A bit about us

La Pizza Company was founded in Kingston Upon Thames by Pietro Vitolo from Capri, Italy. He used his own Neapolitan family pizza dough recipes to produce high quality pizza dough and part baked pizza bases. Pietro moved to Midhurst in 2001 to expand the family owned business within a purpose-built factory fitted out with the latest high-tech pizza manufacturing equipment. This enabled the company to grow and mass produce consistent, high quality Neapolitan recipes to the current day and beyond. We took over the business in August 2006 and changed its name in March 2012 to Pan’Artisan.

Today we supply an ever-expanding list of wholesalers and distributors, who deliver our products throughout the UK. You’ll find us in all the best restaurants, pubs, cafés, hotels and leisure venues where the quality of product is a priority. Pan’Artisan has BRC accreditation and we have gained numerous awards over the years; our latest was “Highly Commended” for our gluten free pizza bases at the 2014 Free From Food Awards. We also pride ourselves on our Business Partnership with the Craft Guild of Chefs; working together to develop innovative, contemporary and flexible new products and provide inspiring menu solutions for today’s discerning consumer.

Job purpose:

In this vital hands-on role you will be developing and managing the engineering department with the objective of minimal equipment downtime.  You will be working closely with the Operations Director, Technical Manager & Facilities Manager to ensure identified projects are carried out and completed to agreed specifications, timescales and budget.

We are looking for an organised, enthusiastic person with good people skills and the ability to work well and lead a small team 

We would like you to be:

• Experienced in both mechanical and electrical engineering
• Proven strong leadership and management skills
• Be able to work confidently under own initiative as well as effectively manage and lead a team
• Experiences in budget management, cost management
• Must be computer literate
• Training in engineering, thus demonstrating knowledge in maintenance of equipment
• Understand overall Health and Safety requirements
• Able to work to tight timelines and under stress
• A good communicator (English is the language of operations on site)