Continuous Improvement Technologist (Food Manufacturing - Start-up environment) Location: Nottingham Recruiter: The Collective Network You know those roles where you're hired to "drive improvement" but you spend most of your day chasing signatures, updating documents no one reads, and trying to convince Ops that CAPA isn't a new brand of bottled water? Yeah. This isn't one of those. I'm working with a young food business that's growing fast - the kind that still has that let's-build-it-properly-from-day-one energy, rather than the we've-always-done-it-this-way mindset you find in, well… most places. They make a fresh product (can't say what, but it's not sausage rolls so that narrows it down a bit). It's personalised, high quality, and people genuinely love it. The factory is busy, ambitious, and full of people who care about what they're making - partly because the product has a clear purpose, partly because bad batches are very, very obvious. Right now, they need a Continuous Improvement Technologist. Someone who knows their way around a production floor, understands why metal detectors fail at the worst times, and doesn't break into a cold sweat when someone says "oxidation testing." What you'll actually be doing (Not the job-spec fantasy version.) Running the daily QA checks: metal detection, checkweighers, GMP walkdowns… the real s...