SENIOR PROCESS TECHNOLOGIST

We’re Proud to be Bakkavor
Salary: circa £35,000 depending on experience
Location: Old Leake (Boston PE22 9PN)
Shift: Monday – Friday
Hours: 08:30 – 17:00
Benefits include 10% company bonus, life insurance, staff shop, MyBargains discount platform and more.

WHAT WE DO

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.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Managing & developing team through PDPs, personal objectives that link to business objectives using a supportive and challenging environment. Setting SMART objectives for team. Effective team management.
• Scoping of projects, implementing KPIs for project & team. Supporting innovation & improvement plans in line with business objectives.
• Interaction with cross-functional departments to deliver the launch of successful products using influence to achieve project timescales. Influence from the start of the process development. Influence outcome of the start of product concept and manage expectations.
• Manage the completion of trials against the plan, in line with the business critical paths, taking an innovative and problem solving approach ensuring issues are captured, resolved and communicated across multiple functions, with an awareness of the budget. Using a pragmatic approach to checking microbiological and nutritional results ahead of launch.
• Manage customer panels (internal and external) in readiness for customer approval, ensuring they are in compliance with Business and customer expectations.
• Proactive planning and management of the critical path showing a 3 – 6 month plan in place. Defines the trial programme against the critical path to successfully launch products against timelines, achieving customer requirements.
• Understanding how changes to process have impact on cost of products and proactively communicating to the business any changes. Management of trial budget & budget objectives. Awareness of margin for projects and escalating any potential issue to key stakeholders.
• Ownership of the use of problem solving skills to outline opportunities to develop & improve product and offer solutions to resolve the issues to deliver stable & repeatable products for manufacturing. Root cause analysis.
• Ensuring the process department is audit ready through interpretation of validation for food safety and customer COP. Analysing and signing off data for factory documentation.
• To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Process Technologist to join Boston Meals. The site employs over 700 people and specialises in making chilled Italian ready meals and pasta salads products for a dedicated customer.
In this busy and exciting role, you’ll manage the delivery of successful product validations in accordance to Bakkavor and customer principles in a fast paced challenging environment in line with business requirements and opportunities.