Raw Materials Technologist

Bakkavor Group; Scotland; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in fresh prepared food is seeking a Raw Material Technologist to join their dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you will focus on completing food safety risk assessments and ensuring that raw materials meet stringent specifications. Collaborating with various departments, you will play a crucial role in sourcing and approving materials from suppliers. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a market-leading company that values innovation and teamwork. If you have a passion for food safety and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Life Assurance (1 x salary)

34 days holiday

Staff Shop

Stakeholder Pension Scheme

MyBargains Discount Platform

Personal Accident Insurance

Free Independent Mortgage Advice

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounted tutoring for children

Private Medical Insurance (after 5 years service)

Qualifications

• Experience in food safety assessments and specifications for raw materials.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work in teams.

Responsibilities

• Complete food safety risk assessments and liaise with suppliers.
• Ensure all raw materials have approved specifications.

Skills

Food Safety Risk Assessment

Communication Skills

Teamwork

Computer Literacy

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Access

Job description

Raw Material Technologist - Bo'ness

We rise to challenges together

• Monday-Friday 8:30-17:00
• Yearly salary: GBP31500 - GBP34125 depending on experience
• Highly competitive reward package including life insurance, staff shop, MyBargains discount platform
• Fully site based, permanent role

Why join us?

We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together.

What we do.

This particular role is based at our Bakkavor Salads Bo'ness site, which employs over 1,000 people and produces food-to-go salads and salad accompaniments to a number of customers. It is located 3.5 miles from Linlithgow and 8 miles to Falkirk.

About the role.

In this busy and exciting role, your key focus will be to complete food safety risk assessments and specifications for raw materials entering the business. Working cross-functionally to ensure all new raw materials are sourced and purchased from approved suppliers and to acceptable specifications.

Reporting to the RAW Materials Manager, your role will involve working closely with Group Central Technical, Specification, NPD, Buying, Process and Quality departments.

Accountabilities:

• Complete food safety risk assessments for raw materials and liaise with suppliers to capture all relevant information
• Carry out ongoing assessment of ingredients to ensure suitability and compliance
• Ensure all raw materials have an approved and active specification on our insight system
• Generate, maintain, and update relevant raw material systems and databases - liaising with Operations, Technical, Buying and NPD as appropriate
• Work closely with manager to ensure that all suppliers either existing to the business or a new supplier/material to be introduced into the business has full/current approval status
• Participate in Technical audits including customer and Group Technical
• Ensure that all information held centrally on supplier approval is reflective of the factories supply base and risk assessment outcome
• Escalate appropriately internally / externally if discrepancies are found
• Assist in the capture of information and co-ordination of responses in the event of a food safety alert.
• Assess suitability of materials against retailer's codes of practice
• Open communication with the procurement, technical and operational teams - where products fall outside the specification into the reject category

About you.

• Drive and enthusiasm in all aspects of the technical role. Be able to work effectively within a team environment and also on own initiative
• Be computer literate and conversant in Word, Excel and Access packages and be able to generate procedures, graphs, reports and presentations
• Have a flexible approach to the role and the hours required as dictated by the business needs
• Be an effective communicator (written and oral) at all levels of management and with both internal and external customers / suppliers

What you'll receive.

As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

• Life Assurance (1 x salary)
• 34 days holiday
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• MyBargains Discount Platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free Independent Mortgage Advice
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Private Medical Insurance (after 5 years service)
• Free Carparking

Proud to be Bakkavor.

We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

Find out more and apply.