Process Technologist

Salary - £37,000
Monday to Friday, Days
Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension
Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

The Company

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. 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). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

Summary

Bakkavor Desserts Highbridge is looking to recruit a Process Technologist to ensure the smooth transition of product concepts to launch, ensuring the technical and quality standards are achieved and maximising profitability. The incumbent will challenge current factory processes, and look for improvements, efficiencies and value engineering.

Your responsibilities:

· Undertake trials in-line with the Bakkavor and Customer requirements and as instructed by Line Manager.
· Document all data from trials inc. shelf-life, organs etc, comprehensively and legibly for future review in order to establish process capabilities and support due diligence.
· Secure and submit appropriate samples as requested by Customer as well as those for analysis e.g. Microbiological, for organoleptic evaluation and for transit trials
· Plan and organise resources to achieve the day to day delivery of trials etc, in-line with Project timescales.
· Working with NPD and Operations establish appropriate quality attributes for work in progress material, assembly and finished product taking into account operational capabilities.
· Carry out ongoing Process validation of relevant factory equipment to ensure site due diligence requirements are met.
· Co-ordinate Pre-Production and Launch preparation.
· Contribute to post launch evaluation of process in conjunction with NPD to ensure process established at launch is still valid for full scale production and implement improvements as necessary
· To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment

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