Recruitment drive at rapidly expanding bakery
Jones Village Bakery has launched a recruitment drive for 50 jobs as it gears up for the opening of its new purpose-built bakery. It is the first phase of an expansion plan that will ultimately lead to 115 jobs being created.
The Wrexham-based business is looking for 30 full-time workers and 20 part-time staff.
The company, which currently employs more than 400 people, has two other bakeries on Wrexham Industrial Estate and another in the nearby village of Minera.
The new 140,000 sq ft bakery is four times the size of the one it’s replacing after the original one was destroyed by a devastating fire in August 2019.
As well as housing the company’s main offices, the new complex will also include the new Baking Academy and New Product Development kitchen.
The new bakery is due to be up and running before the end of July.
Managing director Robin Jones said: “This is a hugely exciting time for the Jones Village Bakery. Whilst we’re going to move some staff in from our bakery in Minera to help launch the new bakery, we’ve got vacancies at our other bakeries and we’re just trying to get people in to come on the journey of growth with us.”
He added: “We’ve got huge ambitions to grow this business. We need those people with us now so that by this time next year, they are running the machines, they are supervising the bakery equipment, they are running a team of people.”
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