Food Technologist

**+ Employee benefits**:
***Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire**:
**Consulting Technology**:
Supporting food manufacturers and retailers with product innovation including: rheology, new product development, value optimisation, instructional development, pilot plant, quality and food safety manufacturing, thermal processing, new technologies, and regulatory affairs.

**Instruction Development Team**:
Are you passionate about food safety & quality and looking for your next challenges?

Our Food Instruction Services Team prepare trials for client’s products
- trialling cooking and reheating instructions to ensure that consumers have a safe product (avoiding potential microbiological risks), and that its heated/cooked to the best possible quality (due to the accuracy and clarity of the instructions given by the manufacturer).

Our technical teams have unrivalled experience and knowledge across a broad range of heated products that might be configured and packaged in many ways.

**Position**:

- Working on Food Product Instruction development contracts. Developing and verifying food product (both ready meals and raw meat) cooking instructions using a range of appliance types e.g. ovens, hobs, grills, steamers, microwave oven.
- Interpretation of data, results and preparation of contract reports.
- Maintenance of equipment and records for business management system purposes, including maintenance and calibration of Instruction Development equipment - thermocouples, data loggers and cooking appliances.
- Assist with hygiene/good housekeeping activities and operate a ‘clean as you go’ policy.

**Requirements**:

- An interest, ability and understanding of the cooking of food.
- Excellent practical skills with an emphasis on food preparation.
- Ability to work alone on small projects and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Flexible approach to working hours - Campden BRI standard hours, but with required flexibility, as needed, of starting earlier or finishing later.
- Good verbal and written communication skills to support client interaction.
- Full UK/EU driving licence.

**Benefits**:

- Reward platform with employee discounts and rewards
- 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
- Buy and sell holiday scheme
- A generous work save pension scheme, with employee contributions matched by the company up to 10%
- Culture focus around work/life balance (early finish Fridays)
- Subsidised onsite restaurant

**Additional information**:

- We're based in a rural location, so you must be able to drive and have your own transport.We regret that we can't offer visa sponsorship for this role and any applicants must hold right to work in the UK.