Food Product Development Placement – 1 Year (Park Royal)

Charlie Bighams; Acton; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Charlie Bighams is offering a one-year placement in New Food Development at Park Royal. You will work with the NFD/EFD teams from concept brief to process handover, contributing to various stages of the development process in a fast-paced environment.

The role involves supporting concept development, tastings, scale-up trials, sample preparation, and quality documentation, with a focus on food safety and product quality.

Qualifications

• Working towards a food related degree.
• Experience of project management and managing timelines.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the NFD and EFD team in first class concept development through to trials, launch and post-launch stages.
• Test and validate our dishes to ensure our food safety and quality are met.
• Support in preparation for, and running of, scale up trials and raw material assessments in the production kitchen.
• Prepare and organise product samples for internal presentations, external testing, photoshoots and other product submissions
• Lead support for all general NFD/EFD team activities including change management
• Support the kitchen team when the Kitchen Assistant is on annual leave
• Support the preparation of internal food tastings. Take notes and actions, ensure attendance and share outputs with necessary teams.
• Prepare product benchmarks and conduct tastings to assess all relevant food concepts to ensure we are always developing best in class food.
• Conduct raw material assessments against the specification at concept and trial stages to ensure we are selecting the best quality ingredients.
• Own the documentation of food tastings through shelf-life assessments from fresh / frozen and champion the quality standards our consumers will expect at each stage of the product life.
• Drive the generation of cooking instructions for new dishes in accordance with our food safety and quality criteria.
• Complete online research for benchmarking exercises, creating relevant tools to show the results, keeping benchmarking database up to date.
• Attend the weekly NFD and Process meetings.
• Lead all support activities to the Process Technologists in planning, preparing and conducting scale up trials in the production kitchen.
• Drive the successful completion of all product testing and sample submissions at trial stage.
• Support the NFD & EFD team with sample preparation and organisation in the production kitchen and development kitchen.
• Ensure product sample submissions are completed on time with the required documentation for testing, customer submissions and photoshoots etc.
• Support with the completion of trial paperwork, QAS, Keycards, Labels and Handover documentation
• Assist the NFD/EFD team in raising and processing change forms for any changes to recipes or ingredients.
• Support on the running of process trials where given, working alongside process technologists to plan, and execute trial against agreed objectives.
• Own quality improvement projects where given and drive the planning, investigation and execution of improvement initiatives in collaboration with the Process Technologists, Technical and Operations teams.
• Attend taste panel & positive release meetings to drive Bigham's quality culture
• Support the NFD/EFD team in completing 4, 8 & 12 week post launch review documentation.
• Support the maintenance and training of our QAS product standards to ensure these are always up to date and well understood by the site teams.
• Lead the management of Keycards keeping the Keycard Register and filing of Keycards up to date, print Keycards where required and ensuring all issued Keycards are signed off by key stakeholders.
• Support customer meetings to prepare food and take notes where required.

Skills

Project management

Highly organised

Attention to detail

Education

Working towards a food related degree

Job description

Charlie Bighams is offering a one-year placement in New Food Development at Park Royal. You will work with the NFD/EFD teams from concept brief to process handover, contributing to various stages of the development process in a fast-paced environment.

The role involves supporting concept development, tastings, scale-up trials, sample preparation, and quality documentation, with a focus on food safety and product quality.