Technical Assistant

Technical Assistant

to £28,000 plus welcome bonus
Boston, Lincolnshire
Food Manufacturing
Job ref: 8855

The company

With years of experience in their specialist sector, this company has developed several much-loved brands. They pride themselves on high-end ingredients and quality products.

About the Technical Assistant job

The purpose of your role will be to assist in the effective running of the Technical department through product testing, internal auditing, complaint handling, and maintenance of documentation.

Key tasks

1. Ensuring compliance to company standards via internal audits and that corrective actions are completed with appropriate timescales and effectively managed through KPIs.
2. Ensure product quality meets the requirements of BRC and customer standards through effective sampling, testing, and auditing of product and process controls.
3. Identify and maintain any Health & Safety issues to provide a safe environment which complies with Company rules and legislation.
4. Assist with recording, investigating, and communicating customer complaints to ensure that the response to the customer gives satisfaction and confidence in the company.
5. Liaising with the Raw Materials & Specifications Technologist and NPD team to help ensure that all internal & external specification systems are kept up to date to ensure legal & customer compliance.

About You

You may be a recent Graduate within Food Science / Technology or similar, or you may have some good food manufacturing technical / quality experience already under your belt – or both.

Other qualifications such as legal food labelling, food safety, or HACCP would be ideal but not vital – as would experience of BRC standards.

More details

The Technical Assistant job (Ref 8855) is based in Boston, Lincolnshire and is paying to £28,000 plus welcome bonus according to your experience.

The company offers a great benefits package including a site-wide bonus scheme based on the company's and your performance, pension, employee discount, health & wellbeing programme, life insurance, and the ability to work from home.

The working hours are Monday – Friday, office hours.

This company is commutable from Spalding, Sleaford, Skegness, Horncastle, Woodhall Spa, Grantham, Lincoln.