Food Technologist

We’re working with a well-established food business that prides itself on quality, pace and strong customer relationships. As part of a growing technical function, they are looking to appoint a Food Technologist who enjoys variety, responsibility and working cross‑functionally in a fast-moving environment.

Role Overview

This role sits within the Technical team and reports directly into a Customer Technical Manager. The Food Technologist will play a key part in supporting both internal teams and external customers, ensuring products meet all technical, legal and quality requirements. It’s a hands-on role that blends customer-facing activity with factory-based technical support, offering excellent exposure across the full product lifecycle.

Key Accountabilities

• Providing day-to-day technical support to the business, suppliers and customers
• Managing and completing customer technical requests in a timely and well-organised manner
• Investigating customer complaints and contributing to monthly complaint KPI reporting
• Supporting customer audits, site visits and third-party inspections
• Assisting with customer KPI reviews and associated follow-up actions
• Maintaining and updating technical documentation, including Quality Attribute sheets
• Supporting the development and maintenance of company policies in line with legislation and customer standards
• Keeping up to date with food legislation and communicating relevant changes internally
• Benchmarking products to ensure technical compliance with agreed specifications
• Working closely with NPD and Commercial teams to support successful product launches
• Ensuring new products are assessed for nutrition, shelf life and customer requirements
• Supporting development trials and PPR trials
• Maintaining accurate product data within internal technical systems
• Promoting high standards of health, safety, hygiene and legality across the site

People Profile

• Experience within a food manufacturing or food supply technical role
• Sound understanding of food safety, quality and legal compliance
• Confident dealing with customers and handling technical queries and complaints
• Experience supporting audits and working to customer and third-party standards
• Comfortable managing technical documentation and product specifications
• Able to work collaboratively with Technical, NPD and Commercial teams
• Well organised, detail focused and able to manage multiple priorities
• A proactive approach with the confidence to challenge unsafe or non-compliant practices
• Strong communication skills and a professional, positive manner

We regret we can not offer visa sponsorship and can only consider candidates who hold right to work in the UK.

To apply, please e-mail in strict confidence, with a comprehensive CV, including salary details, quoting the above reference and for the attention of James Constable.

Due to a high volume of responses, we cannot reply to each application individually. If you have not had a response within one week, we are sorry to say your application has not been successful on this occasion.