Senior Process Technologist - #1749550

Senior Process Technologist -FTC /Secondment up to 12 months We're Proud to be Bakkavor Salary: Competitive Location: Bakkavor Meals - London - Abbeydale & Cumberland Shift: Monday - Friday Hours: 08:30 - 17:00 * flexibility required for business needs, requirements and audits* Benefits include up to 10% company bonus, life insurance, staff shop, MyBargains discount platform and more. Why join us? We're proud to offer you a career with options to explore and pursue. Where you'll be supported to work hard, push further and show resilience - can we remove this sentence. As a valued Senior Process Technologist, we'll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too. What we do This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal - West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories make chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products & savoury accompaniments and employs over 2,000 people. About the role This is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Process Technologist to join Bakkavor Meals London. In this exciting role, you'll manage the delivery of successful product trials to launch in accordance to Bakkavor and customer principles in a fast paced challenging environment in line with business requirements and opportunities. 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.
• Take part in 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 plan 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

About you:

• Proven track record in food manufacturing and exposure to customer trials and critical path management
• Sound operational experience within Process; Technical; Development or Operations
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to develop relationships and influence across different departments, is collaborative in approach to delivery
• Draw on experience and adopts a wide range of approaches to problem solving; root cause analysis and innovative thinking; is challenging of self and others
• Effective Project Management skills; works with stakeholders and suppliers to deliver trials on time to plan; make appropriate interventions
• People Management skills, is able to deliver through others and develop and coach team members
• Food Safety Level 3, HACCP Level 2
• Intermediate numeracy, literacy and IT skills

What you'll receive As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance Annual Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Apply now to find out more! #LI-LM1 #CVL