Career Opportunities

Job Description

Northwood are recruiting for an individual to help them implement, support and get value from their recent investments in SAP and supporting applications. This is your chance to be part of an innovative application team implementing and supporting mission-critical solutions for Northwood companies.

If you are dedicated and motivated by the chance to support a modern cloud SAP ERP software solution that supports all areas of our business, then please read on.

Role overview

• Develop business process competence across Northwood’s ERP system. Ensuring Northwood derive value from their ERP.
• Ensure critical business processes enabled by SAP are understood by the business and a reference model created in coordination with key users.
• Support role between IT and the business, communicating and translating between different perspectives or views about business operations. Look for areas to add value.
• Communicate, translate and model required business process capabilities within the SAP system.
• Develop and work with the business process experts and others as necessary to determine the future state of a specific business processes.
• Ensure proper coordination between the IT organization and process owners by defining value adding processes. Ensure that process dependencies are understood.
• Determine and document the impact of process changes for the process owner and ensure processes are adequately tested.
• Help and training to the users to drive user efficiency.
• Designs, develops, and tests interfaces. Analyzes, designs, enhances, and/or improves business processes and data flows. Performs preliminary and critical system design ensuring all development principles are followed.

Key Responsibilities

• Supports the operational use of SAP.
• Support the project teams in delivering the SAP solution.

Skills and Credentials:

• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Logical and creative thinking skills to help solve business problems.
• Excellent analytical and technical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.

The role will involve travel to other Northwood sites across the UK and Europe.

Compensation & Benefits

• Structured development programme to help you fulfill your potential
• Market rate salary
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme

Applications should be sent to Paul.Boardman@northwood.co.uk

Job Description

Northwood Recycling Limited has an exciting opportunity for an Operations Assistant reporting to the Recycling  Operations Director.  This role is based at Disley site.

Under the guidance of the NRL Operations Co-ordinator, the successful candidate will have involvement in the end-to-end Northwood Recycling Ltd supply chain, supporting logistics and administration requirements for NRL’s trading activities.

Key Expectations:

• Support the facilitating of transactions agreed by the Northwood Recycling trader team by arranging freight, necessary paperwork and other administrative details.
• Liaising with customers to schedule deliveries to meet their requirements consistent with supplier expectations.
• Provide weight advice to suppliers and gather weight advice from customers. Record weight information on spread sheets and load sheets.
• Record details of trading transactions for management information, accounts payable and sales invoicing purposes.
• Raise sales invoices for internal customers (Northwood Tissue (Disley) and Northwood Tissue (Lancaster)
• Support NRL & NTD and administration staff as required.
• Cover the end-to-end Northwood Recycling supply chain.
• Arrange necessary catering requirements for relevant internal meetings

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCIES:

• Proven administration skills in a busy office environment
• Excellent MS Office knowledge
• Attention to detail & accuracy
• Strong Communication Skills

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE  

• Experience of SAP

Apply – Please send your CV: emma.saunders@northwood.co.uk  

Job Description

Ideally must have worked in a high volume FMCG [Fast Moving Consumer Goods] manufacturing environment, however experience working in other fast paced industries would be acceptable. You must have experience of operating high technology automated manufacturing machines. A knowledge of HMI based machines would be advantageous.

You must have good English and Maths competency, and have a minimum of 2 years’ experience working within manufacturing. Preferably the ideal candidate will have a mechanical or maintenance background and training will be given to develop the required skill sets.

As this is a high output machine, and a much higher skilled job role, this will reflect in a higher rate of pay.

Salary – Competitive

Apply – Please send your CV to:northwood.recruitment@northwood.co.uk

Job Description

Ideally must have worked in a high volume FMCG [Fast Moving Consumer Goods] manufacturing environment, however experience working in other fast paced industries would be acceptable. You must have experience of operating high technology automated manufacturing machines. A knowledge of HMI based machines would be advantageous.

You must have good English and Maths competency, and have a minimum of 2 years’ experience working within manufacturing. Preferably the ideal candidate will have a mechanical or maintenance background and training will be given to develop the required skill sets.

As this is a high output machine, and a much higher skilled job role, this will reflect in a higher rate of pay.

Salary – Competitive

Apply – Please send your CV to: northwood.recruitment@northwood.co.uk

Job Description