Process Technologist

Process Technologist – Harrow

We're proud to be Bakkavor 
 

• Monday-Friday  
• Competitive salary
• First class training and excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group  

Why join us? 
 

We’re proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. 
 

What we do.
 

Our Bakkavor Pizza site based in based in Harrow makes hand crafted, wood fired - specialty pizzas for customers such as Waitrose, Tesco, Sainsburys, Pizza Express range, co-op and Booths. 

About the role. 
 

Reporting into the Process Manager, you will ensure the smooth transition of product concepts to launch. Ensuring the technical and quality standards are achieved and maximising profitability. You will challenge current factory processes and look for improvements, efficiencies, and will value engineering. 
 
Key Accountabilities: 
 

• Ensure a deep understanding of the critical path and proactively communicate potential issues that may impact it, guaranteeing that all materials have RM approval status or appropriate concessions for trials.
• Understand and adhere to microbiological and nutritional sampling procedures to ensure compliance.
• Completing QASs to a high standard that meets customer expectations.
• Deliver validations in alignment with site CCPs, HACCP principles, and project delivery timelines while ensuring strict adherence to customer requirements.
• Plan, organize, and coordinate resources effectively to achieve the timely delivery of trials, pre-productions, and launches, ensuring alignment with customer specifications and BOM.
• Conduct and document all trial data, including shelf-life and organoleptic assessments, to establish process capabilities and support due diligence.
• Secure and submit appropriate samples for customer and analytical purposes, including microbiological, organoleptic, and transit trials.
• Collaborate with NPD and Operations to define and ensure the quality attributes for work-in-progress materials, assembly, and finished products, considering operational capabilities.
• Carry out ongoing process validation of factory equipment to meet site due diligence requirements, contributing to continuous improvement in health, safety, and environmental practices.
• Coordinate pre-production and launch preparations, supporting post-launch evaluations to confirm the ongoing validity of the process established at launch and implement necessary improvements.
• Operate in a safe working manner, continually supporting site and business improvements related to health, safety, and environmental sustainability.

About you. 
 

• Experience in similar role, in a manufacturing environment
• Good organisational skills and able to manage own time and workload
• Effective project management skills
• Recognises business challenges, development processes, and customer expectations
• Pragmatic in approach to problem solving and agile in finding solutions
• Good attention to detail and spots opportunities for improvement
• Self-starter who is inquisitive and driven to improve
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written

What you’ll receive. 
 

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.  

You’ll enjoy: 

• A stakeholder pension scheme 
• Personal accident Insurance 
• Free independent mortgage advice 
• Employee assistance programme 

• A range of voluntary benefits  
• Holiday purchase scheme 
• Additional life assurance 
• Dental & hospital cash plans 
• Discounted tutoring for children 
• Access to financial learning tools 
• Affordable loans via your salary 
• Proud to be and loyal service awards 
• Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions 

 
Proud to be Bakkavor. 
 

We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! 

Find out more and apply. 

 
 
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