experience leading and developing a team, ideally across site/office locations.
• Excellent communicator and storyteller, including an ability to explain operational finance concepts to non-finance teams.
• Highly solution-orientated with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Proven capability to horizon-scan and identify efficiency opportunities before they arise.
• Experience with SAP/SAP B1 is very beneficial, likewise involvement in ERP upgrade projects.
• A love for dogs (naturally) and our Butternut values resonate strongly with you.

Note: This role typically works from our UK manufacturing site, with travel required to London and Poland.

🐶 A bit about Butternut
At Butternut, the mission is to deliver health and happiness to dogs and their humans all over the world. In order to do just that, we need a team of forward-thinking, driven people who love dogs as much as we do. And we need quite a big kitchen too. Which is why we have built one in 2021.

Located in Doncaster, Rudie’s Kitchen and Ace’s Pantry are where all the magic happens, so to speak. It’s where the tasty Butternut meals and treats will be gently cooked, using human-quality ingredients because, the way we see it, we wouldn’t serve food to dogs that we wouldn’t be happy to eat ourselves. Due to continued business growth, across Europe, we are also expanding our production footprint with an even bigger second factory in Poland, Sam’s Kitchen, which will be operational early in 2026.

At Butternut, we believe dogs deserve better, and if that’s something you think too, we want to hear from you.

Butternut has come a long way since Kev & Dave (co-founders) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, and we are now looking for brilliant people to join the team for this next part of the story.
Are you up for the challenge?

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year (equivalent to 33 days holiday)*
• Plus an extra day for each year of service (up to 5 days).*
• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self care.* (equivalent to 5 days)
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
• Enhanced parental leave
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Axa Healthcare.
• Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthy
• Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
• Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
• Say goodbye to parking woes with free parking and electric car charging.
• Team socials & events
• Prepare for adorable office dog overload—meet Cleo, Otto, Cali, Ronnie, Harvey, Ralph, and many more!

*Holidays and Paws days are pro-rata for those working part time or job share

‼️  A few things to note

• There is no closing date for this role. However, we normally experience a high volume of applications so if you are interested we suggest applying as soon as possible.
• We aim to respond to all applicants personally. Our recruitment team is small so do bear with us.
• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.
• We are not looking for external agency support with this role.

Role: Team Leader

Career Step Level: Step level 3

Location: Blyth, Worksop

📣A bit about the role

Do you have the passion and desire to constantly strive for better? Have genuine care for dogs, their humans and our team (squad members), want to create a best in class customer experience and all whilst making it a great place to work. Then this is the job for you!

As a Production Team Leader, you will lead a team to deliver our production plan to feed our happy and healthy dogs. Doing this whilst driving high team performance, embracing all aspects of the culture and functional requirements, making continuous improvements and elevating us to the next level. Reporting into the Shift Operations Manager, you’ll support the daily operations and ensure our dogs are provided with the very best human-quality meals.

A bit more detail

Operational Requirements 

• Accountable for our health and safety standards on shift, the upkeep and delivery through conducting daily Health and Safety audits with your Squad members, raising corrective actions to any nasties you may find and owning the resolution.
• Be competent in completing thorough Accident Investigations through root cause analysis and completing near-miss reports. Ensuring that corrective actions are raised and closed out in a timely manner. 
• Review training and development of staff through all areas of the kitchen by ensuring that Squad members are trained against relevant SOPs and other required training and documentation.
• Ensure that labour is managed effectively to ensure production can be maintained through the management of holidays and absences. Proactively managing and identifying issues.
• Quality & hygiene standards are increasingly important to us, so we ensure that GMP standards are maintained at all times. As well as verification of IMS checks from the cooking of our products to the cleaning of all our equipment. 
• Provide supervision, support and leadership to the Production team in pursuit of key operational metrics of quality, output and waste. Ensuring that you are reactive in times of deviations from the agreed targets.
• Have had some experience in leading continuous improvements and problem-solving initiatives, which contribute to savings within the department/company.

Communication & Partnership

• Be able to communicate clearly and effectively with the SLT team when needed, particularly in times when the Shift Operations Manager may be away from the business. 
• Ensure daily handovers between departments are completed - ensuring the relevant detail is captured so each shift oncoming is a success. 
• Work closely with the procurement and planning team to ensure meal output meets sales demand.
• Work well with multiple functional teams, including People, Engineering, Technical, Warehouse and Order fulfilment to drive well thought-out and cohesive plans

Our Culture & Values 

• Understanding that squad member engagement drives operational excellence and People Leaders play a crucial role in making Butternut Box the best place they’ve ever worked.
• Be present in the Kitchen, ensuring you are available to proactively support the team, help find solutions and take action to change. 
• Messages and key communications are delivered to the teams and key stakeholders in a timely and accurate manner. You’ll have an excellent awareness of how your communication style impacts others, and you’ll tailor this to your audience. 
• Confidently undertake meaningful and regular 1:1’s with Squad members, ensuring they feel heard and that their feedback is important to you. You’ll consider their career aspirations, skills and background and tailor your style to their needs.

🔎 A bit about you

• Strong production background in an FMCG manufacturing environment
• Experience in a high-speed volume manufacturing environment
• Leadership experience with a broad working knowledge of relevant safety legislation
• Pragmatic, adaptable, resilient and humble
• Well-practised planning, organisation and scheduling skills
• Someone who loves the pace and excitement of FMCG manufacturing
• Hungry for a challenge and keen to build something from the ground up
• Easily approachable with good interpersonal skills, with creative thinking and analytical skills
• Drives for results, action-oriented, problem-solving, and priority setting
• Loves dogs (naturally)

🐶  A bit about Butternut

Delivering on our promise of "Fresh food, Happy dogs" requires operational excellence at every step. Our Doncaster site, made up of Rudie’s Kitchen (manufacturing) and Ace’s Pantry (Order Fulfilment and Warehouse) are where our meals are gently cooked, and then packed with care for our customers, through the people who manage our flow, quality, and distribution.

We are moving beyond the scale-up phase of the operation to a place where excellence happens every day. To do this, we need forward-thinking individuals who see the big picture and want to play a hands-on role in a complex, fast-moving operation. If you believe dogs deserve better and you have the drive to help us deliver it, we want to hear from you.

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year, plus an extra 8 hours for each year of service (up to 40 hours).*
• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self-care.*
• Enrollment into our EAP Telus offering free financial planning, counselling, mental health support and more
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance and dental cover.
• Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthy
• Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
• Butternut branded uniform provided (fleece, footwear, hi-vis)
• Enrolment into the company pension scheme and sick pay
• Enhanced parental leave
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Aka Healthcare.
• Private showers, changing facilities and dedicated locker space
• Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
• Comfy, bright and airy kitchen space with lunch making facilities and large screen TVs
• Free tea, coffee, and fruit (and pay day pizzas)
• Opportunity to grow, develop and learn with internal training programmes
• Be part of an energetic and high performing team
• Team socials & events
• Refer a friend bonus of up to £500
• Say goodbye to parking woes with free parking and electric car charging.

‼️  A few things to note

• There is no closing date for this role. However, we normally experience a high volume of applications so if you are interested we suggest applying as soon as possible.
• We aim to respond to all applicants personally. Our recruitment team is small so do bear with us.
• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.
• You might know this role as a Shift Manager, Production Manager, Team Manager or Assistant Operations Manager, in Butternut Box we call this role a Team Leader
• We are not looking for external agency support with this role.

Role: Operations Systems Lead

Career Step Level: Step level 3

Location: Blyth, Worksop

Work arrangement: Full-time onsite

📣A bit about the role

You will be the operational heartbeat of our supply chain systems, reporting into the Demand Manager and working cross-functionally with every system user across our UK sites (Rudie’s Kitchen and Ace’s Pantry) and our site in Poland (Sam’s Kitchen).

This is a key role sitting at the intersection of supply chain, finance, warehouse, fulfilment and production. You will be the Ultimate Owner of site SAP utilisation, tasked with "chasing the numbers" through the system to ensure our digital data perfectly mirrors our physical reality. You’ll balance immediate troubleshooting with long-term strategic projects to optimise our processes as we scale. Your north star is a matching systematic movement for every physical movement in our Operation.

🔎 A bit about you

We are looking for a proactive, system-savvy specialist who views SAP as a tool for excellence rather than just a database. You understand that a missed transaction isn’t just a data error, it’s a ripple effect that impacts our P&L and our ability to deliver great service to our customers.

A bit more detail

In this role, you can expect to…

Be the owner of Inventory & Transaction Integrity

• Lead on the audit of transactions across our warehouse, fulfilment and production operations in both Kitchens, ensuring accurate systematic transactions occur for all stages of the physical process. 
• Own the reporting of systematic compliance at a team, site and group level, engaging with stakeholders of all levels to continue to elevate the importance of this topic. 
• You will be able to convert compliance into a financial impact to effectively garner awareness and support for the topic. 
• You will play a key role in Master Data control within our Operation, whether these be SKU information, BOM information or Location information, it will be centrally controlled for effective management. 

Drive up & maintain high levels of compliance

• Through the continuous reporting process, you’ll highlight areas of improvement across the operation where compliance is below target or trending in the wrong direction, and continuously audit improvements
• You will work with team leaders & department heads, alongside the People and Systems team to coordinate and execute training for both areas where compliance is below target, refresher training or new joiner training. 

Reduce friction of system use

• Review and iterate our systematic processes to either reduce friction of usage and compliance, or improve controls to remove discrepancies through analysing the data, active listening with our teams in the kitchen or observations of how tasks are carried out in practice. We strive for accurate records with the fewest number of steps.  
• Engaging stakeholders and managing change across multiple shifts, and sites will come naturally to you, ensuring that when we go live with a change, we follow it through to successful completion and full embedding within the day-to-day. 
• You will explore new technologies or functionality that is released, working with our SAP Engineering Team and our software suppliers  to understand how best to implement and roll these out successfully to our sites. 

People leadership: 

You confidently lead your team's performance in a supportive and developmental manner, with 3 direct reports in the UK and 2 in Poland, ensuring a high level of team engagement across both site.

How you work (Behaviours)

• Adaptability: Comfortable juggling priorities across Production, Warehouse, and Fulfilment.
• Analytical: Able to jump into the detail of the data to understand where the gaps are, what they mean and how to close them. 
• Self-Starter & Problem Solver: You have an "entrepreneurial" spirit and take ownership without waiting for instruction.
• Collaboration: A cross-functional bridge-builder who can translate technical SAP requirements for stakeholders of all backgrounds.

Leader & Coach: Whether working with your team, or with others, you are a coach first, aiming to help others succeed. 

• Mission Alignment: A genuine passion for the Butternut mission—delivering health and happiness to dogs.

🐶  A bit about Butternut

At Butternut, the mission is to deliver health and happiness to dogs and their humans all over the world. In order to do just that, we need a team of forward-thinking, driven people who love dogs as much as we do. And we need some pretty impressive kitchens to make it happen.

While Rudie's Kitchen and Ace's Pantry in Doncaster remain the heart of our UK operations, we’ve recently taken a massive leap forward with Sam’s Kitchen in Poland, going live in January this year. This expansion is a huge part of our story, allowing us to bring our gently cooked, human-quality meals to even more four-legged friends across Europe.

We believe dogs deserve better, and we wouldn't serve food to them that we wouldn't be happy to eat ourselves. Butternut has come a long way since Kev & Dave (our co-founders) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, and with our new international footprint, we are looking for brilliant people to join us for this next chapter.

Are you up for the challenge?

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year (equivalent to 33 days holiday)*
• Plus an extra day for each year of service (up to 5 days).*
• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self care.* (equivalent to 5 days)
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
• Enhanced parental leave
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Axa Healthcare
• Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthy
• Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
• Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
• Say goodbye to parking woes with free parking and electric car charging.
• Team socials & events
• Prepare for adorable office dog overload—meet Cleo, Otto, Cali, Ronnie, Harvey, Ralph, and many more!

*Holidays and Paws days are pro-rata for those working part time or job share

‼️  A few things to note

• There is no closing date for this role. However, we normally experience a high volume of applications so if you are interested we suggest applying as soon as possible.
• We aim to respond to all applicants personally. Our recruitment team is small so do bear with us.
• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.
• We are not looking for external agency support with this role.

Role: Team Leader

Career Step Level: Step level 3

Location: Blyth, Worksop

📣A bit about the role

Do you have the passion and desire to constantly strive for better? Have genuine care for dogs, their humans and our team (squad members), want to create a best in class customer experience and all whilst making it a great place to work. Then this is the job for you!

As a Production Team Leader, you will lead a team to deliver our production plan to feed our happy and healthy dogs. Doing this whilst driving high team performance, embracing all aspects of the culture and functional requirements, making continuous improvements and elevating us to the next level. Reporting into the Shift Operations Manager, you’ll support the daily operations and ensure our dogs are provided with the very best human-quality meals.

A bit more detail

Operational Requirements 

• Accountable for our health and safety standards on shift, the upkeep and delivery through conducting daily Health and Safety audits with your Squad members, raising corrective actions to any nasties you may find and owning the resolution.
• Be competent in completing thorough Accident Investigations through root cause analysis and completing near-miss reports. Ensuring that corrective actions are raised and closed out in a timely manner. 
• Review training and development of staff through all areas of the kitchen by ensuring that Squad members are trained against relevant SOPs and other required training and documentation.
• Ensure that labour is managed effectively to ensure production can be maintained through the management of holidays and absences. Proactively managing and identifying issues.
• Quality & hygiene standards are increasingly important to us, so we ensure that GMP standards are maintained at all times. As well as verification of IMS checks from the cooking of our products to the cleaning of all our equipment. 
• Provide supervision, support and leadership to the Production team in pursuit of key operational metrics of quality, output and waste. Ensuring that you are reactive in times of deviations from the agreed targets.
• Have had some experience in leading continuous improvements and problem-solving initiatives, which contribute to savings within the department/company.

Communication & Partnership

• Be able to communicate clearly and effectively with the SLT team when needed, particularly in times when the Shift Operations Manager may be away from the business. 
• Ensure daily handovers between departments are completed - ensuring the relevant detail is captured so each shift oncoming is a success. 
• Work closely with the procurement and planning team to ensure meal output meets sales demand.
• Work well with multiple functional teams, including People, Engineering, Technical, Warehouse and Order fulfilment to drive well thought-out and cohesive plans

Our Culture & Values 

• Understanding that squad member engagement drives operational excellence and People Leaders play a crucial role in making Butternut Box the best place they’ve ever worked.
• Be present in the Kitchen, ensuring you are available to proactively support the team, help find solutions and take action to change. 
• Messages and key communications are delivered to the teams and key stakeholders in a timely and accurate manner. You’ll have an excellent awareness of how your communication style impacts others, and you’ll tailor this to your audience. 
• Confidently undertake meaningful and regular 1:1’s with Squad members, ensuring they feel heard and that their feedback is important to you. You’ll consider their career aspirations, skills and background and tailor your style to their needs.

🔎 A bit about you

• Strong production background in an FMCG manufacturing environment
• Experience in a high-speed volume manufacturing environment
• Leadership experience with a broad working knowledge of relevant safety legislation
• Pragmatic, adaptable, resilient and humble
• Well-practised planning, organisation and scheduling skills
• Someone who loves the pace and excitement of FMCG manufacturing
• Hungry for a challenge and keen to build something from the ground up
• Easily approachable with good interpersonal skills, with creative thinking and analytical skills
• Drives for results, action-oriented, problem-solving, and priority setting
• Loves dogs (naturally)

🐶  A bit about Butternut

Delivering on our promise of "Fresh food, Happy dogs" requires operational excellence at every step. Our Doncaster site, made up of Rudie’s Kitchen (manufacturing) and Ace’s Pantry (Order Fulfilment and Warehouse) are where our meals are gently cooked, and then packed with care for our customers, through the people who manage our flow, quality, and distribution.

We are moving beyond the scale-up phase of the operation to a place where excellence happens every day. To do this, we need forward-thinking individuals who see the big picture and want to play a hands-on role in a complex, fast-moving operation. If you believe dogs deserve better and you have the drive to help us deliver it, we want to hear from you.

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year, plus an extra 8 hours for each year of service (up to 40 hours).*
• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self-care.*
• Enrollment into our EAP Telus offering free financial planning, counselling, mental health support and more
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance and dental cover.
• Discounted Gym membership with “MyGymDiscounts” helping you stay fit and healthy
• Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
• Butternut branded uniform provided (fleece, footwear, hi-vis)
• Enrolment into the company pension scheme and sick pay
• Enhanced parental leave
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Aka Healthcare.
• Private showers, changing facilities and dedicated locker space
• Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
• Comfy, bright and airy kitchen space with lunch making facilities and large screen TVs
• Free tea, coffee, and fruit (and pay day pizzas)
• Opportunity to grow, develop and learn with internal training programmes
• Be part of an energetic and high performing team
• Team socials & events
• Refer a friend bonus of up to £500
• Say goodbye to parking woes with free parking and electric car charging.

‼️  A few things to note

• There is no closing date for this role. However, we normally experience a high volume of applications so if you are interested we suggest applying as soon as possible.
• We aim to respond to all applicants personally. Our recruitment team is small so do bear with us.
• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.
• You might know this role as a Shift Manager, Production Manager, Team Manager or Assistant Operations Manager, in Butternut Box we call this role a Team Leader
• We are not looking for external agency support with this role.