Senior Process Technologist

6 days ago


Wainfleet All Saints, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom Bakkavor Full time
About the Role

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Process Technologist to join Bakkavor's Boston Meals site. The site employs over 700 people and specializes in making chilled Italian ready meals and pasta salads products for a dedicated customer.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage the delivery of successful product validations in accordance with Bakkavor and customer principles in a fast-paced and challenging environment.
  • Develop and manage a team through Performance Development Plans (PDPs) and personal objectives that link to business objectives.
  • Scope and implement projects, setting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for project and team success.
  • Support innovation and improvement plans in line with business objectives.
  • Interact with cross-functional departments to deliver the launch of successful products, influencing project timescales and outcomes.
  • Manage the completion of trials against the plan, taking an innovative and problem-solving approach to ensure issues are captured, resolved, and communicated across multiple functions.
  • Manage customer panels (internal and external) in readiness for customer approval, ensuring compliance with business and customer expectations.
  • Proactively plan and manage the critical path, defining the trial program against the critical path to successfully launch products against timelines.
  • Understand how changes to process impact product costs and proactively communicate changes to the business.
  • Manage trial budgets and budget objectives, with awareness of margin for projects and escalation of potential issues to key stakeholders.
  • Own the use of problem-solving skills to outline opportunities to develop and improve products and offer solutions to resolve issues.
  • Ensure the process department is audit-ready through interpretation of validation for food safety and customer COP.
Requirements
  • Proven track record in food manufacturing and exposure to customer trials and critical path management.
  • Sound operational experience within Process, Technical, Development, or Operations.
  • Good interpersonal skills with the ability to develop relationships and influence across different departments.
  • Draw on experience and adopt a wide range of approaches to problem-solving, root cause analysis, and innovative thinking.
  • Effective Project Management skills, working with stakeholders and suppliers to deliver trials on time to plan.
  • People Management skills, able to deliver through others and develop and coach team members.
  • Food Safety Level 3, HACCP Level 2.
  • Intermediate numeracy, literacy, and IT skills.
About Bakkavor

Bakkavor is the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with a presence in the US and China. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Our company culture values hard work, resilience, and ambition, and we offer a range of benefits and rewards to support our employees' careers and well-being.



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