Raw Materials Technologist

4 months ago

Boston, United Kingdom Bakkavor Full time

**Raw Materials Technologist**

Proud to be trusted and believed in

Salary: up to £28,321

Location: Old Leake, Lincolnshire (near Boston) or Tilmanstone (Kent)

Contract Type: Permanent

Benefits: Pension, flexible benefits, on-site canteen, employee forum, Long Service Awards, Christmas events, company wellbeing programme, £250 referral scheme

Shift: Monday - Friday, 8.30 - 5pm

Bakkavor is the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, which is one of the most advanced, innovative and dynamic food markets in the world.

**The role**:
In this busy and exciting role, your key focus will be to complete food safety risk assessments and specifications for raw materials entering the business. Working cross-functionally to ensure all new raw materials are sourced and purchased from approved suppliers and to acceptable specifications.

Reporting to the Raw Materials Manager, your role will involve working closely with Group Central Technical, Specification, NPD, Buying, Process and Quality departments.

**Job Accountabilities**:

- Complete food safety risk assessments for raw materials and liaise with suppliers to capture all relevant information
- Carry out ongoing assessment of ingredients to ensure suitability and compliance
- Ensure all raw materials have an approved and active specification on our insight system
- Generate, maintain and update relevant raw material systems and databases - liaising with Operations, Technical, Buying and NPD as appropriate
- Compile monthly internal KPIs for the raw material team
- Work closely with manager to ensure that all suppliers either existing to the business or a new supplier/material to be introduced into the business has full/current approval status
- Participate in Technical audits including customer and Group Technical
- Ensure that all information held centrally on supplier approval is reflective of the factories supply base and risk assessment outcome
- Escalate appropriately internally / externally if discrepancies are found
- Assist in the capture of information and co-ordination of responses in the event of a food safety alert.
- Assess suitability of materials against retailer’s codes of practice
- Open communication with the procurement, technical and operational teams - where products fall outside the specification into the reject category

**About you**

Ideally, you will have good knowledge of food safety and previous quality assurance experience in a fast-paced food manufacturing or FMCG environment.

You will need drive and enthusiasm in all aspects of a technical role, a strong understanding of HACCP and the competency to work effectively within a team environment.

Excellent interpersonal, problem solving, decision making and communication skills, alongside the ability to analyse basic information, summarising and reporting this in a clear, competent manner - will all be key to this role.

**Proud to be Bakkavor**

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, full of ideas and ready for more people who share our passion for quality to join us.

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