*This role would suit someone who is a Graduate Food Technologist with 1-2 years experience*
MUST BE LOCAL TO BIRMINGHAM
Our client work with communities around the world to help them sell their produce in the UK and Europe. We select like-minded growers and producers who share our values, and many have been supplying us for over 25 years. They would now like to appoint a:
Graduate Technologist
Overview:
- The Graduate Technologist role reports into the Technical Manager and will focus towards the Vegetables side of the business.
- To uphold and drive quality and environmental standards on the facility
- To ensure technical compliance is maintained for BRC, TPPS and other standards
The Role:
- Understanding and decision making of product quality and seasonality
- Support the due diligence system taking responsibility for the maintenance of supplier records
- Supporting the supply base by engaging in ethical requirements and actions and documenting these for the team. Internal reporting for both customers and suppliers dealing with all stakeholders and systems.
- Support on internal audits
- Attendance at customer facing meetings to support wider team
- Attendance at supplier facing meetings to support wider team
- Management of customers specifications and communication to all relevant parties where appropriate, including management of our customers databases as required
- Lead as a product specialist, complementing sample preparation & bench marking
- Monthly KPI summaries
- Any other ad hoc duties
Skills:
- Ensure compliance with food safety law and customer GMP.
- Ensure suppliers operated within MWW and ETI guidelines.
- Represent the business at appropriate forums and meetings.
- Operate safe systems of works, carry out HACCP and COSHH
- Follows all company processes and time lines
- Responsible for Health and Safety of self, and team
Attributes:
- Flexibility to travel overseas
- Ability to Collation and analysis of information
- Product development skills
- Computer skills Word, excel, data bases,
- Pesticide awareness internal training, external awareness training
- Food hygiene basic, intermediate
- Knowledge of BRC accreditation
