Development Technician

Location

Dudley, West Midlands | United Kingdom

Job description

About the Role:

Are you the innovative type with a proactive and naturally creative nature? Are you looking for a new challenge in your NPD career?

As an inclusive, forward-thinking business, we take pride in our approach to New Product Development across Avara Foods and are looking for a highly competent and motivated Development Technician to join our NPD Team, based at our Dudley site.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a self-focused "foodie", with a logical approach to their tasks and a customer focused mind.

Purpose of the role:
As a Development Technician you will work as part of the Avara NPD team and contribute to all aspects of the NPD facility in Dudley, supporting the Development Technologists during all aspects of the NPD process from concept to launch.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Ensure the smooth and safe running of the NPD kitchen facility to a Food Safety standard.
• Maintain the NPD facility and equipment, ensuring the environment is clean, stocked of raw material and consumable goods.
• Ensure all new equipment is risk assessed, procedures are written, and all kitchen users are trained.
• Ensure equipment is serviced & calibrated.
• Prepare samples for Customer submissions, Customer visits, Innovation sessions & Benchmarking sessions.
• Supporting the technologists on organoleptic assessments, performing cooking validations, preparation of nutrition samples, arranging Avara Taster Community samples, requesting supplier samples, supporting during factory trials, uploading of data sheets onto the Avara recipe system and measuring product attributes.
• Ensure ingredients required are ordered, purchased, and collected from the factory/ local restaurants/supermarkets/suppliers and stored according to the NPD Allergen procedure.
• Ensure all NPD audits carried out in Hereford achieve a minimum pass rate.
• Maintain the NPD area in the factory and ensure all samples are stored & labelled correctly.
• Assist on customer, internal and supplier presentations. This position will be required to travel to external locations for some presentations, so needs to be flexible.
• Build & maintain a network of contacts across multiple departments in both Hereford and other Avara sites.
• General support of technologists.

What we are looking for:

• Influencing skills, ability to train others.
• Good communicator-verbal and written.
• Self-motivated with initiative, patience, and perseverance.
• Good Computer skills (Microsoft Office).
• A minimum of 2years’ experience in the Food Industry e.g., Home Economics.
• Full Driving license.

Desirable

• Good organisational, practical and presentation skills.
• Good attention to detail.
• Basic Food Hygiene certificate.
• Manual Handling certificate.
• Is passionate or interested in Food Development.
• Knowledge of SharePoint & Recipe Professor.

A little about us:
Avara Foods is one of the UK’s largest food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the nation’s most popular supermarkets and restaurants. We are a fully integrated business controlling the whole product supply chain, which include feed mills, farms, hatcheries and factories with associated transport and logistics functions that employ more than 7000 people. This is achieved by investing in people, utilising the latest technology and being uncompromising in our commitment to high quality and food standards.

What’s in it for you?
As a Development Technician you will enjoy a secure, supportive and progressive working environment, where your contribution and achievements will be recognised and rewarded. We offer comprehensive training as well as continuous development as you build your career with us. You can also look forward to benefits that amongst other things include the following:

• 31 Days Holiday
• 5% Pension
• Life Insurance
• Various lifestyle benefits, including wellbeing resources

If you’re ready to work in a dynamic environment alongside talented people who take pride in delivering great results, apply today!

We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer.

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