Product Technologist - Food

SGS; Wales; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading testing and certification company in the UK is seeking a Product Technologist in Food. The role involves ensuring product quality, managing specifications, and conducting assessments. Candidates must have technical experience in food or FMCG, proficiency in relevant systems, and a solid understanding of quality standards. This is a full-time onsite position offering a salary of £35,000 to £40,000 per year.

Benefits

Performance-related bonus

Private medical cover

Competitive pension scheme

Length of Service Awards

Health & Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in the food or FMCG sector.
• Ability to ensure quality product delivery.
• Understand legal quality requirements.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end negotiation of Quality Attributes Specifications.
• Ensure all products have QAS completed and approved.
• Conduct scheduling and preparation for product assessment panels.

Skills

Knowledge of legislation and technical standards

Product knowledge

Proficient in systems like Igloo or Ice Check

Advanced MS Office user

Education

Relevant Technical/Quality Management qualification

Job description

Company Description

As the world's leading testing, inspection, and certification company, we, SGS, provide value to society by enabling a better, safer, and more interconnected world. We sustain global standards across diverse industries, including the consumer products sector.

Company Description

As the world's leading testing, inspection, and certification company, we, SGS, provide value to society by enabling a better, safer, and more interconnected world. We sustain global standards across diverse industries, including the consumer products sector.

At SGS, we perform a broad range of food testing and analytical services at our laboratories. At SGS we provide expert food testing solutions, supporting the food production retail sector, ensuring their products meet market expectations, thereby reducing risk, improving efficiency and building consumer confidence.

At SGS, We Believe In Rewarding Our Employees For Their Hard Work And Commitment. As Part Of Our Team, You Would Be Eligible For

• Performance related bonus (discretionary and subject to eligibility criteria)
• Private medical cover (subject to eligibility criteria)
• Competitive pension scheme + Life Assurance
• Length of Service Awards
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives
  
  

Job Description

• Job Title - Product Technologist - Food
• Type - Permanent
• Salary: £35,000 to £40,000 pa DOE
• Location - Onsite - 5 days per week
• Hours - 37.5 hours per week
  
  

Based onsite at our prestigious client, this is role is focused on driving the assurance of great and consistent product quality whilst upholding the ongoing processes to make sure that standards are met.

• Leading and managing the entire end to end processes of negotiating and agreeing Quality Attributes Specifications (QAS) and agreeing standards for depot quality checks
• Ensuring that all products have QAS completed, approved and active in line with all critical path timings
• To conduct all of the required scheduling, planning and preparation for the product assessment panels
• Documenting outputs and associated actions from attribute panels and managing these through with suppliers and SGS through to approval and subsequent specification activation.
• Monitoring product quality post launch against agency standards, reviewing and interpreting complaints and sales related data to determine frequency schedule
  
  

Qualifications

• Relevant Technical/Quality Management experience/qualification(s) in a related area (Food/FMCG)
  
  

Essential Experience

• Practical working knowledge of legislation and technical standards
• Product knowledge and experience of delivering legal quality products to customers
• Proficient use in systems - such as Igloo or Ice Check
• Advanced user of MS Packages
  
  

Additional Information

SGS is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and as such we recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristics protected by law.

APPLY NOW for full consideration, you can be sure that your application will be treated confidentially and impartially, and you will always receive an update within 10 business days.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Retail Office Equipment, Consumer Services, and Oil and Gas

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