Junior R&D Assistant/Food Technologist

CNC Recruitment are seeking a dedicated and innovative Junior R&D Assistant/Food Technologist to join our client in Beaminster. You will provide key technical support role for Innovation and renovations projects, value engineering initiatives whilst maintaining organoleptic blend standards and ensuring a high level of technical integrity is maintained with regards to product quality, safety and legality for all aspects of product design and lifecycle management.

Location – Beaminster

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £26,200.00-£28,000.00 per year plus yearly bonus

Working hours – Monday to Friday, 8.00am – 5pm

Responsibilities:

• Support project coordination activities and general R&D administration
• Creation and management of Internal Specifications (BECPG System) for Raw Materials, Semi-Finished Products, Packaging and Finished Products
• Producing recipe development prototypes for Innovation, Renovation and Value Engineering
• Organisation of outgoing development samples for internal (MSOs) and external customers and supporting communications as required.
• Coordinating and setting up tasting and benchmarking sessions both internally and to support customer visits and capturing minutes
• Provision of Technical Information for SAP Master data uploads via Evolve portal
• Regulatory/technical Artwork checks (once trained)
• Support planning and implementation of Industrial trials
• Assists with product registration and approval process for Organic and Fairtrade Certification
• Other general support duties

Technical skills and knowledge:

• Knowledge of GFSI Standards
• Good knowledge of food safety (e.g.: HACCP, microbiology, allergens) principles
• Good organoleptic assessment skills and knowledge of benchmarking/quality basket reviews
• Good communication and organization skills
• Proficient administrative support
• Good understanding of product composition and recipe development
• Understanding of product labelling requirements

Requirements:

Experience working within food industry in technical (Quality or R&D or regulatory) remit beneficial or exposure to same within higher education e.g. Food Science related University Graduate.

Others:

• Exposure to food quality disciplines
• Specification understanding and writing
• NPD, understanding of timelines and working to Innovation stage gate process
• Regulatory understanding, navigation and interpretation
• Sampling, Benchmarking and organoleptic assessment
• Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office applications

Competencies:

• Proactive and energetic
• Team player
• Integrity and always demonstrates professionalism
• Methodical and diligent with an eye for detail
• Structured with good organizational skills
• Customer focused
• Drives for results
• Takes personal responsibility
• Responds to feedback
• Communicates effectively
• Innovates
• Dependable and able to work independently and to meet deadlines.

Benefits:

• Annual Bonus of 12.5% target incentive
• 25 days holiday + 8 public holidays
• Private medical insurance
• Life insurance
• Salary exchange pension scheme with contributions by employee and employer of 4%
• EAP schemes
• Access to Mental Health First Aiders
• Access to a wide range of health, wellness and other resources and activities under the Flourish programme which includes access to 1:1 finance clinic, nutritionists, etc.
• 1 day per annum volunteering locally (usually with the National Trust, local school or other rewilding/environmental type work)

CNC Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer, we are working as a recruitment agency and comply with all data and GDPR processes, we are ICO registered, all data is kept strictly confidential.

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