Raw Materials Technologist – Dronfield (East Midlands)
Location: Dronfield
Shifts: Monday-Friday
Salary: Highly Competitive + Healthcare Programs, Discounts, Pension and other Company Benefits
Job Type: Permanent
Raw Materials Technologist
About Us:
We are seeking an experienced Raw Materials Technologist to support a technical team in a senior-level hybrid role. This position combines hands-on technical work with opportunities to influence raw material management.
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Location: Grantham or Craigavon
Department: Technical / Quality Assurance
Reports To: QA Manager
Contract Type: Temporary 9-12 months
Job Purpose
To provide skilled technical support by requesting, approving, and maintaining ingredient specifications and supplier certifications (including packaging information), ensuring all data is complete, accurate, and compliant with
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Raw Materials Technologist – Grantham
Location: Grantham, East Midlands
Posted 5 days ago
Job Description: Not assigned
Job Title: Raw MaterialsTechnologist
Location: Grantham or Craigavon
Department: Technical / Quality Assurance
Reports To: QA Manager
Contract Type: Temporary 9-12months
Job Purpose:
To provide skilled technical support by requesting, approving, and maintaining ingredient specifications and supplier certifications (including packaging information), ensuring all data is complete, accurate, and compliant with.
Senior Raw Materials Technologist – Park Royal, London
Location: Bakkavor Meals London - Park Royal (Cumberland site)
Fully Site based
Monday - Friday 8.30am -5pm
Permanent role
Senior Raw Materials Technologist (Food Industry)
We drive our own success. Competitive salary. On site staff shop, MyBargains discount platform and more.
This role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal - West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories make chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products & savoury accompaniments and employs 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, your role will involve working closely with Group Central Technical, Specification, NPD, Buying, Process and Quality departments.
Accountabilities:
* Will ensure that there is an approved and active Insight specification available for all raw materials used on site. 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
* 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.
* You will 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 in the required timescale
* 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 the appropriate and necessary corrective action & to follow up and monitor completion of actions.
* Will compile monthly internal KPI's for the site Raw Materials team for example: % active specifications, risk assessment status, supplier approval & raw material specification review.
* Understand the sites Customer requirements in regards raw material controls, microbiological specifications and processing parameters and effectively communicates these to both the internal site teams and the raw material suppliers in a timely manner. Where issues are identified, these will be communicated to all necessary parties as early on in the process as possible.
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
* Have previous experience within the food industry and 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 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)
* 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 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.
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