Food Technologist

Office Based

www.thenewtinsomerset.com

Your role

You and your up-to-date industry regulation knowledge will be integral to ensuring Food Safety discipline across our Retail and Production teams, assisting with the development, implementation and monitoring of programmes, policies, controls and procedures in accordance with industry standards and regulations. As part of this development and implementation you will provide ongoing training and education on food safety and practices to employees throughout the organisation.

Outside of the organisation, you will evaluate and monitor the food safety practices of our suppliers, addressing any issues which may rise and investigate any customer complaints which arise through out customer services team., * Help develop, implement, and manage comprehensive food safety programs, policies, and procedures in accordance with industry standards and regulations.

• Establish protocols for monitoring, verifying, and validating food safety controls throughout the supply chain and production processes.

• Provide ongoing training and education to employees on food safety best practices, hygiene, sanitation, and compliance requirements.

• Evaluate and monitor the food safety practices of suppliers and vendors to ensure the safety and quality of incoming materials.

• Customer complaints, investigation with suppliers and liaising with Customer Services Department to close off within required timescales.

• Prepare and present regular reports on food safety performance and improvements to management.

• Product specification management using given software, troubleshooting and suggesting improvements.

• Experience in a similar role

• Excellent communications skills and attention to detail

• Able to use IT skills to be able to collate and trend data

• Multi-tasking ability and able to work under pressure

• Ability to learn and adopt new processes and systems

• Experience with food labelling regulations, sensory analysis, HACCP and Food Hygiene

Bonus experience:

• Driving continuous improvement through audit and corrective actions in a diverse environment.

• Be able to deliver technical support and integrity for the estate within a production/hospitality driven environment.

• Hygiene checks – which can then be adapted into GMP hygiene checks upon complete of the production facility.

• Technical experience in chilled food manufacturing and Microbiology.

• Annual leave

• Employee discount, * A positive workplace environment with opportunities to develop both personally and professionally.

• Stay in shape with our complimentary use of our gym and wellbeing classes

• Look after your wellbeing with complimentary access to our Spa and swimming pools and our exclusive benefit of 50% of Spa Treatments.

• Enjoy shopping in both our shops on estate and online with 30% discount for all our colleagues and free delivery for any online purchases.

• Discover exclusive perks with our Discounted hotel stays for staff, accompanied by a fantastic 30% discount at our restaurants.

• The opportunity to ensure your views are heard and shape the future of the business via our Employee Engine Room.

• Complimentary garden membership for the Newt and our partner gardens including the Eden Project, Kew Gardens and The Lost Gardens of Heligan

• Complimentary meal whilst on shift, created using fresh produce from our estate by our dedicated staff food chefs

• We value your hard work and recognise your achievements through our colleague recognition programme "Newt Awards" with the opportunity to achieve a variety of amazing rewards including a complimentary Hotel Stay.

• Support from our Employee Assistance Programme for both yourself and your family

• A team that knows how to have fun with regular team engagement activities including monthly Gather and Grow Motivational Speakers and our regular fun squad events, which include activities such as Go-Karting and Wine Tasting, to name but a few.

• Up to 30 days annual leave each year for our full-time team