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Food Technologist (hybrid)

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
South West London
Salary
Up to £40,000
Closing date
7 Dec 2023
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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Quality Assurance, Technical
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Food Technologist (hybrid)

Up to £40,000 
South West London

Food Manufacturing
Job ref: 8502

The company

A specialist food business based in the UK founded in the 1990’s. Sourcing, developing & producing top-quality prepared foods and authentic ambient essentials from Southeast Asia.

About the Food Technologist job

As a Food Technologist, you will be responsible for accurately completing customer specifications plus keeping all technical information up to date on the company systems.

You will work closely with the NPD team to make sure all technical systems are updated during new launches, check product artwork, packaging and labelling and liaise regularly with suppliers to obtain all required information.

Key tasks

  • Set up external customer specifications, generating and submitting pack copy to meet customer and legal requirements.
  • Co-ordinate technical signing off of new products including product testing from all the way to completion.
  • Manage artwork processes including reviewing and ensuring all back of pack information is accurate and in line with the technical labelling policies.
  • Support product development process and work closely with teams to understand technical capabilities and practicalities.
  • Undertake due diligence and product compliance with customer technical policies, current labelling standards and all regulatory changes that will impact back of pack information.
  • Ensure the critical path is met allowing products to be launched correctly and on time.
  • Complete organoleptic testing throughout the product shelf-life cycle documenting findings.
  • To complete nutritional and technical benchmarking where required.

About You

  • Experience of working with major retailers preferably M&S and knowledge of specifications, preferably FIND.
  • A degree in food science or nutrition is preferred.
  • High attention to detail, methodical and well-organised and uses initiative to drive activities independently.
  • Enjoys completing complex projects and seeing tasks through to completion.
  • A passion for excellent food and an appreciation of requirements to developing high quality retail products.
  • Good IT skills needed to complete tasks efficiently communication skills needed to work in an international environment.

More details

The Food Technologist (hybrid) job is based in South West London and is paying up to £40,000 per annum according to your experience.

The package includes 25 days holiday + bank holidays.

The working hours are Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours a week – hybrid working from home on Fridays.

Alternate job titles

New Product Development Technologist | NPD Technologist | NPD Technician | Product Development Technician | NPD Assistant | Food Product Development Jobs | Specification Technologist | Specifications Writer | Technical Administrator | Technical Assistant | Technical Officer | Food Industry Specifications Jobs

 

Company

Since 2000, b3 jobs has been helping to further 1000s of people’s careers within the food manufacturing industry, throughout the whole of the UK. As one of the leading specialist food manufacturing recruitment agencies, b3 jobs cover all disciplines both permanent and interim and from graduates to MD’s,

Our core values are always:

  • to find the very best job for you - not us!
  • to give you friendly, ethical, honest and expert recruitment services
  • to advise and not pressurise, so that you can make the right decisions for you

We genuinely strive to provide you with what you want – a job that not only offers the salary you’re after, but also the career progression and job satisfaction that makes going to work all the more worthwhile. Enough trumpet blowing though – visit our website to read just some of our happy previous candidate testimonials - we are more than happy to let our reputation precede us!

For a full up to date list of our jobs, visit www.b3jobs.co.uk

Food Industry Graduates

If you are graduating soon and looking for your first job in food manufacturing, have a look at our Graduate Resource Hub on the b3 jobs website.

https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/graduates

Here you will find everything you need to get started on searching for a new position, from CV and cover letter writing tips, sample food industry job descriptions, informative and entertaining blog posts, useful links and even live graduate vacancies you can apply for.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01435 866000
Location
Heffle Buildings
33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
GB

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