Process Technologist

Bringing excitement and inspiration to the menu since 2002.

We are the UK's leading supplier of added-value plant-based ingredients. Immersed in the latest food trends, we transform vegetables into irresistible, exciting, and inspired ingredients.

Through innovation and outstanding service, we collaborate with world-leading food service brands, chilled food manufacturers, and recipe box operators to help put vegetables where they belong - at the heart of the menu.

From our innovation chefs and new product development team to our operations experts, it’s our incredible people who have shaped us into innovative tastemakers. Their hard work and genuine passion for food allow us to create high-quality, bespoke food that transform our customers’ menus.

Position:

Job Purpose:

• To ensure the on time and accurate launch of products that deliver high quality, safety and efficiency for our customers, both internally and externally.
  
  

Key Responsibilities:

• Adhere to Freshcut Foods Health & Safety policies and procedures at all times
• Adhere to Freshcut Foods Food Safety and GMP policies and procedures at all times
• Organisation of trials with the cross functions ensuring that all information is collated and actions taken to ensure products are launched to our customer expectations
• The maintenance and creation of supporting documentation to provide the tools required to the key stakeholders that enable successful NPD/EPD launches
• Collection of data relating to quality and safety in the form of trial reports, QAS’s etc
• Responsible for projects end to end that deliver NPD, EPD and CI activities
• Support our customers and customer facing teams to ensure adequate and accurate information is shared. This includes the facilitation of customer visits with the commercial and technical teams
• Responsible for the communication of process development activities both internally and externally
• Working collaboratively with cross functions to achieve right first time launches that delight our customers and identify improvements in current processes
• Support meetings that relate to the concept to launch activities and have accountability for the completion of actions that relate to projects contained within the concept to launch process
• Reasonable requests to carry out other duties that may be required to fulfill the businesses strategic and operational effectiveness.
  
  

Requirements:

• Confident and competent communicator at all levels
• Proactive in approach to problem solving
• HACCP Level 2
• Food Safety Level 2
• HND or Degree qualified in a Science based discipline or similar
• Experience of working in a similar role within a similar category (Process/Technical/NPD)
• Proven understanding of concept to launch process