Overview of role
Location: Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Salary: Circa £31,000 per annum
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Technical Team at our Stevenage Bakery. In this role, you will support the delivery of high standards of product quality and food safety across our manufacturing processes.
You will help monitor and audit production activities across the bakery, gathering qualitative and quantitative information on how processes are performing. Working closely with colleagues across the site, you will support problem solving, identify opportunities for improvement, and help develop actions that strengthen product quality, food safety, and operational performance.
This role offers the chance to gain hands-on experience within a fast-paced food manufacturing environment while contributing to continuous improvement across the site.
Key Accountabilities
Safety First! To support and be actively involved in improving and maintaining a safe working environment by ensuring that team members and employees are fully aware and comply with all Health and Safety standards, company and legal requirements.
Food Safety:
* To carry out HACCP validation and verification checks
* Ensuring product is manufactured having taken all reasonable precautions to prevent Foreign Body contamination of all descriptions
* Create and deliver appropriate training
* To carry regular audits and follow up on corrective actions
* Support in managing Food Safety incidents
Quality:
* To carry out process audits as defined within the ABSS requirements
* Complete audits of finished product quality
* Sampling of products to ensure Product Quality and shelf life
* Maintaining the QSM
* To carry out environmental monitoring and working with the Hygiene department to implement corrective actions
Legality:
* To collate daily weights information and ensure any corrective actions required are carried out
* To review checkweigher performance daily and arrange for any remedial/corrective actions to be carried out
Project Work:
* To continuously analyse and look for trends in all areas of the technical team scope
* To feedback regularly and suggest and implement solutions that arise
* To be involved in project work as required
* To initiate CI projects to improve systems or solve problems
The Right Person
* Will have previous experience of working in a technical department preferably in a Food Manufacturing environment
* Experience leading project involving multi-disciplinary teams is desirable.
* Team player with excellent organisation and planning skills.
* Ability to influence and communicate effectively at all levels.
* Professional approach and a self-starter and willing to learn new skills
* Ideally degree educated, or equivalent.
* PC Literate, including excellent Excel knowledge
* Why Join Us? Our compensation package is market-aligned, and includes 25 days of annual leave (assuming a 5-day work week), along with a comprehensive array of benefits:
* Comprehensive induction and training
* Employer pension contributions matching up to 10% (inclusive of Life Assurance)
* Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) with access to in-house counsellors, legal, and financial support
o My Healthy Advantage smartphone app with personalised well-being content
* Cycle to Work Scheme and Salary Finance Scheme
* Extra Slice – a discount scheme for employees at over 500 retailers and outlets.
If you want to be part of a passionate team and develop your skills in a varied and diverse environment, apply today! Become a part of the Allied Bakeries team.
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