Technologist

6 months ago


Wigan, United Kingdom Bakkavor Full time

**Technologist**

**Salary**: £22,000 - £28,000 p/a

**Shift**: Monday-Friday

**Shift Times**: 08.30 - 17.00

**Location**: Bakkavor, Wigan

**Contract**: Fixed Term Contract, 11 months

**Benefits Package**: 33 Days Annual Leave

Life Assurance

Personal Accident Cover

Pension

Flexible Benefits Package

Staff Shop

Free Parking

At Bakkavor we’re proud to offer you a career with real scope for development. To reward your hard work and ambition as a talented Technologist with plenty of support and opportunity and empower you to drive your own success and create a career you can be proud of too.

**Who are Bakkavor**:
Bakkavor is one of the leading providers of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.

In the UK, our customers include some of the UKs best known grocery retailers including Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Asda and Morrison’s, who sell our products to consumers under their respective retail brands. Bakkavor Meals based in Wigan, specialises in making chilled ready meals, food to go salads and vegetable accompaniments and employs over 1,000 people. It is part of the Bakkavor Meals sector which has eight factories in the UK.

**Job Detail**

Reporting into our Technical Services Manager at our Bakkavor Wigan site, a fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Technologist to provide technical expertise to our customers, suppliers, and throughout the business, advising of legal, safety and quality standards and providing specialist technical support to all functions.

**Accountabilities**:
Role accountabilities include:

- **Technical Management Support** - To support he administrative aspect of the technical department taking responsibility of the day to day management and maintenance of some or all of the following: QMS, HACCP, legislation, specifications, technical reports, contaminants, complaints, microbiological and nutritional surveillance.
- **Communication **- To ensure effective, professional, timely customer communication. Contribute to customer audits and visits, leading in areas of expertise.
- **Audits **- To conduct audits as part of the internal QMS. To trend actions and non-conformances and to report into the relevant forums.
- **NPD **- Work with the team to ensure all changes associated with launches, delists, and promo activities are implemented to support the operation teams and achieves the correct deadlines.
- **People **- To deputise and support others in the technical team in all tasks as required and be flexible to cover different work, also be involved in projects as requested.
- **Health & Safety - **To operate in a safe working manner and support the site on continuous improvements relating to health and safety.

**About you**:

- Previous demonstrable experience in a chilled food manufacturing environment in at least one of the following disciplines: Technical; Production; Development; or graduated in related discipline
- Good organisational skills with the ability to multi-task and manage own time/workload
- Is aware of the business issues; trials; development concepts and customer expectations
- A pragmatic in approach to problem solving and is agile in finding solutions
- Vigilant with good attention to detail and spots opportunities for improvement
- A self-starter who is inquisitive and driven to improve

**What you can expect from us**:
When joining us you can expect a highly competitive rewards package including group pension and other flexible benefits - alongside excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.

**Proud to be Bakkavor**

We’re proud to be the leading UK provider of innovative, high-quality, fresh prepared food. We’re proud to be driven by the hard work and passion of our people. And we’re proud to offer a wide range of careers full of support and opportunity. Join our team and we’ll make you proud too.



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