Job Title: Technical Co-Ordinator

Contract: Permanent

Location: Bolton

Salary: 28K – 32K

Hours: 37.5 hours. Monday to Friday

25 days holiday. Bank hols off Weekends off unless required so flexibility is needed.

Are you a Technical Co-Ordinator on top of your game? Are you passionate about a career in Food Production? This is a fantastic opportunity for you to join out Technical Team and work within a fantastic team sharing your passion for food safety. Working alongside our Technical Manager, you’ll engage and motivate the bakery teams to ensure the site adheres to all legal, food safety and quality standards.

You can be PROUD to be working with innovation and creativity in a fast-moving industry.

Essential Ingredients

• Experience and knowledge of BRC standards.
• Experience and knowledge of conducting internal audits.
• Food safety and HACCP qualified (Level 3)
• Degree qualified or equivalent in a science related discipline is desirable.

The Recipe

At Warburtons we are on a journey of unbeatable quality, innovation and continuous improvement. This is an exciting opportunity for you to work at Variety Bakery and play a key role in the food innovation and food standards. We are proud to be baking a difference.

As a Quality Technical Co-Ordinator you will take part in site trialling new or existing ingredients for the purpose of product / process improvement. We take great pride in keeping our people and product’s safe, so you will play a key role in ensuring work is conducted in accordance with our stringent quality requirements.

You will also be responsible for carrying out plant audits and inspections to ensure they match product and process requirements and contribute to raising quality standards. File and audit all quality and food safety process control paperwork. Our technical team work closely with Centre technical team in partnership on quality food safety projects and initiatives, and so implementing the overarching business strategy.

As a member of the HACCP team, you will help conduct meetings and contribute to meetings to improve site and food safety systems and any issues which may impact product safety. You will monitor, measure and report on key quality and food safety operational issues.

We have a great team at Variety Bakery who have a passion on product safety and product quality. You will build relationships with other departments, suppliers and visitors to site. You will work closely with Centre R&I team and assist with any new product / ingredient / process development. Taking part in site microbiological sampling. This will include collecting samples and logging them on various systems according to the Micro sampling schedule.

Our team are passionate about people development, we are looking for someone who has career aspirations to progress within the company. You will be provided with full support from day one.

As “Britain’s Best Loved Food Brand” we have been baking bread since 1876. Today we are proudly a fifth-generation family company supplying 18,500 retail customers from 12 bakeries and 15 depots, producing a range of over 70 products including a range of Free From products. Our family of 4,500 colleagues throughout the UK, have recognised us as a Sunday Times Top Best Big Companies to work for a number of years. Family and values are what makes us different, and we are a proud bunch. Join us and be proud to be part of Warburtons.

About Us

Did you know there are two bakery sites in Bolton (Bolton & Variety), a distribution hub, a newly built Innovation Centre, Test Bakery, and our Head Office. We have approximately 480 colleagues working across Bolton and Variety manufacturing and distribution. We produce 1.5 million units per week, across 5 automated lines that bake our delicious fresh bread, crumpets, bagels, morning goods and muffins which is delivered daily to our customers across the UK.

There has never been a more exciting time to join our Bolton Bakeries, with new site and group initiatives and projects, you can instantly make an impact driving our Unbeatable Quality vision of being Britain’s Best Food Business! You’ll be our safe hands, and we know you’ll love to be a part of it.

Extra Dough

You will want to know what your breads worth:

• Basic Salary up to £32,000.00 per year
• A slice of the annual profits
• Family time is important to us so as well as your holiday entitlement, we'll give you the opportunity to purchase up to an extra weeks annual leave
• Award winning pension scheme starting with company contributions of 7% and rising to 12%
• Life assurance
• Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough App
• Continued investment in your personal development and internal career opportunities
• Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
• Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.