Process Technologist

**Process Technologist**

**Location -** Bakkavor Bo'ness

**Salary**:£22,500 - £28,500 per annum (depending on experience)

**Shift -** Monday-Friday, 08.30-17.00

**Contract Type -** Fixed Term Contract - 12 Months

**Benefits Package**:
34 Days Annual Leave p/a

Pension

Life Insurance

Flexible benefits package

Staff Shop

Free Parking

Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

We’re proud to offer you a career with possibilities. To encourage you to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. To know that as a valued Process Technologist we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience and encourage you to create a career you can be proud of too.

**About Us**:
We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

**Our Business**:
Bakkavor is one of the leading providers of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.

Our Bakkavor business in Bo’ness, based near Falkirk, specialises in the production of fresh, high quality salad products working primarily with premium retailers. To give you a sense for the scale of manufacturing in Bo’ness we produce over 70million salad based meals and side dishes from our 2 manufacturing facilities employing over 1200 people in the town.

**The role**:
We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and detail orientated person to join our Wigan Technical Team as one of our Process Technologists. You will work collaboratively with Production and New Product Development to ensure that the correct processes are in place to scale product development across the site

**Duties**:

- Understanding of critical path
- Understanding of microbiological and nutritional sampling procedures ensuring compliance Completion of QAS’s to high standard and to customer expectations
- Understanding of customer requirements
- Delivery of validations in association with site CCPs and HACCP principles in line with project delivery.
- Proactively communicating potential issues which may impact the critical path. Ensures all materials have RM approval status or appropriate concession for trials.
- Completion of controlled documents for trials, pre-productions and launches against the customer specification & BOM.
- To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety, and the environment

**About you**:

- Previous demonstrable experience in a manufacturing environment in at least one of the following disciplines: Technical; Production; Development; or graduated in related discipline
- Project Coordination: The ability to understand the critical path and deliver within agreed timeframe
- Good organisational skills with the ability to multi-task and manage own time/workload
- Is aware of the business issues; trials; development concepts and customer expectations
- A pragmatic in approach to problem solving and is agile in finding solutions
- Vigilant with good attention to detail and spots opportunities for improvement
- A self-starter who is inquisitive and driven to improve

**What you can expect from us**:
When joining us you can expect a competitive salary and a strong benefits package and excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.