Food Process & NPD Launch Specialist

Pilgrim's Europe; Attleborough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Pilgrim's Europe is seeking a Process Technologist to join the Product & Innovation team in Attleborough. You will help deliver successful product launches from concept to scale, working with Process Manager and cross-functional teams to meet quality and customer expectations.

You will drive continual improvement across manufacturing processes, ensuring validations and compliance while preparing launch documentation and QA records.

Qualifications

• Relevant food industry qualification and/or experience within a food manufacturing environment.
• Experience in Process, NPD, Technical, or Product Innovation functions.

Responsibilities

• Support right-first-time product launches and factory trials.
• Coordinate and support pre-production and first production runs.
• Liaise with NPD, Commercial, Technical, Quality, Engineering, Production, and Customer teams to meet project milestones.
• Prepare and maintain launch documentation including quality attribute sheets and nutritional information.
• Assist with shelf-life verification and cooking validations.
• Support weekly pre-launch meetings to ensure requirements are met on time.
• Analyse production processes to improve efficiency, yield, quality and cost.
• Support artwork approvals and technical compliance.
• Maintain controlled documents and ensure NPI milestones are achieved.
• Promote health & safety, food safety, and quality standards.

Skills

Organisational skills

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Cross-department relationships

Food manufacturing knowledge

Food safety knowledge

Product labelling knowledge

Continuous improvement

Communication skills

Education

Relevant food industry qualification/experience

Experience in Process, NPD, Technical or Product Innovation

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Point74/Recipe Professor

Job description

Pilgrim's Europe is seeking a Process Technologist to join the Product & Innovation team in Attleborough. You will help deliver successful product launches from concept to scale, working with Process Manager and cross-functional teams to meet quality and customer expectations.

You will drive continual improvement across manufacturing processes, ensuring validations and compliance while preparing launch documentation and QA records.