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Technical Assistant

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
Plymouth, Devon
Salary
£30,000
Closing date
10 Feb 2025
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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Graduate, Quality Assurance, Technical, Scientist
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Technical Assistant

£30,000
Plymouth
Food Manufacturing
Job ref: 8827

The company

A truly wonderful and unique family-owned and well-established company that has cutting edge environmental initiatives and supplies their quality products into the national retail and local food service markets.

About the Technical Assistant job

The purpose of your role will be to support the Technical Manager in order to develop and maintain a food safety and quality assurance program, ensuring the company’s products are safe, legal, and meet or exceed customer expectations.

Key tasks

  • Conduct internal and external audits while documenting non-conformances and ensuring compliance with the quality manual.
  • Perform product testing, environmental swabbing, and staff training on quality and safety, and liaise with pest control contractors as needed.
  • Investigate complaints, identify root causes, log non-conformances, and monitor and report KPIs to the management team.
  • Help write and maintain products specifications.

About You

You might already have food manufacturing experience within a quality or technical capacity, or you might be a recent Graduate in a food or science related subject - or even a combination of both!

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to start a career path in the technical side of food manufacturing so you will need to be enthusiastic, responsible and have a decent level of education to cover Maths, English and Science, plus be computer literate.

More details

The Technical Assistant job (ref:8827) is based in Plymouth and is paying £30,000 according to your experience.

The working hours are Monday to Friday, office hours but with some flexibility here.

Alternate job titles

Technical Administrator| Technical Admin Assistant | Technical Coordinator | Food Technologist | Technical Information Officer | Food Technical Jobs | Trainee Assistant Technical Manager | Technical Supervisor 

This role is commutable from Plymouth, Tavistock, Saltash, Totnes and Salcombe.

 

 

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
United Kingdom

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