Process Technologist

**Process Technologist - Desserts Devizes**
**Salary - Competitive**
Monday to Friday Days
**Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension**
**Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group**

**The Company**

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food
- you just didn't realise it. Because as global leaders in the fresh prepared food industry with over 19,000 employees, we create innovative products, including meals, soups, dips, salads, desserts, pizzas and bread for customers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose in the UK. Our customers include Harris Teeter and Home Chef in the US, and in China, we make food for Starbucks, Yum and Pret. We're ambitious. We're full of ideas. And we're ready for more people who share our passion for quality to join us.

This particular role is at our Bakkavor Desserts site based in Devizes, Wiltshire and specialises in making delicious chilled desserts such as tarts, yum yums, doughnuts, crumbles, pies and pastries. The site employs over 600 people and is close to Swindon, with good public transport routes available.

**Summary**

Bakkavor Desserts Devizes is looking to recruit a Process Technologist to ensure the smooth transition of product concepts to launch, ensuring the technical and quality standards are achieved and maximising profitability. The incumbent will challenge current factory processes, and look for improvements, efficiencies and value engineering.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Undertake trials in-line with the Bakkavor and Customer requirements and as instructed by Line Manager.
- Document all data from trials inc. shelf-life, organs etc, comprehensively and legibly for future review in order to establish process capabilities and support due diligence.
- Secure and submit appropriate samples as requested by Customer as well as those for analysis e.g. Microbiological, for organoleptic evaluation and for transit trials
- Plan and organise resources to achieve the day to day delivery of trials etc, in-line with Project timescales.
- Working with NPD and Operations establish appropriate quality attributes for work in progress material, assembly and finished product taking into account operational capabilities.
- Carry out ongoing Process validation of relevant factory equipment to ensure site due diligence requirements are met.
- Co-ordinate Pre-Production and Launch preparation.
- Contribute to post launch evaluation of process in conjunction with NPD to ensure process established at launch is still valid for full scale production and implement improvements as necessary
- To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment

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