Raw Materials Technologist – Leigh, Greater Manchester

We have a fantastic opportunity to join our Site Technical team contributing to the vital role of ensuring the quality and safety of our products. Joining the team provides a creative and exciting environment to build your career in.

What are we about?

AB World Foods is a branded food business famous for flavour and as great as our brands are, our people are what makes us special. We are committed to making ABWF a great place to work, grow & develop.

What’s the role about?

Reporting into the Raw Materials Team Leader you will be responsible for ensuring our raw materials (packaging and ingredients) are food safety and quality compliant.

You will be responsible for implementing our testing processes ensuring due diligence and assessing incoming raw materials in line with our plans. Using your sharp analytical skills, you will ensure all non-conformance investigations meet our high-standard and are detailed with robust root-cause analysis supported with effective corrective actions.

You will be responsible for collecting data to support supplier performance monitoring systems. As well as carrying out trend analysis of raw material tests to evaluate performance against KPI’s and identify areas to increase efficiency you will share responsibility for calibrating laboratory testing equipment and ensuring acceptable levels of laboratory consumables and chemicals are maintained.

In this role you will also play a key supporting role in building and maintaining “powerful partnerships” with our raw material suppliers through management of our supplier non-conformance system. Experience working in a laboratory environment is desirable.

How will you stand out?

• You have great organisational skills with a keen eye for detail.
• You’re a natural at building powerful partnerships and working collaboratively.
• You have a curious mind with the desire to gain a deeper understanding of challenges, using this to promote improvements.
• You excel at problem solving with good root cause analysis.
• You’re highly technical and able to identify trends and patterns in data.

To Apply: Please press the ‘Apply’ button, and shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 28 days. Thanks for your interest in the role.

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