Technical Coordinator

Location: Eastwood

Contract: Permanent

Are you a meticulous problem-solver with a passion for baking and an eye for technical detail? Warburtons is seeking a highly organised and proactive Technical Coordinator to join our team and ensure the smooth, efficient production of our quality baked products. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy bridging the gap between baking artistry and technical precision, we want to hear from you!

Your strategic thinking and operational expertise will help us maintain the highest standards in ensuring the freshest products are delivered on time and in full to our customers.

The Role

As our Technical Coordinator, you will play a crucial role in maintaining and improving the quality standards, improving our production processes, ensuring adherence to food safety standards and optimising efficiency. You will be the go-to person for technical troubleshooting and will work closely with our production and engineering teams.

• Quality Control: Implement and maintain robust quality control procedures, ensuring consistent product quality and adherence to specifications.
• Food Safety: Ensure compliance with all relevant food safety regulations and standards (e.g., HACCP), maintaining accurate records and conducting regular audits.
• Production Efficiency: Analyse production processes to identify areas for improvement and implement solutions to optimise efficiency and reduce waste.
• Equipment Maintenance: Coordinate preventative maintenance and troubleshooting of bakery equipment, working with internal and external engineers as required.
• Technical Documentation: Maintain accurate records of production processes specifications and quality control checks.
• Ingredient Management: Monitor and manage ingredient traceability and ingredient trials.
• Training & Support: Provide technical support and training to bakery staff on production processes and quality.
• Problem Solving: Investigate and resolve technical issues that arise during production, ensuring minimal disruption.
• Reporting: Generate regular reports on quality performance, customer complaints and food safety.

Essential Ingredients

• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment as an administrator or co-ordinator.
• Excellent IT skills including experience of working with various IT systems, Excel and spreadsheets.
• Strong team working ethic.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and as part of a wider site function.
• Good relationship builder- collaborative in approach, establishing credible, trusted relationships with both internal and external contacts at all levels.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong balanced judgement and use a pragmatic common-sense approach.
• Attention to detail and high, consistent levels of accuracy.
• Prioritising and Organisation - Ability to plan and organise and monitor a diverse workload.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Relevant qualifications in food science, engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with bakery equipment and processes.
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing principles.
• Proven experience in a technical coordination or quality control role within a food production environment (bakery experience preferred).
• Strong understanding of food safety regulations and HACCP principles.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Technical aptitude and ability to understand and troubleshoot machinery.

Competitive salary (dependent on experience). Opportunity to work in a passionate and supportive team. Chance to contribute to the success of a thriving bakery business.

Extra Dough

At last and by no means least you will want to know what your bread's worth. A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share). Family time is important to us so as well as your holiday entitlement, we'll give you the opportunity to purchase up to an extra week's annual leave. Award winning pension scheme with company contributions of 7%. Life assurance. Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website. Continued investment in your personal development. Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew! Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service.

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.