Process Technologist

Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire

About Us

First Milk is a wholly British farmer-owned dairy co-operative with a vision to create value for members by delivering long-term prosperity in the form of success, profitability, security and wellbeing.

Owned by the family farms that supply us with milk and invest capital in the business, we produce award-winning cheddar, regional cheeses and dairy ingredients, as well as marketing fresh raw milk to many other UK dairy processors.

We work together as one team, with a relentless focus on efficiency and quality, to deliver competitive total returns to our farmer members. We put customers at the heart of our business, creating value through strong, long-term partnerships.

We’re currently looking for a Process Technologist to join our team in Haverfordwest on a permanent, full-time basis.

The Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- 34 days’ holiday, including bank holidays
- Pension

This is a great opportunity for a process operations or engineering professional with a string grasp of food manufacturing processes to advance their skills with our fantastic organisation.

We’re committed to supporting your professional growth and offer a range of development prospects to help you thrive and achieve your upmost.

What’s more, you’ll be taking on a critical role elevating our standards, our efficiency and our quality to even greater heights and ensuring the continued success of our company.

The Role

As a Process Technologist, you will implement process and continuous improvement initiatives across our manufacturing processes and sites.

Specifically, you will manage and measure the positive impact that these changes have made to our company processes. You will work to optimise our operations and ensure we remain in line with regulations as well as upskilling colleagues through training and coaching.

Your improvements will increase our capital without compromising our high-quality products nor standards. You will strive to decrease our consumption of energy, regularly testing our systems to ensure consistency and efficiency, and focus on verification, validation and optimisation in our sites and systems.

About You

**To be considered as a Process Technologist, you will need**:

- Process operations and/or engineering experience
- Experience of working with multi-functional teams to work within disciplined processes and timeframes
- Wide knowledge of processes used in food manufacturing
- The ability to communicate, report and devise solutions in collaboration with others
- The ability to work accurately in a busy and demanding environment
- Strong influencing skills
- Good numerical and computer literacy skills: Word, Excel, Outlook
- An analytical mind
- At a minimum, A-Levels or equivalent in a scientific discipline (such as physics, chemistry, maths, biology or food science)

Other organisations may call this role Quality Improvement Technician, Process Technician, Manufacturing Process Technologist, QA Technician, Food Quality Technician, or Quality Analyst.

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