Role title: Process Technologist Salary: Competitive Shift: Monday-Friday Location: Huntingdon About the role: As a ProcessTechnologist you will Support the Process Manager in the delivery of NPD and EPD projects. Manage factory trials, complete trial reports and collate relevant data as agreed. Manage pre-productions for NPD and EPD projects, ensuring relevant departments take ownership as if was a launch. Complete pre-production report and collect data. Support the factory preparing for customer visits. Collaborate with production teams in developing and maintaining cost effective production processes. Works collaboratively with other functions across site, taking a hands-on approach, providing support where required outside core functional responsibilities. As a Process Technologistyour role responsibilities will include: - Scope covers all NPD and EPD projects across all categories. - Work alongside Chefs and NPD Team on new briefs and concepts to ensure they are viable for factory scale up. - Organise, manage and execute factory trials and ensure trial data is accurately recorded. Ensure relevant post-trial assessments and post-trial reviews are being completed and documented. - Support Process Manager gather data on concept to launch costs. - Maintain accurate product files with handover, trial reports, trial data, photos, shelf life, nutritional certificates and any other info deemed necessary for that project, ensuring full traceability. - Creation of factory process flows and any other relevant SOP's. - Ownership of a project to create new QAS's and update existing QAS's. - Support specification team to complete product specification. - Present to internal and external customers as appropriate. - Establish effective working relationships with the customer, suppliers and all internal departments. - Good working knowledge of all plant machinery, capabilities and programmable information. - Project work and new machine commissioning trials. To succeed as a Process Technologistwe ask that you have the following experience/expertise: - A food qualification such as Diploma or Degree level desirable and/or extensive relevant operations experience. - At least 2 years relevant experience in the chilled food industry. - Be able to work on multiple projects simultaneously and adapt to different retailer processes and systems. - Must be able to manage and work to deadlines. - Good level of competence with Microsoft Excel (e.g., graphs, formulas, data conditional formatting, pivot tables), Word, and PowerPoint as well as Outlook and Teams. - Experience of customer critical paths and stage & gate. - Must be able to be flexible about working hours including early, late and weekend work when required. - Full/clean driving licence is essential with the ability to travel. - Confident and effective communicator, experienced in meeting with customers. What you get in return: On top of working for a fantastic organisation with a family feel and state of the art facilities you will receive a great package with competitive holiday allowance, paid overtime, life assurance of minimum two times yearly salary, opportunities for development and internal promotion, Cycle to work scheme, Share save scheme, variety of discounts at well-known retailers as well as gyms and free car parking on site along a subsidised canteen. About us: We are a company that takes pride in their people as it is our people who are at the centre of everything that we do, if you want to find out more please follow the link below. www.hiltonfoodgroupplc.com