Npd Technologist

NPD Technologist - Maternity cover
Monday to Friday
Competitive salary

Young’s Seafood Limited is the UK’s leading fish and seafood business, inspiring consumers to love fish through our fresh, frozen, own-label and branded products. Proudly making delicious fish dishes for over 200 years, we’re home to the Young’s brand - famous today for making family favourites such as Chip Shop and the UK’s number 1 premium seafood brand, Gastro. We’re a leading supplier of seafood to the hospitality industry offering an extensive portfolio of products through our Young’s Foodservice and Kingfrost brands.

Proudly British, Young’s International offers our exceptional quality frozen fish and stand out innovation to countries around the world. We believe in doing the right thing by our people, planet and partners. Through our Fish for Life programme, we’re dedicated to doing this in a responsible and sustainable manner that protects our industry and our environment.

The main purpose is to successfully transfer approved kitchen samples to full factory production. In addition the NPD Technologist will be responsible for assisting in innovation and developing new product concepts and processes in response to customer or internal objectives.

Key Accountabilities:

- To project manage new and existing product projects from customer approval stage: co-ordinating factory trials to full scale launch, including dealing with customers on site for Pre-pro launches.
- To make up concept ideas on bench scale with a full cost breakdown & considerations made to process/HACCP
- To ensure adequate records are maintained at all times, documenting the trial process from start to finish.
- To co-ordinate any process trials and investigations, which may arise due to the needs of the business.
- To gain in depth knowledge of all products produced including all processes and machinery.
- Involved in new processes, ingredients, raw materials and packaging evaluations adhering to the HACCP principles.
- Conducting internal tastings and collating all tasting information.
- Responsible for organising Micro and Organoleptic shelf life trials, ensuring results are documented and correct storage is adhered to.
- Creating and updating when necessary QAS sheets for all new products.
- To attend and take part in product initial brain storms & come up with ideas
- To attend customer reviews when required
- To manage all sample requests both internal and external

The role holder plans and organises their work both proactively and reactively.

Proactive planning would typically be over a number of weeks or months and would include planning trials and meetings associated with the development process

The role holder must also be able to react to work e.g. shelf life results and customer requirements such as product changes