Technologist- Packaging

£24,500-£27,000 Dependent On Experience

Location: Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire

Analytical Services

We offer commercial analytical lab chemistry testing for food and drink, including: nutritional and health, microscopy, biochemistry, allergens, chromatography, packaging, cereals and ingredients, and wines and spirits.

Packaging Team

Campden BRI supports food & drink manufacturers by rigorously testing their packaging to ensure product quality, safety, and maintenance. Not only must packaging retain its strength and integrity and have the correct physicochemical characteristics to protect and preserve products as they move through the supply chain, but it must also not adversely affect the product by interacting and causing taints or loss of quality.

Campden BRI has a range of packaging analysis and testing facilities and can conduct a broad range of packaging investigations, including microscopic and chemical testing. We ask, is the packaging fit for purpose? Different types of packaging are used for different reasons.

Position

• Technical delivery as guided by your line manager or others within the team, with the ability to plan and manage your own time to meet deadlines.
• Interpretation of results and preparation of client reports under supervision to agreed standards.
• Providing support to practical delivery on training courses.
• Responding to direct technical enquiries with support from your line manager using information retrieved from relevant sources.
• Preparing simple project quotations for clients with support from the line manager.
• Maintenance of packaging analytical equipment, care of the packaging pilot plant, and maintenance of records for business management system purposes.
• Assist with hygiene/good housekeeping activities.

Requirements

• A graduate or equivalent qualification in a packaging/food technology/science related discipline or equivalent experience in a similar environment.
• A technical knowledge of food packaging across multiple food sectors and multiple packaging formats is desirable (e.g., plastic, metal, paperboard, and glass). Knowledge of polymer science would be an advantage.
• Good verbal and communication skills since this is a client-facing role.
• Effective time management skills relating to effective delivery and business practices.

Benefits

• Reward platform with employee discounts and rewards.
• 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays.
• Buy and sell holiday scheme.
• A generous work save pension scheme, with employee contributions matched by the company up to 10%.
• Culture focus around work/life balance (early finish Fridays).
• Subsidised onsite restaurant.