D R Newitt Recruitment
Senior NPD Technologist

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Job Opportunity at D R Newitt
D R Newitt are working with a close client in the Food Manufacturing industry who, due to growth, are currently seeking a Senior Process Technologist to join the team on a permanent basis.
Salary and Benefits
On offer is a salary of up to £42,000 plus unique company benefits.
Key Duties
- To fully understand the NPD process, lead all aspects of the NPD Process stage of product development, technical details of the plant and dairy.
- To manage/support processes development of product bases through bench, pilot, and main plant development activities including hands-on delivery.
- To create and maintain excellent working relationships with Customers and be the NPD lead for customer attendance to factory trials.
- Joint responsibility with the concept Technologist for Trials/1st productions product quality, recipe and blend control, batch traceability, and yields.
- To ensure that Blend sheets have Allergen and PPE information, Spec information included, detailed processing info on the specific ingredients, accuracy of information to drive right first time.
- To set up Trials documentation, request with IT and notifying Process Technologist, Request Trials on the Production Plan.
- To ensure that Trial documents/Blend sheets are signed off with Operations/Technical Team and host pre-trial/launch meetings.
- To generate trial and launch reports to share internally and with the customer, any Trial/1st production.
- Customer feedback is built into Final Blend sheet/QAS.
- Liaise with Artwork/Admin, specifications technologist to ensure all obtained info is up to date and critical paths are hit.
- Creation of QAS’s and updates, trial taste panel coordination, and collation of results.
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