Senior Raw Materials Technologist

Bakkavor Group; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food production company is seeking a Senior Raw Materials Technologist in West London. The role involves ensuring quality and compliance for raw materials, leading a team, and supporting risk assessments. The ideal candidate has previous experience in the food industry and holds HACCP Level 3. This site-based position offers competitive benefits, including a staff shop and generous holiday allowances.

Benefits

Life Assurance (1 x salary)

25 days holiday

Staff Shop

Stakeholder Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance (after 5 years of service)

Free Car Parking

Qualifications

• Ability to generate procedures, graphs, reports, and presentations.
• Flexible approach to business needs.
• Able to work effectively within a team and independently.

Responsibilities

• Ensure approved specifications for all raw materials.
• Support risk assessment processes by liaising with suppliers.
• Audit compliance against Quality Management Systems.

Skills

Drive and enthusiasm

Computer literate (Word, Excel, Access)

Effective communicator

Experience within the food industry

Strong technical skills

Education

HACCP Level 3 (or higher)

Job description

Overview

Senior Raw Materials Technologist ( Food Industry)

We drive our own success.

On site salary information and benefits are offered, including an onsite staff shop and the MyBargains discount platform. This is a permanent, site-based role at Bakkavor Meals London - Park Royal (Cumberland site).

Working days are Monday to Friday, 8.30am – 5pm.

Location: Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal, West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories produce chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products and savoury accompaniments and employ over 2,000 people.

About the role

In this busy and exciting role, your key focus will be to ensure that customer, business unit and legal requirements for raw materials and supplier quality assurance are achieved, that quality, safety and risk evaluation systems are in place, monitored and corrective actions completed.

You will lead and motivate the raw material technologists ensuring role activities are delivered to a high standard and support the team resource planning.

This role reports into the Raw Materials Manager; you will work closely with Group Central Technical, Specification, NPD, Buying, Process and Quality departments.

Accountabilities

• Ensure that there is an approved and active Insight specification available for all raw materials used on site. Work with the manager to ensure that all suppliers either existing to the business or a new supplier/material to be introduced has full/current approval status.
• Ensure that all raw material specifications are reviewed and risk assessed to the outlined frequency and include requirements for quality and technical purposes relevant to Bakkavor.
• Support the site risk assessment process through liaising with suppliers to capture all relevant information.
• Participate in Technical audits including customer and Group Technical, ensuring all relevant raw material information is available and completed within the required timescales.
• Audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence, effectively communicated to enable the operational teams to take corrective action and to monitor completion of actions.
• Compile monthly internal KPIs for the site Raw Materials team (e.g., % active specifications, risk assessment status, supplier approvals, and raw material specification reviews).
• Understand the site's customer requirements regarding raw material controls, microbiological specifications and processing parameters, and communicate these to internal site teams and raw material suppliers in a timely manner. Issues identified should be communicated to necessary parties as early as possible.

About you

• Drive and enthusiasm in all aspects of the technical role. Able to work effectively within a team and on own initiative.
• Computer literate (Word, Excel and Access) and able to generate procedures, graphs, reports and presentations.
• Flexible approach to the role and hours as dictated by business needs.
• Effective communicator (written and oral) at all levels of management and with internal and external customers/suppliers.
• Experience within the food industry in a technical role.
• HACCP Level 3 (or higher).
• Strong technical skills, including knowledge of Excel and specification systems.

What you’ll receive

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment to thrive in. We offer benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings important to you.

• Life Assurance (1 x salary)
• 25 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 of service)
• Free Car Parking

Proud to be Bakkavor

We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We 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 offer a wide range of careers across our business. Come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

Find out more and apply.