Raw Materials Technologist

JR United Kingdom; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food supplier in the UK is seeking a Raw Material Technologist to focus on food safety risk assessments and manage raw material specifications. The role involves cross-functional collaboration with technical and procurement teams. Ideal candidates will demonstrate drive, effective communication, and proficiency in Word, Excel, and Access. Benefits include life assurance, 34 days holiday, and a stakeholder pension scheme.

Benefits

Life Assurance

34 days holiday

Staff Shop

Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Qualifications

• Ability to work effectively in a team.
• Flexible approach to role and hours.
• Communicate effectively with all levels.

Responsibilities

• Complete food safety risk assessments for raw materials.
• Liaise with suppliers to gather information.
• Ensure raw materials have active specifications.

Skills

Drive and enthusiasm

Effective communication

Computer literate

Tools

Word

Excel

Access

Job description

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Raw Material Technologist - Bo'ness (FTC- Mat cover min 1 year)
We rise to challenges together

• • Monday-Friday 8:30-17:00
  • Yearly salary: £32550
  • Highly competitive reward package including life insurance, staff shop, MyBargains discount platform
  • Fully site based
    

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!
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Bakkavor
We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with operations also in the US, positioning the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 15,000 colleagues operate from 31 sites across our two markets supplying a large portfolio of products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US.
Department: Technical
Location:
Boness, GB, EH51 9SJ
Workplace: Site Based
Date: 6 Jul 2025
Req ID: 24429

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