Senior Process Technologist

Senior Process Technologist

We’re Proud to be Bakkavor

Salary: Competitive based on experience

Location: Highbridge - Somerset

Shift: Monday – Friday

Hours: 08:30 – 17:00

Benefits include 10% company bonus, life insurance, staff shop, MyBargains discount platform and more.

About the role

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Process Technologist to join Bakkavor Desserts Highbridge.

This particular role is at our Bakkavor Desserts site based in Highbridge, Somerset and specialises in making delicious chilled desserts such as cheesecakes, tarts and sponges. The site employs over 560 people.

In this busy and exciting role, you’ll manage the delivery of successful product validations in accordance to Bakkavor and customer principles in a fast paced challenging environment in line with business requirements and opportunities.

Accountabilities:

• Managing & developing team through PDPs, personal objectives that link to business objectives using a supportive and challenging environment. Setting SMART objectives for team. Effective team management.
• Scoping of projects, implementing KPIs for project & team. Supporting innovation & improvement plans in line with business objectives.
• Interaction with cross-functional departments to deliver the launch of successful products using influence to achieve project timescales. Influence from the start of the process development. Influence outcome of the start of product concept and manage expectations.
• Manage the completion of trials against the plan, in line with the business critical paths, taking an innovative and problem solving approach ensuring issues are captured, resolved and communicated across multiple functions, with an awareness of the budget. Using a pragmatic approach to checking microbiological and nutritional results ahead of launch.
• Manage customer panels (internal and external) in readiness for customer approval, ensuring they are in compliance with Business and customer expectations.
• Proactive planning and management of the critical path showing a 3 – 6 month plan in place. Defines the trial programme against the critical path to successfully launch products against timelines, achieving customer requirements.
• Understanding how changes to process have impact on cost of products and proactively communicating to the business any changes. Management of trial budget & budget objectives. Awareness of margin for projects and escalating any potential issue to key stakeholders.
• Ownership of the use of problem solving skills to outline opportunities to develop & improve product and offer solutions to resolve the issues to deliver stable & repeatable products for manufacturing. Root cause analysis.
• Ensuring the process department is audit ready through interpretation of validation for food safety and customer COP. Analysing and signing off data for factory documentation.
• To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment

About you:

• Proven track record in food manufacturing and exposure to customer trials and critical path management
• Sound operational experience within Process; Technical; Development or Operations
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to develop relationships and influence across different departments, is collaborative in approach to delivery
• Draw on experience and adopts a wide range of approaches to problem solving; root cause analysis and innovative thinking; is challenging of self and others
• Effective Project Management skills; works with stakeholders and suppliers to deliver trials on time to plan; make appropriate interventions
• People Management skills, is able to deliver through others and develop and coach team members
• Food Safety Level 3, HACCP Level 2
• Intermediate numeracy, literacy and IT skills

Why join us?

We’re proud to offer you a career with options to explore and pursue. Where you’ll be supported to work hard, push further and show resilience. As a valued Senior Process Technologist, we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too.

What we do

We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose.  

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:

• Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
• Private medical insurance
• Annual Bonus Scheme
• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role)
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Discount & cashback platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free health check
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Salary sacrifice car lease scheme
• Free independent mortgage advice
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Free car parking 

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!

Apply now to find out more!

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