Process Technologist

Process Technologist - Meals London
37.5 hours per week.
25 days holiday + 8 days Bank Holidays
Tuesday - Saturday

SALARY / BENEFITS
£28,000

Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension
Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group
 
COMPANY/ SITE DETAIL
We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.
 
In London, Bakkavor Meals employs over 2,400 people across three sites and a distribution centre in the Park Royal area.  These sites specialise in making chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products and savoury accompaniments, and are part of Bakkavor's Meals sector which has eight factories in total in the UK.
 
JOB DETAIL
A fantastic opportunity for a Process Technologist to join the Meals London team at our Elveden site. The successful candidate will deliver successful product validations in accordance to Bakkavor and customer principles in a fast paced challenging environment in line with business requirements and opportunities.
 
DUTIES:
To deliver trials against the plan, in line with the business-critical paths, using a problem-solving approach ensuring issues are captured and communicated across multiple functions with an awareness of the budget.

• Preparation and completion of transit tests in compliance with customer codes of practice, taking a logical approach.
• Facilitate Post Trial Evaluation; Coordination of samples required for evaluation, plan the trial review for QAS generation and organoleptic assessment. Ensure SOP, photo-std, captured.
• Using a pragmatic approach to ensure all procedures e.g. transit trials, cooking instructions, shelf-life / microbiological and nutritional results are met ahead of launch.
• Delivery of validations in association with site CCPs and HACCP principles in line with project delivery.
• Facilitate customer panels (internal and external) in readiness for customer approval, ensuring they are in compliance with business and customer expectations.
• Completion of controlled documents for trials, pre-productions and launched against the customer specification and BOM.
• Develop a supportive function to stakeholders, with a pragmatic, problem solving approach to ensure all relevant information collected to input in business systems. Post launch review incorporating possible cost reduction opportunities, ensuring procedural compliance.

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
1-2 years demonstrable experience in a manufacturing environment in at least one of the following disciplines: Technical; Production; Development; or graduate in related discipline

• Project Coordination; understands the critical path and delivers within agreed timeframe
• Has good organisational skills and is able to manage own time and workload with the ability to multi-task
• Is aware of the business issues; trials; development concepts and customer expectations
• Is pragmatic in approach to problem solving and is agile in finding solutions
• Is vigilant with good attention to detail and spots opportunities for improvement
• Is a self-starter who is inquisitive and driven to improve.