Senior Food R&D Technician: Innovation & Trials

CO5700 Griffith Foods Limited; Somercotes CP; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Griffith Foods is seeking a role in the UK to develop profitable, delicious and sustainable products for selected customers. You will work autonomously to maintain and grow the business while meeting food quality and safety standards.

Key responsibilities include collaborating with marketing and customers to ensure on-time delivery, creating product parameters for new developments, and applying nutritional knowledge to design R&D solutions. The base salary is £26,000 gross per year.

Responsibilities

• To work collaboratively with marketing and customers to enable on time in full delivery of authentic, marketable, profitable products.
• Create, formulate, and provide process parameters for new product developments aligned with customer, legislative and food safety requirements within the scope of Griffith long range plan and purpose driven strategy.
• Applies nutritional knowledge to design and execute R&D solutions Apply and customise innovation solutions and tailor for specific market needs.
• Sets own priorities and works independently to deliver work load on time and in full.
• Develops close working relationships with selected/assigned customers through direct contact Coordinates, plans and runs production trials of new products, both internally and at customer locations; provides technical support in resolving on-going issues and completes full technical reports.
• Understand and contribute towards the delivery of Business Key Performance Indicator's Using relevant IT systems correctly to ensure that full audit trail is in place and all metrics for KPI's can be measured.
• Understands the customer’s requirements (ingredient, product, and legislative restrictions), their operational processes and their technical requirements.
• In collaboration with the wider GTM team, writes and conducts product presentations & workshops to the customer showing our products in application & in a marketable format.
• Participates and supports in the development of new products to align with key market data and trends.
• Coaching and mentoring more junior members of the team.
• Support quality & operations on product optimisation, up scaling and root cause analysis.
• Undertake full organoleptic analysis of food products (therefore no food allergies or food restrictions.)
• Proactively and visibly supports the Health and Safety standards, rules and regulations of the organisation.

Job description

Griffith Foods is seeking a role in the UK to develop profitable, delicious and sustainable products for selected customers. You will work autonomously to maintain and grow the business while meeting food quality and safety standards.

Key responsibilities include collaborating with marketing and customers to ensure on-time delivery, creating product parameters for new developments, and applying nutritional knowledge to design R&D solutions. The base salary is £26,000 gross per year.