The Bread Factory
New Process Development Technologist
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New Process Development Technologist
About us: The Bread Factory is London’s leading Artisan Bakery, known for award-winning breads, pastries, and cakes, supplying top-quality products across e-commerce, grocery, food services, and retailers such as our GAIL’s Bakeries nationwide. As our teams grow, we seek our next Process Technologist to join our NPD team. This role will require travel to both our Hendon and Milton Keynes Factories.
Every day is different at The Bread Factory, but here are some of the things you will be doing Receive and fully understand project handovers from the Development team, ensuring risk assessments are approved and process feasibility is assessed with mitigation plans in place. Plan and coordinate factory trials, including ordering and managing ingredient deliveries. Create and maintain detailed process flow documentation from test bakery/kitchen through to full factory scale. Record trial data including recipe details, line settings, adjustments, SPC data, key measurements, and photos. Finalise process documentation following successful scale-up trials and share updates with relevant stakeholders. Ensure shelf-life testing, nutritional analysis and lab assessments are completed and reflected in specifications. Ensure recipes are correctly set up within production systems and planning tools. Identify and implement improvement opportunities from trials and live production. Obtain approvals for Process Flow documents and Quality Attribute Standards.
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Our team tells us you will be a great addition if you hav Proven ability to scale recipes from test kitchen to factory production. Strong understanding of bakery manufacturing processes, systems and parameters Familiarity with process documentation, recipe management and production planning systems (experience with tools such as Cybake, Smartsheet or ERP systems is advantageous). Good understanding of ingredients, product functionality and basic nutrition. Strong numeracy and IT skills, including Excel and data analysis. Highly organised with strong attention to detail. Able to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment. Practical, hands-on approach to trials and problem solving. Able to work independently and use sound judgement. Strong collaborator, able to build relationships across teams.
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What’s in it for you: Fresh bread daily to take home to enjoy with family and friends. 50% discount at GAIL’s and 40% off at The Bread Factory & The Flour Station Markets. 25 days holiday + bank holidays Discounts and Savings from high-street retailers and restaurants 24-hour GP service Cycle to work scheme
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