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Research & Development Assistant

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
Hampshire
Salary
up to £34,000
Closing date
10 Nov 2024
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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Development, Graduate, Technical
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Research & Development Assistant 

Up to £34,000
Hampshire (Winchester)
Food Manufacturing
Job ref: 8714

This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a traditional, family business which is extremely proud of its products. Supplied into high-quality outlets and retailers, the company has a clear vision to make and sell the best tasting and highest quality products.

About the Research & Development Assistant job

The purpose of your role will be to provide support to the NPD Manager in delivering the company’s product development. This exciting role involves all aspects of NPD from concept to launch of new innovations in addition to continuous improvement of the existing range.

Key tasks

  • Conduct laboratory and factory trials for NPD, existing products, new ingredients, and packaging, and complete reports.
  • Perform physical and chemical analyses (e.g., viscosity, pH, Brix) and sensory evaluations (e.g., heat shock, melting resistance, scoopability), generating reports.
  • Maintain ingredient and product inventory, ensure proper labeling, and conduct benchmarking sessions to keep the NPD lab stocked.
  • Oversee factory trials, attend first productions, hand over to Production and Technical teams, and complete all necessary paperwork.

About You

To be considered for the Research & Development Assistant role, you will possess a degree or equivalent in a food science related discipline and/or possess previous food technical, NPD, laboratory or similar experience from either a full-time role or university placement.

  • You will have a good understanding of food safety, technical information and quality standards.
  • Have excellent organisation and problem-solving skills.
  • An excellent communicator at all levels.
  • A personable candidate with the ability to build rapport and maintain positive working relationships.

More details

The Research & Development Assistant job is based in Hampshire (Winchester) and is paying up to £34,000 according to your experience. Due to the location of the site, it is important that you can drive and have your own transport.

The working hours are 8.00am-4.30pm with flexibility to attend production trials.

Alternate job titles

NPD Technologist | NPD Technician | Food Product Technologist | Food Product Developer | NPD Assistant | Innovation Technologist | Food Science Graduate Jobs | Food NPD Job | Laboratory Assistant | Laboratory Supervisor | Food Lab Assistant | Laboratory Technologist | Food Scientist | Lab Technologist | Food Laboratory Jobs | Product Development Technician | R&D Technologist

The site is in Winchester, Hampshire and is commutable from Southampton, Basingstoke, Salisbury, Newbury and Portsmouth. 

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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