Food Technologist

Market Leading Food Business now looking to recruit… Our client has a friendly and professional outlook and now an excellent opportunity arises to join this well established team… BASED LUTON ROLE Food Technologist Deputising for Technical Manager to ensure the following is completed: * Technical Management of customer specific projects working closely with other departments to ensure customer requirements are met. * Manage the customer’s technical requirements by liaising with suppliers. * Driving the quality evaluation and consistency panels across all products within the business and providing an agreed action plan with the relevant supplier. * International travel to sites for audits (customer and 3rd party) along with 1st productions of customer launches. * Manage the specification requirements of customers i.e. Word, Micros, Sedex etc * Writing and support with specification systems maintenance. * Supporting with the new product development and managing the launch for these new products. * Monitoring and manage the internal systems for complaints, KPI’s and documentation flow. * Investigating and reporting out of specification micro and chemical results * Providing process capability data for attributes on new products during the development process and verifying this data after 1st production. * Customer specific KPI reporting and assessment. * Ensuring packaging library up is up to date * QAS writing. * Working knowledge of internal Quality Management Systems to ensure product safety, legality, authenticity of the required quality. * Good working knowledge of Excel particularly formulas. In addition: * Managing annual product testing, as per customer requirements * Investigating and reporting out of specification results * Artwork approval * Managing shelf-life testing for all new and existing products * Supporting Technical Manager with customer queries * Managing packaging library * Export technical paperwork/traceability. * Customer specific complaints trending CANDIDATE You will be a fast learner with excellent attention to detail. You will join the team with a view to developing within the account (One of the Major Retailers) and the technical team. You could be either at graduate level or you may have several years\’ experience within a business. Mon-Fri Office Hours, 2-3 Days a week in the office *You must have the right to work in the UK