Food Technologist

Drnewitt; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A market-leading food business in Luton is seeking a Food Technologist to manage technical projects and ensure product safety. The ideal candidate will be involved in specification management, quality control, and product development while working in a hybrid environment. Experience and culinary knowledge are essential for this role, which offers full-time office hours with some flexibility.

Qualifications

• Fast learner with excellent attention to detail.
• Graduate level or several years of experience within a business.
• Right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Deputise for Technical Manager and manage projects.
• Liaise with suppliers to manage customer technical requirements.
• Conduct technical audits and manage customer specifications.

Skills

Culinary Experience

Laboratory Experience

FDA Regulations

Food Industry

Food Safety Experience

Dietary Department Experience

Food Processing

Microbiology

Research & Development

Baking

Product Development

Manufacturing

Job description

Job Description

Market Leading Food Business now looking to recruit...

Our client has a friendly and professional outlook and now an excellent opportunity arises to join this well established team...

BASED LUTON

ROLE

Food Technologist

Deputising for Technical Manager to ensure the following is completed :

• Technical Management of customer specific projects working closely with other departments to ensure customer requirements are met.
• Manage the customers technical requirements by liaising with suppliers.
• Driving the quality evaluation and consistency panels across all products within the business and providing an agreed action plan with the relevant supplier.
• International travel to sites for audits (customer and 3rd party) along with 1st productions of customer launches.
• Manage the specification requirements of customers i.e. Word Micros Sedex etc
• Writing and support with specification systems maintenance.
• Supporting with the new product development and managing the launch for these new products.
• Monitoring and manage the internal systems for complaints KPIs and documentation flow.
• Investigating and reporting out of specification micro and chemical results
• Providing process capability data for attributes on new products during the development process and verifying this data after 1st production.
• Customer specific KPI reporting and assessment.
• Ensuring packaging library up is up to date
• QAS writing.
• Working knowledge of internal Quality Management Systems to ensure product safety legality authenticity of the required quality.
• Good working knowledge of Excel particularly formulas.

In addition

• Managing annual product testing as per customer requirements
• Investigating and reporting out of specification results
• Artwork approval
• Managing shelf-life testing for all new and existing products
• Supporting Technical Manager with customer queries
• Managing packaging library
• Export technical paperwork / traceability.
• Customer specific complaints trending

CANDIDATE

You will be a fast learner with excellent attention to detail. You will join the team with a view to developing within the account (One of the Major Retailers) and the technical team. You could be either at graduate level or you may have several years experience within a business.

Mon-Fri Office Hours 2-3 Days a week in the office- HYBRID

You must have the right to work in the UK

If this could be of interest please send your CV to or contact Andrew Donaldson on 0

Key Skills

• Culinary Experience
• Laboratory Experience
• FDA Regulations
• Food Industry
• Food Safety Experience
• Dietary Department Experience
• Food Processing
• Microbiology
• Research & Development
• Baking
• Product Development
• Manufacturing

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1