Company description:
Premier Foods is one of Britain's biggest listed food companies, employing over 4,000 colleagues at 15 manufacturing sites and offices up and down the country. Many of our brands have been part of UK life for more than a century and you'll find them in 94% of British households.
At Premier foods we believe in inclusion, authenticity and individuality. We aim to ensure all existing and potential colleagues are given equitable opportunities and are respected, valued and encouraged to bring their true authentic selves to work no matter who they are, what they look like, who they love or what they believe in. Our culture is one where everyone is welcome.
Job description:
Process Technologist
Salary: Circa £35,000 depending on experience
40 hours per week
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Closing date for applications: Friday 12th July 2024
As a Process Technologist, you will be supporting the site in all aspects of Process engineering, optimisation, CI and BIP. You will support the EPD/NPD process (writing of NIC's, BOM's, trial requests, trials reports and specifications etc). You will also lead/manage all aspects of related projects/ trials.
What we need from you:
- Degree/equivalent in Food Science/Process Engineering.
- CI Toolkit including Multi-variant analysis, DoE, SPC, 5S, TPM, SIC, Process modelling,
- Value stream mapping.
- IT literate – systems orientated.
Some of our benefits include:
- Generous annual holiday allowance
- Generous pension contribution scheme
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- Sharesave programme
- On-site subsidised canteen offering a variety of hot/cold meals and snacks
- Employee discount scheme including travel, food and shopping discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme
- On site Electric Vehicle Charging Point
- Manager and peer recognition programme
- Cycle to work – including excellent bike storage facilities
Main duties and responsibilities include:
- Ensure all Health, Safety and Environmental procedures are followed. Support and enforce standards as set out in the site HSE policies.
- Drive a food safety quality culture through engagement and continuous improvement to maintain and improve the safety, authenticity, legality, and quality of products manufactured on site.
- Lead in the identification and improvement of site processes.
- Collaborate with manufacturing centre teams to drive improvements in yield, waste, and OEE.
- Provide expert knowledge to stakeholders on impact of process changes on operational outputs.
- Utilise awareness of new technologies and developments to drive improvements in site existing technologies and their application to site products and processes.
- Proactively identify and support supply chain scenario development and feasibility studies.
- Manage documentation relating to process specifications.
- Manage process change control.
- Support in innovation implementation – including process innovation projects, process specification for new processes, validation/commissioning support, product data coordination (NIC, BOM and specification processes)
- Support Quality department when required in support of QIR completion, identifying causes of quality issues to provide feasible solutions.
- Use process analysis to proactively identify/reduce quality issues related to CPMU data
The Worksop Site
The Worksop site was established in 1935, and we have four highly-automated factories on site that produce a variety of well-known brands and products including:
- OXO
- Sauces - including Sharwoods and Homepride
- Batchelors Supernoodles and Sharwoods Poppadoms
- Bisto gravy granules and SAXA salt
We have a workforce of around 500 colleagues.