Bakkavor
Process Technologist

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Process Technologist
Salary
Competitive salary
Benefits
- Company share save scheme
- Pension
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
Location
Greencore Spalding Meals, West Marsh Road, PE11 2BB
Ways of Working
Site Based
Hours of work
Monday-Friday, 08.30-17.00
Contract Type
Permanent
Why Greencore?
Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.
As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US.
Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.
Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.
Our site in Spalding is a vibrant hub where over 1,470 colleagues bring handcrafted sandwich wraps, salads, dips, soups, sauces, and mayonnaise to life across three manufacturing facilities and a distribution centre.
What you’ll be doing
In this busy and dynamic role as a Process Technologist you will deliver successful product validations in accordance to Greencore and customer principles in a fast paced challenging environment in line with business requirements and opportunities.
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Role Accountabilities
- Undertake trials in-line with the Greencore and Customer requirements and as instructed by Line Manager.
- Document all data from trials inc. shelf-life, organs etc, comprehensively and legibly for future review in order to establish process capabilities and support due diligence.
- Secure and submit appropriate samples as requested by Customer as well as those for analysis e.g. Microbiological, for organoleptic evaluation and for transit trials.
- Plan and organise resources to achieve the day to day delivery of trials etc, in-line with Project timescales.
- Working with NPD and Operations establish appropriate quality attributes for work in progress material, assembly and finished product taking into account operational capabilities.
- Carry out ongoing Process validation of relevant factory equipment to ensure site due diligence requirements are met.
- Co-ordinate Pre-Production and Launch preparation.
- Contribute to post launch evaluation of process in conjunction with NPD to ensure process established at launch is still valid for full scale production and implement improvements as necessary.
- To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment.
What we’re looking for
- 1-2 years demonstrable experience in a manufacturing environment in at least one of the following disciplines: Technical; Production; Development; or graduate in related discipline.
- Project Coordination; understands the critical path and delivers within agreed timeframe.
- Has good organisational skills and is able to manage own time and workload with the ability to multi-task.
- Has an understanding of the FMCG launch process relating to trials, development concepts and customer expectations.
- Is pragmatic in approach to problem solving and is agile in finding solutions.
- Is vigilant with good attention to detail and spots opportunities for improvement.
- Is a self starter who is inquisitive and driven to improve.


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We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.
If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.
What you’ll get in return
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- Holidays
- Competitive matched pension contributions
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
- Company share save scheme
- Greencore Qualifications
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
- Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.
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