Herbal Quality Technician

Herbal Quality Technician

Do you have practical experience gained in a herbal quality assurance laboratory? Are you looking for a new challenge and want to work with a structured process as well as having the opportunity to bring a new perspective? Do you aspire to work for a purposeful, sustainable and organic brand? Pukka Herbs are looking for a Herbal Quality Technician to ensure that we provide the best quality herbal products to our customers.

Based in our Bristol office the role comes with a competitive salary alongside a benefits package designed to nurture your wellbeing and personal development.

About Pukka Herbs

Pukka Herbs create delicious organic herbal teas and incredible health supplements that take people on a journey of discovery to a healthier, happier life, benefiting people, plants and the planet. Pukka Herbs began 15 years ago and is the fastest growing herbal tea company and the 6th fastest growing grocery brand in the UK. Over a million cups of Pukka tea are drunk every day and Pukka’s teas and supplements are sold in over 40 countries across the globe.

About the Herbal Quality Technician role

Our Quality team play a vital role in Pukka – it’s their job to ensure that all our raw materials are top notch and meet our exceptional quality standards before they go to our UK based manufacturers. We then check the finished product, whether that’s one of our delicious teas, fantastic wellbeing or food products, so that we send only the best to our customers. As you can imagine, that means we’ve got rigorous testing and tasting processes so we maintain our reputation for high quality products and with our massively growing sales portfolio.

As Herbal Quality Technician you will be fundamentally responsible for assuring the quality of the herbs we purchase by using the best quality standards and right testing methodologies. Working as part of our small team you’ll work to maintain an uninterrupted supply of quality raw materials. You’ll carry out quality assessments of raw materials their sampling, testing, data input and release, ensuring that the quality status of raw materials and blends is communicated at all times to colleagues and raw material/blend suppliers. You’ll undertake a range of testing that includes essential oil testing, physical assays, HPTLC, macroscopic and microscopic testing but is not limited to these.

You’ll generate data to assess quality performance of raw material suppliers, update raw materials specifications, produce technical documents related to herbal quality activities, and produce certificate of analysis and conformity for raw materials and blends. You’ll support the herbal quality team and resolve quality issues looking for speedy resolutions to any problems.

About you

You’ll have a scientific qualification to degree level, or equivalent, in Botanical Pharmacology, Chemistry or Biology with practical experience in a range of laboratory techniques for herbal quality assurance. It’s important that you have a wide experience of analytical and pharmacognostic techniques, gained within a food, or pharmaceutical environment and that you can operate effectively within a commercial framework.

Your other talents will include working with an attention to detail, being organized and meticulous in your approach and able to operate effectively in a relatively unsupervised environment with regular deadlines. To be successful in Pukka, you’ll have to love flexibility, be open to change. You’ll have experience of working within structured processes but also enjoy finding a creative solution and bringing fresh ideas.

To apply

If you’re intrigued and excited by what you’ve read so far, let’s see if you have what it takes to meet our uncompromising standards! If you’re not familiar with Pukka, grab a cuppa (preferably one of ours!) and check out the Pukka Planet to get a full understanding of who we are, what we do and why we do it.

To apply for this role please attach your CV demonstrating why you are a brilliant fit for Pukka and answers to the four questions below which form an essential part of our application process:

- Who are you?

- How do you relate to others?

- Heart or head?

- Describe your energy

Closing date – 21^st June 2017