Raw Material Technologist

**About The Role**:
**Join the Samworth Brothers Team and Take your next step with Samworth Brothers become part of our dynamic family**

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private health scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Experience annual pay reviews
- Profit related pay
- Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

**The Opportunity**

We have a great opportunity for a Raw Material Technologist to join our team here at The Cornwall Bakery in Callington. You will be responsible for ensuring that customer, company and legal requirements for raw materials and supplier quality assurance are achieved in conjunction with the Raw Materials Manager. You will manage raw materials specifications, maintain supplier assurance systems, monitor supplier performance and analyse data and trends
- Approval and maintenance of sites Raw Material Specifications in conjunction with Group Foods Connected Team, including requesting and reviewing these in line with Customer requirements and COP.
- Maintenance of the sites Vulnerability Risk Assessment including Vegan, Gluten Free and species risk assessments
- Liaise with site Process team to manage new or contingency raw materials coming onto site for trials or approval
- To prioritise contingency raw material schedules with reference to business risk rating and other mitigating factors.
- To liaise with NPD for kitchen trial materials and then the Process team to perform scale up trials in the bakery. Assessment of finished goods quality and customer approvals if required.
- Communication and engagement with the Technical team to ensure ingredient specifications are obtained, approved and detailed on customer finished product specifications.- Competent computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint
- Min A level qualification or equivalent
- Experience with raw materials in food industry setting preferred
- Retailer standards knowledge ideal
- Red Meat / Protein knowledge ideal

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

**About Us**: We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

**_Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative._