Laboratory Technician

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by the Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 24,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from more than 1,700 British farmers. The Müller brand is ranked at No.7 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands, and is also the 7th most chosen brand in the UK.

Laboratory Technician

Market Drayton

Permanent contract

4 on 4 off (days) 7AM – 7PM

We are looking for a Laboratory Technician to join our Market Drayton butter department within our Müller Milk & Ingredients business.

The main purpose of the Laboratory Technician is assuring quality performance through analysis, subject knowledge and testing performance whilst striving to continuously improve in line with the Müller values.  

Lab Technician Key tasks: 

Provide expertise through quality based testing and data evaluation
Demonstrate active involvement in solving problems / trouble shooting through data analysis and evaluation
Play an active part in building QMS capability across site
Responsible for laboratory tasks and management systems (5S etc)
Support and process confirms operations quality control responsibilities
Provide governance and ownership of Quality Index and other monthly reports
Responsible for internal and external audit processes
Looks for “waste” in everything that we do
Actively seeks out improvement opportunities within the workplace and converts to own continuous improvement projects
Collaboratively works with other team members to improve our business  

We’re looking for the following from our Lab Technicians:  

HACCP Awareness (Level 2-3)
Basic Food Hygiene
Microbiology and aseptic techniques
Internal Audit
Yellow and Green belt problem solving
A3 problem solving
Word and Excel
Electronic Data Capture
Eden Technologist
Dairy Science   

 Benefits:

A competitive salary
Career progression and development
Salary sacrifice pension scheme with Muller matching up to 4%
Life Assurance at 2 x your annual salary
264 hours holiday
Access the Müller Rewards discount scheme offering over 800 discounts online and in-store and the potential to make savings across grocery and clothes shopping, holidays, insurance, gifts and more