Food Technician and Quality Testing

Recruiter
Anonymous
Location
Portsmouth
Salary
22000.00 - 24000.00 GBP Annual
Posted
12 Nov 2018
Closes
10 Dec 2018
Sectors
IT, Testing
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Are you a Food Technician who can ensure consistency in quality testing with experience in the food & beverage industry looking for a new and fresh challenge within a growing company?

Are you passionate about food, love creating flavours and understand recipes but also have the ability to ensure consistency of products?

If so then this exciting opportunity is perfect for you!

Your Food Technician Role

As Quality Testing and Food Technician, your role will include tasting all products daily for positive release - there are around 35 products per day to re-heat and taste.

You'll also be:

-Organising delivery of samples.
-Over-seeing production on new lines.
-Chopping and prepping of ingredients.
-Researching food trends and new recipes.
-Washing up and cleaning the NPD kitchen.
-Liaising with the development chefs and operations.
-Weighing and preparing ingredients for bench-top samples.
-Liaising with the technical team for shelf life and specification details.
-And any other duties as required.

About you

For you to be able to fulfil your role as Quality Testing and Food Technician, you'll need to:

-Love food and flavours.
-Have strong communication skills and a desire to learn.
-HACCP, food safety and auditing skills would be very advantageous.
-Technical/Quality background with a proven experience in a Quality Assurance role.
-Be able to make decisions and escalate decisions that may fall outside of your control.
-Be fun, lively, but hard-working and focused with a high level of attention to detail.
-Have excellent written English and above average maths & IT skills.

Your Quality Assurance and Food Technician Benefits

-Salary: GBP22,000.00 to GBP24,000.00 /year.
-Ongoing training.
-Full time role with 28 days annual leave.
-Company pension scheme.
-Potential to be promoted from within.

Make Sure You Don't Miss Out On this very rare Quality Assurance and Food Technician role by clicking apply now