Quality Systems Manager We're proud to be Bakkavor Competitive Salary Short Term Bonus Scheme, Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Devizes, SN10 2EU Site based Monday to Friday / 08:30 - 17:00 Permanent Why join us? We're proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. About the role. Bakkavor Devizes in Wiltshire specialises in making delicious, chilled desserts such as tarts, yum yums, doughnuts, crumbles, pies and pastries. The site employs over 600 people and is close to Swindon. We're proud to offer you a career with real scope for development. To reward your hard work and ambition as a talented Quality Systems Manager with plenty of support and opportunity. And empower you to drive your own success and create a career you can be proud of too. In this busy and exciting role, you will undertake responsibility for all technical systems, internal audits, legislation and customer requirements. Role Accountabilities: Managing and developing the quality management system across the business, ensuring all the QMS documentation is relevant, controlled and meets the requirements of legislation and industry standards. Establishing and maintaining a process of auditing against the QMS to review compliance. Creating and maintaining a structured review process of industry, customer and business codes of practice - presenting action plans to the technical & operations teams, driving continuous improvement and best practice. Managing the internal audit programme and ensuring actions are communicated and closed out within agreed timescales. Collating all information relating to food standards agency and customer alerts - communicating such issues to the technical management team and responding in a timely manner. Managing the business HACCP teams - coordinating and documenting review meetings whilst ensuring all amends / updates are implemented across the appropriate business functions. Managing BRC and Bakkavor pillar audits and communicating as appropriate - ensuring non-conformances are closed out within agreed timescales. Functioning in a safe working manner and supporting your team to operate to the same standard. Supporting the site / business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment. About you The ideal candidate will have: Ideally, you will have previous experience of a quality management role within a fast-paced food manufacturing or FMCG environment - with extensive knowledge of quality management systems (QMS). Strong MS excel and number crunching skills are essential, along with a working history of dealing with audits, allergens and undertaking risk assessments. You will be competent and confident at producing KPI reports, implementing improvements and managing customer complaint and non-conformance meetings. If you have a passion for quality assurance and outstanding service delivery - this could be the perfect role for you. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Short Term Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme MyBargains Discount Platform Personal Accident Insurance Free Independent Mortgage Advice Employee Assistance Programme A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Private Medical Insurance Free Carparking Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply
08/09/2025
Full time
Quality Systems Manager We're proud to be Bakkavor Competitive Salary Short Term Bonus Scheme, Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Devizes, SN10 2EU Site based Monday to Friday / 08:30 - 17:00 Permanent Why join us? We're proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. About the role. Bakkavor Devizes in Wiltshire specialises in making delicious, chilled desserts such as tarts, yum yums, doughnuts, crumbles, pies and pastries. The site employs over 600 people and is close to Swindon. We're proud to offer you a career with real scope for development. To reward your hard work and ambition as a talented Quality Systems Manager with plenty of support and opportunity. And empower you to drive your own success and create a career you can be proud of too. In this busy and exciting role, you will undertake responsibility for all technical systems, internal audits, legislation and customer requirements. Role Accountabilities: Managing and developing the quality management system across the business, ensuring all the QMS documentation is relevant, controlled and meets the requirements of legislation and industry standards. Establishing and maintaining a process of auditing against the QMS to review compliance. Creating and maintaining a structured review process of industry, customer and business codes of practice - presenting action plans to the technical & operations teams, driving continuous improvement and best practice. Managing the internal audit programme and ensuring actions are communicated and closed out within agreed timescales. Collating all information relating to food standards agency and customer alerts - communicating such issues to the technical management team and responding in a timely manner. Managing the business HACCP teams - coordinating and documenting review meetings whilst ensuring all amends / updates are implemented across the appropriate business functions. Managing BRC and Bakkavor pillar audits and communicating as appropriate - ensuring non-conformances are closed out within agreed timescales. Functioning in a safe working manner and supporting your team to operate to the same standard. Supporting the site / business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment. About you The ideal candidate will have: Ideally, you will have previous experience of a quality management role within a fast-paced food manufacturing or FMCG environment - with extensive knowledge of quality management systems (QMS). Strong MS excel and number crunching skills are essential, along with a working history of dealing with audits, allergens and undertaking risk assessments. You will be competent and confident at producing KPI reports, implementing improvements and managing customer complaint and non-conformance meetings. If you have a passion for quality assurance and outstanding service delivery - this could be the perfect role for you. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Short Term Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme MyBargains Discount Platform Personal Accident Insurance Free Independent Mortgage Advice Employee Assistance Programme A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Private Medical Insurance Free Carparking Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply
Senior Raw Materials Technologist ( Food Industry) We drive our own success. Competitive salary On site staff shop, MyBargains discount platform and more. Bakkavor Meals London - Park Royal (Cumberland site) Fully Site based Monday - Friday 8.30am -5pm Permanent role Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing, and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. We believe in fueling ambition and guiding success. In supporting everyone with talent and drive to own what they do, realize their potential, and build a brilliant future for themselves at Bakkavor. What we do. This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal - West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories make chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products & savoury accompaniments and employs over 2,000 people. About the role. In this busy and exciting role, your key focus will be to ensure that customer, business unit and legal requirements for raw materials and supplier quality assurance are achieved, that quality, safety and risk evaluation systems are in place, monitored and corrective actions completed. You will lead and motivate the raw material technologists ensuring role activities are delivered to a high standard and support the team resource planning. This role reports into the Raw Materials Manager, your role will involve working closely with Group Central Technical, Specification, NPD, Buying, Process and Quality departments. Accountabilities: Will ensure that there is an approved and active Insight specification available for all raw materials used on site. Work closely with manager to ensure that all suppliers either existing to the business or a new supplier/material to be introduced into the business has full/current approval status Ensure that all raw material specifications are reviewed and risk assessed to the outlined frequency and include requirements for quality and technical purposes relevant to Bakkavor. You will support the site risk assessment process through liaising with suppliers to capture all relevant information. Participate in Technical audits including customer and Group Technical, ensuring all relevant raw material information is available and completed in the required timescale Audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence, effectively communicated to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action & to follow up and monitor completion of actions. Will compile monthly internal KPI's for the site Raw Materials team for example: % active specifications, risk assessment status, supplier approval & raw material specification review. Understand the sites Customer requirements in regards raw material controls, microbiological specifications and processing parameters and effectively communicates these to both the internal site teams and the raw material suppliers in a timely manner. Where issues are identified, these will be communicated to all necessary parties as early on in the process as possible. About you. Drive and enthusiasm in all aspects of the technical role. Be able to work effectively within a team environment and also on own initiative Be computer literate and conversant in Word, Excel and Access packages and be able to generate procedures, graphs, reports and presentations Have a flexible approach to the role and the hours required as dictated by the business needs Be an effective communicator (written and oral) at all levels of management and with both internal and external customers / suppliers Have previous experience within the food industry and in a technical role HACCP Level 3 (or higher) Strong technical skills, including knowledge of Excel, and specification systems What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme MyBargains Discount Platform Personal Accident Insurance Free Independent Mortgage Advice Employee Assistance Programme A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Private Medical Insurance (after 5 years service) Free Carparking Proud to be Bakkavor. We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
08/09/2025
Full time
Senior Raw Materials Technologist ( Food Industry) We drive our own success. Competitive salary On site staff shop, MyBargains discount platform and more. Bakkavor Meals London - Park Royal (Cumberland site) Fully Site based Monday - Friday 8.30am -5pm Permanent role Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing, and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. We believe in fueling ambition and guiding success. In supporting everyone with talent and drive to own what they do, realize their potential, and build a brilliant future for themselves at Bakkavor. What we do. This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal - West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories make chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products & savoury accompaniments and employs over 2,000 people. About the role. In this busy and exciting role, your key focus will be to ensure that customer, business unit and legal requirements for raw materials and supplier quality assurance are achieved, that quality, safety and risk evaluation systems are in place, monitored and corrective actions completed. You will lead and motivate the raw material technologists ensuring role activities are delivered to a high standard and support the team resource planning. This role reports into the Raw Materials Manager, your role will involve working closely with Group Central Technical, Specification, NPD, Buying, Process and Quality departments. Accountabilities: Will ensure that there is an approved and active Insight specification available for all raw materials used on site. Work closely with manager to ensure that all suppliers either existing to the business or a new supplier/material to be introduced into the business has full/current approval status Ensure that all raw material specifications are reviewed and risk assessed to the outlined frequency and include requirements for quality and technical purposes relevant to Bakkavor. You will support the site risk assessment process through liaising with suppliers to capture all relevant information. Participate in Technical audits including customer and Group Technical, ensuring all relevant raw material information is available and completed in the required timescale Audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence, effectively communicated to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action & to follow up and monitor completion of actions. Will compile monthly internal KPI's for the site Raw Materials team for example: % active specifications, risk assessment status, supplier approval & raw material specification review. Understand the sites Customer requirements in regards raw material controls, microbiological specifications and processing parameters and effectively communicates these to both the internal site teams and the raw material suppliers in a timely manner. Where issues are identified, these will be communicated to all necessary parties as early on in the process as possible. About you. Drive and enthusiasm in all aspects of the technical role. Be able to work effectively within a team environment and also on own initiative Be computer literate and conversant in Word, Excel and Access packages and be able to generate procedures, graphs, reports and presentations Have a flexible approach to the role and the hours required as dictated by the business needs Be an effective communicator (written and oral) at all levels of management and with both internal and external customers / suppliers Have previous experience within the food industry and in a technical role HACCP Level 3 (or higher) Strong technical skills, including knowledge of Excel, and specification systems What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme MyBargains Discount Platform Personal Accident Insurance Free Independent Mortgage Advice Employee Assistance Programme A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Private Medical Insurance (after 5 years service) Free Carparking Proud to be Bakkavor. We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Data Quality Analyst Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career Salary - £50,000 - £60,000 Benefits - Life Assurance (2.5 x salary), 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard Private medical insurance Location - Spalding Hybrid Working 8:30am to 5:00pm - Monday to Friday (37.5 hours per week) Contract Type - 12 month FTC Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role In this busy and exciting role, you will become a subject matter expert, working within the Data & Reporting team of Group IT. You will report to the Data and Reporting Solution Architect with responsibility for enhancing / maintaining the quality of data assets throughout their lifecycle, from acquisition to retirement, focusing on SAP for Finance (OTC, R2R & P2P). As a technical specialist, you will be the primary advocate for data quality, offering expert guidance and direction in the areas relating to data governance and data quality management - this includes developing and implementing data quality frameworks, designing, and deploying data quality solutions and rules, and conducting testing and training activities. You will be collaborating closely with key business stakeholders to understand their data quality requirements and objectives and translate them into actionable outputs, whilst maintaining a comprehensive understanding of data quality tools, techniques, and emerging technologies. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the strategic planning process by providing insights and recommendations for evolving data quality standards / practices and will work closely with IT Leads and Business Data Stewards / Owners to ensure alignment between data quality initiatives and the broader strategies of Application Transformation and Data and Reporting governance. Join our tight knit team as we embark on an exciting and high-profile business transformation programme where each member's contribution is integral to Bakkavor's success. You'll have the opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping how Bakkavor values its data and unlocks its full potential. About you Ideally, you will be educated to bachelor's degree level or hold a relevant professional or IT qualification - including relevant certifications associated with data management, data governance or data analysis. Data Migration experience, particularly with ERPs including SAP S/4Hana, coupled with experience in data structures and functionalities with a preference towards the finance and supply chain transformation capabilities - will be key. You will preferably have firsthand experience of using SAP Migration Cockpit for cleansing activities coupled with knowledge of working within initiatives aimed at centralising or governing historically federated data. Additional knowledge of working with Microsoft Azure technologies to achieve similar aims would be advantageous. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance Annual Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
08/09/2025
Full time
Data Quality Analyst Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career Salary - £50,000 - £60,000 Benefits - Life Assurance (2.5 x salary), 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard Private medical insurance Location - Spalding Hybrid Working 8:30am to 5:00pm - Monday to Friday (37.5 hours per week) Contract Type - 12 month FTC Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role In this busy and exciting role, you will become a subject matter expert, working within the Data & Reporting team of Group IT. You will report to the Data and Reporting Solution Architect with responsibility for enhancing / maintaining the quality of data assets throughout their lifecycle, from acquisition to retirement, focusing on SAP for Finance (OTC, R2R & P2P). As a technical specialist, you will be the primary advocate for data quality, offering expert guidance and direction in the areas relating to data governance and data quality management - this includes developing and implementing data quality frameworks, designing, and deploying data quality solutions and rules, and conducting testing and training activities. You will be collaborating closely with key business stakeholders to understand their data quality requirements and objectives and translate them into actionable outputs, whilst maintaining a comprehensive understanding of data quality tools, techniques, and emerging technologies. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the strategic planning process by providing insights and recommendations for evolving data quality standards / practices and will work closely with IT Leads and Business Data Stewards / Owners to ensure alignment between data quality initiatives and the broader strategies of Application Transformation and Data and Reporting governance. Join our tight knit team as we embark on an exciting and high-profile business transformation programme where each member's contribution is integral to Bakkavor's success. You'll have the opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping how Bakkavor values its data and unlocks its full potential. About you Ideally, you will be educated to bachelor's degree level or hold a relevant professional or IT qualification - including relevant certifications associated with data management, data governance or data analysis. Data Migration experience, particularly with ERPs including SAP S/4Hana, coupled with experience in data structures and functionalities with a preference towards the finance and supply chain transformation capabilities - will be key. You will preferably have firsthand experience of using SAP Migration Cockpit for cleansing activities coupled with knowledge of working within initiatives aimed at centralising or governing historically federated data. Additional knowledge of working with Microsoft Azure technologies to achieve similar aims would be advantageous. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance Annual Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Raw Materials QA- Bo'ness (FTC- 6 months) We rise to challenges together Tuesday - Saturday 7am - 3pm or 8am -4pm ( flexibility required for business needs & requirements) Yearly salary: up to £27,019 based on experience Highly competitive reward package including life insurance, staff shop, MyBargains discount platform Fully site based Why join us? We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together. What we do. This particular role is based at our Bakkavor Salads Bo'ness site, which employs over 1,000 people and produces food-to-go salads and salad accompaniments to a number of customers. It is located 3.5 miles from Linlithgow and 8 miles to Falkirk. About the role. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven and motivated Raw Materials Quality Auditor to join our food manufacturing technical team - to be accountable for ensuring industry leading high standards of product safety, quality & legality. Accountabilities: Assessing all incoming deliveries against a pre-determined raw material specification. Maintaining accurate records of all raw materials (including packaging) entering the site Collecting samples for microbiological, nutritional, quality and chemical sampling against a pre-determined schedule and report progress in a timely manner With guidance from Line Manager, coordinating day to day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs Participating in Technical audits including customer and Group Technical, ensuring all relevant raw material information is available and completed in the required timescale Auditing compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls - raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence, effectively communicated to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action & to follow up and monitor completion of actions Developing relationships with suppliers by ensuring all non-conformances are communicated in a timely manner. Monitoring whether responses have been received and review the action plans to ensure root cause has been considered. Ensuring that all customer complaints in relation to raw materials are investigated satisfactorily and corrective actions are agreed and documented. Investigation findings will be reported to the site Quality/Systems Manager. Logging non-conformances associated with raw materials identified through intake checks, factory issues and/or customer complaints in order that supplier performance can be monitored and trended. Operating in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment About you. You will be a driven and highly motivated with the willingness to learn. Great attention to detail is needed in this role as you will be required to fill documentation out which must be correct. You will be an excellent communicator who has the ability to liaise with other areas of the business when required and who can work alone with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving You will have strong computer skills to be successful in this role. You will always adopt a thorough and diligent approach to every task and you will be able to demonstrate our key values - Respect & Trust each other, be proud of what we do, keep the customer at the heart of what we do, get it right keep it right. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (1 x salary) 34 days holiday Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme MyBargains Discount Platform Personal Accident Insurance Free Independent Mortgage Advice Employee Assistance Programme A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Private Medical Insurance (after 5 years service) Free Carparking Proud to be Bakkavor. We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
08/09/2025
Full time
Raw Materials QA- Bo'ness (FTC- 6 months) We rise to challenges together Tuesday - Saturday 7am - 3pm or 8am -4pm ( flexibility required for business needs & requirements) Yearly salary: up to £27,019 based on experience Highly competitive reward package including life insurance, staff shop, MyBargains discount platform Fully site based Why join us? We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together. What we do. This particular role is based at our Bakkavor Salads Bo'ness site, which employs over 1,000 people and produces food-to-go salads and salad accompaniments to a number of customers. It is located 3.5 miles from Linlithgow and 8 miles to Falkirk. About the role. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven and motivated Raw Materials Quality Auditor to join our food manufacturing technical team - to be accountable for ensuring industry leading high standards of product safety, quality & legality. Accountabilities: Assessing all incoming deliveries against a pre-determined raw material specification. Maintaining accurate records of all raw materials (including packaging) entering the site Collecting samples for microbiological, nutritional, quality and chemical sampling against a pre-determined schedule and report progress in a timely manner With guidance from Line Manager, coordinating day to day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs Participating in Technical audits including customer and Group Technical, ensuring all relevant raw material information is available and completed in the required timescale Auditing compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls - raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence, effectively communicated to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action & to follow up and monitor completion of actions Developing relationships with suppliers by ensuring all non-conformances are communicated in a timely manner. Monitoring whether responses have been received and review the action plans to ensure root cause has been considered. Ensuring that all customer complaints in relation to raw materials are investigated satisfactorily and corrective actions are agreed and documented. Investigation findings will be reported to the site Quality/Systems Manager. Logging non-conformances associated with raw materials identified through intake checks, factory issues and/or customer complaints in order that supplier performance can be monitored and trended. Operating in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment About you. You will be a driven and highly motivated with the willingness to learn. Great attention to detail is needed in this role as you will be required to fill documentation out which must be correct. You will be an excellent communicator who has the ability to liaise with other areas of the business when required and who can work alone with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving You will have strong computer skills to be successful in this role. You will always adopt a thorough and diligent approach to every task and you will be able to demonstrate our key values - Respect & Trust each other, be proud of what we do, keep the customer at the heart of what we do, get it right keep it right. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (1 x salary) 34 days holiday Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme MyBargains Discount Platform Personal Accident Insurance Free Independent Mortgage Advice Employee Assistance Programme A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Private Medical Insurance (after 5 years service) Free Carparking Proud to be Bakkavor. We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
We drive our own success Quality Assurance Supervisor - £30,000 - £34,000 depending on experience Salary Salary: £30,000 - £34,000 per annum Location: Bo'ness Ways of Working: Site Based Shift: Monday - Friday 8:30-17:00 Contract Type: Permanent Benefits: Life Assurance, 25 Days Holiday Please be informed that this role offers a job share option, which aims to promote a collaborative approach to workload management and improved work-life balance by sharing a full-time role with another colleague. Why join us? We're proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. About the role. This particular role is based at our Bakkavor Salads Bo'ness site, which employs over 1,000 people and produces food-to-go salads and salad accompaniments to a number of customers. It is located 3.5 miles from Linlithgow and 8 miles to Falkirk. As QA Supervisor, your key focus will be to lead and motivate the QA team in monitoring and evaluating product and processing systems and factory practices. In this busy and exciting role, you will ensure agreed standards of quality are achieved and improved upon, whilst taking a lead in generating and building a quality culture. Role Accountabilities: To participate and direct QA team to observe and audit production processes and GMP, ensuring products are made to specification and within customer codes of practice and Bakkavor standards - reporting findings to managers as appropriate To assist in delivery of site standards for visits and audits either through direct input, indirect support and / or organisation of QA team activities To coordinate non-conformance findings including actions taken and report to relevant department managers - ensuring completion of any required corrective actions from day to day issues e.g. micro results for positive release. In addition, trend non-conformances to identify recurring issues and find and recommend permanent solutions To ensure products and ingredients are evaluated against specification To support the promotion of a quality culture and help to develop the quality management system To coordinate QA requirements for product launches e.g. updating required documentation and systems, liaison with Process team and line support to ensure product is manufactured to correct standard With guidance from Line Manager, manage QA activities required to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs e.g. audit of non-conforming processes, complaint investigations, update of swab schedules, GMP audits, glass, and plastic audits To plan and co-ordinate work of the QA team to meet requirements of the quality management system and the needs of the business ensuring that the QA team are kept up to date with all business and customer communication as appropriate Lead, motivate and inspire QA team to achieve personal development and continuous improvement To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety, and the environment About you Ideally you will have a good practical working knowledge of food safety legislation and quality requirements. A strong QA background is desirable for this role but more importantly you will be energetic, punctual, proactive, and reliable with the ability to lead, guide, and motivate others towards achievement. HACCP knowledge, a food science qualification or equivalent and experience in the manufacturing industry within a high care / high risk environment will be favourable What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply
07/09/2025
Full time
We drive our own success Quality Assurance Supervisor - £30,000 - £34,000 depending on experience Salary Salary: £30,000 - £34,000 per annum Location: Bo'ness Ways of Working: Site Based Shift: Monday - Friday 8:30-17:00 Contract Type: Permanent Benefits: Life Assurance, 25 Days Holiday Please be informed that this role offers a job share option, which aims to promote a collaborative approach to workload management and improved work-life balance by sharing a full-time role with another colleague. Why join us? We're proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. About the role. This particular role is based at our Bakkavor Salads Bo'ness site, which employs over 1,000 people and produces food-to-go salads and salad accompaniments to a number of customers. It is located 3.5 miles from Linlithgow and 8 miles to Falkirk. As QA Supervisor, your key focus will be to lead and motivate the QA team in monitoring and evaluating product and processing systems and factory practices. In this busy and exciting role, you will ensure agreed standards of quality are achieved and improved upon, whilst taking a lead in generating and building a quality culture. Role Accountabilities: To participate and direct QA team to observe and audit production processes and GMP, ensuring products are made to specification and within customer codes of practice and Bakkavor standards - reporting findings to managers as appropriate To assist in delivery of site standards for visits and audits either through direct input, indirect support and / or organisation of QA team activities To coordinate non-conformance findings including actions taken and report to relevant department managers - ensuring completion of any required corrective actions from day to day issues e.g. micro results for positive release. In addition, trend non-conformances to identify recurring issues and find and recommend permanent solutions To ensure products and ingredients are evaluated against specification To support the promotion of a quality culture and help to develop the quality management system To coordinate QA requirements for product launches e.g. updating required documentation and systems, liaison with Process team and line support to ensure product is manufactured to correct standard With guidance from Line Manager, manage QA activities required to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs e.g. audit of non-conforming processes, complaint investigations, update of swab schedules, GMP audits, glass, and plastic audits To plan and co-ordinate work of the QA team to meet requirements of the quality management system and the needs of the business ensuring that the QA team are kept up to date with all business and customer communication as appropriate Lead, motivate and inspire QA team to achieve personal development and continuous improvement To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety, and the environment About you Ideally you will have a good practical working knowledge of food safety legislation and quality requirements. A strong QA background is desirable for this role but more importantly you will be energetic, punctual, proactive, and reliable with the ability to lead, guide, and motivate others towards achievement. HACCP knowledge, a food science qualification or equivalent and experience in the manufacturing industry within a high care / high risk environment will be favourable What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply
We're Proud to be Bakkavor Specifications Technologist Salary: Competitive Location: Bakkavor Meals London - Elveden site Ways of working - Remote Contract Type: Permanent Shift: Monday - Friday 8.30am-5pm Remote based- Flexibility is required for business needs and requirements, including one week on site for training & induction and Spec team days Benefits include pension, flexible benefits, 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays Why join us? We're proud of what we do, why we do it and who we do it for. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. We're proud of our caring culture, loyal colleagues and future focus. But, most of all, we're proud to enable and empower everyone to believe, achieve and succeed. What we do. This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal - West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories make chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products & savoury accompaniments and employs over 2,000 people. About the role. We are looking to recruit a Specifications Technologist to join our Technical team. Completion of finished product specifications to meet the critical path and/or customer requirements ensuring right first time. Review and completion of finished product artwork checks to ensure the finished product critical path is met. To ensure all retailer online systems are reviewed and the housekeeping of finished product specifications / site details are kept up to date and accurate. To ensure the customer interface internally and externally are managed professionally and in a timely manner and contribute to customer audits and visits leading in areas of expertise. To conduct audits as part of the internal audit team. Administration and inputting of data for customer complaints, KPI reports and analytical data to support the technical systems team when required. Administration and completion of projects to assist in the compliance of the Quality Management System. Administration and completion of the nutritional verification schedule. General office duties, e.g. filing / archiving, laminating of documents. Other duties as required to assist the Technical Services Team appropriate with the level of responsibility. About you Ideally you will have previous experience within a specification's technologist role or similar position. Have experience as a Specifications Technologist or Specification Writing. The role may also be suitable for a Food Science Graduate interested by a career path in Nutrition and Specifications of products. Be a confident and articulate communicator. Have excellent computer skills. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written. The ability to analyse information and accurately record or report in a clear and competent manner. Good IT and problem-solving skills. Ability to manage multiple tasks and deliver to tight deadlines under pressure. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor. We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
06/09/2025
Full time
We're Proud to be Bakkavor Specifications Technologist Salary: Competitive Location: Bakkavor Meals London - Elveden site Ways of working - Remote Contract Type: Permanent Shift: Monday - Friday 8.30am-5pm Remote based- Flexibility is required for business needs and requirements, including one week on site for training & induction and Spec team days Benefits include pension, flexible benefits, 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays Why join us? We're proud of what we do, why we do it and who we do it for. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. We're proud of our caring culture, loyal colleagues and future focus. But, most of all, we're proud to enable and empower everyone to believe, achieve and succeed. What we do. This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal - West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories make chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products & savoury accompaniments and employs over 2,000 people. About the role. We are looking to recruit a Specifications Technologist to join our Technical team. Completion of finished product specifications to meet the critical path and/or customer requirements ensuring right first time. Review and completion of finished product artwork checks to ensure the finished product critical path is met. To ensure all retailer online systems are reviewed and the housekeeping of finished product specifications / site details are kept up to date and accurate. To ensure the customer interface internally and externally are managed professionally and in a timely manner and contribute to customer audits and visits leading in areas of expertise. To conduct audits as part of the internal audit team. Administration and inputting of data for customer complaints, KPI reports and analytical data to support the technical systems team when required. Administration and completion of projects to assist in the compliance of the Quality Management System. Administration and completion of the nutritional verification schedule. General office duties, e.g. filing / archiving, laminating of documents. Other duties as required to assist the Technical Services Team appropriate with the level of responsibility. About you Ideally you will have previous experience within a specification's technologist role or similar position. Have experience as a Specifications Technologist or Specification Writing. The role may also be suitable for a Food Science Graduate interested by a career path in Nutrition and Specifications of products. Be a confident and articulate communicator. Have excellent computer skills. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written. The ability to analyse information and accurately record or report in a clear and competent manner. Good IT and problem-solving skills. Ability to manage multiple tasks and deliver to tight deadlines under pressure. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor. We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
QA Auditor We drive our own success. Up to £30,000 per annum (including nightshift allowance) On site staff shop, MyBargains discount platform and more. Bakkavor Meals London - Park Royal (Elveden site) Fully Site based Thursday - Sunday 5pm-3am Permanent role Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing, and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. We believe in fueling ambition and guiding success. In supporting everyone with talent and drive to own what they do, realize their potential, and build a brilliant future for themselves at Bakkavor. What we do. This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal - West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories make chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products & savoury accompaniments and employs over 2,000 people. About the role. To audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams while maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements with guidance from QA Supervisor / Manager. Compliance tasks: Critical Control Points annual validations Allergen validations Packaging intake verification Conducting internal audits Quality Auditors tasks: Monitoring environmental and hygiene practises, including post clean line sign-off, collection of swabs & water samples Quality checks and then collection of finished product and raw materials for microbiological & nutritional testing Conducting various daily audits (including GMP, Glass & Plastics audits, and ensuring corrective action with the shift manager Conducting internal quality assessment panels (QAS) throughout the shift & raising issues with the senior key-op/ shift manager Calibration & Verification of factory equipment Raising & completion of factory non conformances Dealing with shift issues & completion of QA shift report Complaint & Olympus mismatches Investigations About you. Ideally you will have some professional experience within a similar Technical/QA role in a food environment, but skills can be taught and if you have the enthusiasm and drive to develop within quality assurance this is an excellent first role. Understanding the chain of custody within the food environment and a background of working on small to mid-sized quality improvement projects, such as implementing new procedures and defining new supporting documentation - will be key. You will be an excellent communicator who can work alone with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Proud to be Bakkavor. We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
03/09/2025
Full time
QA Auditor We drive our own success. Up to £30,000 per annum (including nightshift allowance) On site staff shop, MyBargains discount platform and more. Bakkavor Meals London - Park Royal (Elveden site) Fully Site based Thursday - Sunday 5pm-3am Permanent role Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing, and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. We believe in fueling ambition and guiding success. In supporting everyone with talent and drive to own what they do, realize their potential, and build a brilliant future for themselves at Bakkavor. What we do. This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal - West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories make chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products & savoury accompaniments and employs over 2,000 people. About the role. To audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams while maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements with guidance from QA Supervisor / Manager. Compliance tasks: Critical Control Points annual validations Allergen validations Packaging intake verification Conducting internal audits Quality Auditors tasks: Monitoring environmental and hygiene practises, including post clean line sign-off, collection of swabs & water samples Quality checks and then collection of finished product and raw materials for microbiological & nutritional testing Conducting various daily audits (including GMP, Glass & Plastics audits, and ensuring corrective action with the shift manager Conducting internal quality assessment panels (QAS) throughout the shift & raising issues with the senior key-op/ shift manager Calibration & Verification of factory equipment Raising & completion of factory non conformances Dealing with shift issues & completion of QA shift report Complaint & Olympus mismatches Investigations About you. Ideally you will have some professional experience within a similar Technical/QA role in a food environment, but skills can be taught and if you have the enthusiasm and drive to develop within quality assurance this is an excellent first role. Understanding the chain of custody within the food environment and a background of working on small to mid-sized quality improvement projects, such as implementing new procedures and defining new supporting documentation - will be key. You will be an excellent communicator who can work alone with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Proud to be Bakkavor. We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Systems Technologist - Bakkavor Barton Bread We rise to challenges together Salary: £29,000- £33,000 depending on experience plus benefits Benefits: MyBargains Discount Platform, A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans), Free Independent Mortgage Advice Location: Bakkavor Barton Bread, Barton-Upon-Humber, DN18 5RT Ways of Working: Site Based Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday 08:30 -17:00 Contract: Permanent Why join us? We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The fast-paced, high-pressure environment of our 24/7 operation keeps us agile and offers a wide range of career opportunities to explore. We encourage everyone to push their limits, work hard, and demonstrate resilience. And it's thrilling. Because by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, we'll continue to diversify, grow as individuals, and succeed together. We're proud to offer you a career with significant potential for development. What we do. We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. This particular role is at our Bakkavor Bread site based in Barton-Upon-Humber, close to the Humber Bridge. This factory specialises in making chilled speciality baguettes at high volumes and employs over 150 people. This site is located 14 miles from Hull, 16 miles from Scunthorpe and 24 miles from Grimsby. About the role. As a Quality Systems Technologist you will provide Technical expertise, to our customers, suppliers and throughout the business, advising of legal, safety and quality standards and providing specialist technical support to all functions. You will support the administrative aspect of the Technical Department taking responsibility for the day-to-day management and maintenance of some or all of the following: QMS, HACCP, Technical Reports, Non Conformance Logs, complaints, microbiological & nutritional surveillance; this work includes data entry, trending, information requests, co-ordination of actions, change management procedure and communicating to relevant parties. Role Accountabilities: Ensuring effective, professional, timely customer communication. Contributing to customer audits and visits. Communicating relevant information into the relevant governance forums Conducting audits as part of the internal QMS. To trend actions and non-conformances and to report into the relevant forums. Working with the Technical management team and communicate outstanding areas & additions to standards to ensure compliance with all current relevant standards, COP and legislation Working with the team to ensure all changes associated with launches, delists and promo activities are implemented without out any disruption to support the operation teams and achieves the correct deadlines Deputising and supporting others in the Technical team in all tasks as required and be flexible to cover different work, also to be involved with projects as requested Operating in a safe working manner and supporting the site on continuous improvements relating to health and safety Controlling and issuing technical documentation to the factory and ensuring it is up to date and displayed correctly About you. You will have good IT skills and knowledge of Microsoft Office. Have good interpersonal skills and able to work within a team as well as on own initiative - have keen eye for detail and able to communicate effectively. Ideally you will have experience in working in a similar role within the food industry as well have experience in internal auditing and have the ability to solve problems/offer solutions, however this is not essential. A Level 2 Food Safety/HACCP would be beneficial but not a necessity. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme MyBargains Discount Platform Personal Accident Insurance Free Independent Mortgage Advice Employee Assistance Programme A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free Carparking Proud to be Bakkavor. We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
03/09/2025
Full time
Systems Technologist - Bakkavor Barton Bread We rise to challenges together Salary: £29,000- £33,000 depending on experience plus benefits Benefits: MyBargains Discount Platform, A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans), Free Independent Mortgage Advice Location: Bakkavor Barton Bread, Barton-Upon-Humber, DN18 5RT Ways of Working: Site Based Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday 08:30 -17:00 Contract: Permanent Why join us? We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The fast-paced, high-pressure environment of our 24/7 operation keeps us agile and offers a wide range of career opportunities to explore. We encourage everyone to push their limits, work hard, and demonstrate resilience. And it's thrilling. Because by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, we'll continue to diversify, grow as individuals, and succeed together. We're proud to offer you a career with significant potential for development. What we do. We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. This particular role is at our Bakkavor Bread site based in Barton-Upon-Humber, close to the Humber Bridge. This factory specialises in making chilled speciality baguettes at high volumes and employs over 150 people. This site is located 14 miles from Hull, 16 miles from Scunthorpe and 24 miles from Grimsby. About the role. As a Quality Systems Technologist you will provide Technical expertise, to our customers, suppliers and throughout the business, advising of legal, safety and quality standards and providing specialist technical support to all functions. You will support the administrative aspect of the Technical Department taking responsibility for the day-to-day management and maintenance of some or all of the following: QMS, HACCP, Technical Reports, Non Conformance Logs, complaints, microbiological & nutritional surveillance; this work includes data entry, trending, information requests, co-ordination of actions, change management procedure and communicating to relevant parties. Role Accountabilities: Ensuring effective, professional, timely customer communication. Contributing to customer audits and visits. Communicating relevant information into the relevant governance forums Conducting audits as part of the internal QMS. To trend actions and non-conformances and to report into the relevant forums. Working with the Technical management team and communicate outstanding areas & additions to standards to ensure compliance with all current relevant standards, COP and legislation Working with the team to ensure all changes associated with launches, delists and promo activities are implemented without out any disruption to support the operation teams and achieves the correct deadlines Deputising and supporting others in the Technical team in all tasks as required and be flexible to cover different work, also to be involved with projects as requested Operating in a safe working manner and supporting the site on continuous improvements relating to health and safety Controlling and issuing technical documentation to the factory and ensuring it is up to date and displayed correctly About you. You will have good IT skills and knowledge of Microsoft Office. Have good interpersonal skills and able to work within a team as well as on own initiative - have keen eye for detail and able to communicate effectively. Ideally you will have experience in working in a similar role within the food industry as well have experience in internal auditing and have the ability to solve problems/offer solutions, however this is not essential. A Level 2 Food Safety/HACCP would be beneficial but not a necessity. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme MyBargains Discount Platform Personal Accident Insurance Free Independent Mortgage Advice Employee Assistance Programme A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free Carparking Proud to be Bakkavor. We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Quality Auditor We're proud to be Bakkavor Salary: Competitive depending on experience Benefits: Flexible Benefits Package, Life Assurance, Pension Location: Bakkavor Pizza Harrow Ways of Working: Site based Hours of work: Sunday -Thursday 22:00pm- 7:00am Contract Type: Permanent Why join us? We're proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. About the role. Our Bakkavor Pizza site based in based in Harrow makes hand crafted, wood fired - specialty pizzas for customers such as Waitrose, Tesco, M&S, Sainsburys, Pizza Express range, co-op and Booths. Working as part of a wider team of QA Auditors and reporting directly in to our Quality Assurance Supervisors, you will play a key role in ensuring that our site continues to meet all quality and technical standards set nationally and by our grocery retailer partners. As one of our QA Auditors, you will audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams as well as maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements will be a key focus. In this position you will work on a permanent day shift which will include some weekend working as set by the rota. As well as welcoming applications from candidates from a quality or technical background, we would also like to encourage applications from candidates who have operational or line experience within food production/manufacturing who wish to develop their career. If you have excellent attention to detail, are process driven and can use your initiative to prioritise your workload and problem solve we would like to hear from you. Full training on internal quality processes is provided to the successful candidate. Role Accountabilities: To audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence. Effectively communicating to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action - then following up and monitoring completion of actions. Understanding the site traceability system to complete audits to demonstrate compliance and retrieve information for investigation purposes. Take samples (micro, nutritional, swab and organoleptic) against specific schedules and communicate the progress in a timely manner. Prepare and facilitate taste panels in accordance with procedure - ensuring that all results are accurately recorded and communicated to site. Calibration of measurement equipment in accordance with schedules and procedures. Assist the QA Supervisor in carrying out full investigations on specifications (micro and nutritional), complaints and incidents. Support NPD trials and product launches, assisting in micro testing and product life assessment to ensure products are manufactured to the correct standard as necessary. Providing technical support and advice to the factory team in the event of customer visit or audit. Coordination of day to day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs. Operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety, and the environment. About You. Ideally you will have some professional experience within a similar Technical/QA role in a food environment but skills can be taught and if you have the enthusiasm and drive to develop within quality assurance this is an excellent first role. Understanding the chain of custody within the food environment and a background of working on small to mid-sized quality improvement projects, such as implementing new procedures and defining new supporting documentation - will be key. You will be an excellent communicator who can work alone with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving. You will always adopt a thorough and diligent approach to every task and you will be able to demonstrate our key values of customer care, can-do, teamwork and not just getting it right but keeping it right. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 33 days holiday Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply
02/09/2025
Full time
Quality Auditor We're proud to be Bakkavor Salary: Competitive depending on experience Benefits: Flexible Benefits Package, Life Assurance, Pension Location: Bakkavor Pizza Harrow Ways of Working: Site based Hours of work: Sunday -Thursday 22:00pm- 7:00am Contract Type: Permanent Why join us? We're proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. About the role. Our Bakkavor Pizza site based in based in Harrow makes hand crafted, wood fired - specialty pizzas for customers such as Waitrose, Tesco, M&S, Sainsburys, Pizza Express range, co-op and Booths. Working as part of a wider team of QA Auditors and reporting directly in to our Quality Assurance Supervisors, you will play a key role in ensuring that our site continues to meet all quality and technical standards set nationally and by our grocery retailer partners. As one of our QA Auditors, you will audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams as well as maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements will be a key focus. In this position you will work on a permanent day shift which will include some weekend working as set by the rota. As well as welcoming applications from candidates from a quality or technical background, we would also like to encourage applications from candidates who have operational or line experience within food production/manufacturing who wish to develop their career. If you have excellent attention to detail, are process driven and can use your initiative to prioritise your workload and problem solve we would like to hear from you. Full training on internal quality processes is provided to the successful candidate. Role Accountabilities: To audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence. Effectively communicating to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action - then following up and monitoring completion of actions. Understanding the site traceability system to complete audits to demonstrate compliance and retrieve information for investigation purposes. Take samples (micro, nutritional, swab and organoleptic) against specific schedules and communicate the progress in a timely manner. Prepare and facilitate taste panels in accordance with procedure - ensuring that all results are accurately recorded and communicated to site. Calibration of measurement equipment in accordance with schedules and procedures. Assist the QA Supervisor in carrying out full investigations on specifications (micro and nutritional), complaints and incidents. Support NPD trials and product launches, assisting in micro testing and product life assessment to ensure products are manufactured to the correct standard as necessary. Providing technical support and advice to the factory team in the event of customer visit or audit. Coordination of day to day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs. Operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety, and the environment. About You. Ideally you will have some professional experience within a similar Technical/QA role in a food environment but skills can be taught and if you have the enthusiasm and drive to develop within quality assurance this is an excellent first role. Understanding the chain of custody within the food environment and a background of working on small to mid-sized quality improvement projects, such as implementing new procedures and defining new supporting documentation - will be key. You will be an excellent communicator who can work alone with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving. You will always adopt a thorough and diligent approach to every task and you will be able to demonstrate our key values of customer care, can-do, teamwork and not just getting it right but keeping it right. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 33 days holiday Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply
Quality Auditor We're proud to be Bakkavor Up to £29,954 depending on the experience plus a generous shift allowance. Life Assurance (1 x salary), A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans), Free independent mortgage advice Old Leake Boston (PE22 9PN) Site based 3's and 2's / 18:00 - 06:00 Permanent Why join us? We're proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. About the role. Our Boston site employs around 690 people and specialises in making chilled Italian ready meals and modern deli products for a dedicated customer. Working as part of a wider team of QA Auditors and reporting directly in to our Quality Assurance Supervisors, you will play a key role in ensuring that our site continues to meet all quality and technical standards set nationally and by our grocery retailer partners. As one of our QA Auditors, you will audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams as well as maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements will be a key focus. In this position you will work on a permanent night shift which will include some weekend working as set by the rota. As well as welcoming applications from candidates from a quality or technical background, we would also like to encourage applications from candidates who have operational or line experience within food production/manufacturing who wish to develop their career. If you have excellent attention to detail, are process driven and can use your initiative to prioritise your workload and problem solve we would like to hear from you. Full training on internal quality processes is provided to the successful candidate. Role Accountabilities: To audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence. Effectively communicating to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action - then following up and monitoring completion of actions. Understanding the site traceability system to complete audits to demonstrate compliance and retrieve information for investigation purposes. Take samples (micro, nutritional, swab and organoleptic) against specific schedules and communicate the progress in a timely manner. Prepare and facilitate taste panels in accordance with procedure - ensuring that all results are accurately recorded and communicated to site. Calibration of measurement equipment in accordance with schedules and procedures. Assist the QA Supervisor in carrying out full investigations on specifications (micro and nutritional), complaints and incidents. Support NPD trials and product launches, assisting in micro testing and product life assessment to ensure products are manufactured to the correct standard as necessary. Providing technical support and advice to the factory team in the event of customer visit or audit. Coordination of day-to-day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs. Operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety, and the environment. About You. Ideally you will have some professional experience within a similar Technical/QA role in a food environment, but skills can be taught and if you have the enthusiasm and drive to develop within quality assurance this is an excellent first role. Understanding the chain of custody within the food environment and a background of working on small to mid-sized quality improvement projects, such as implementing new procedures and defining new supporting documentation - will be key. You will be an excellent communicator who can work alone with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving. You will always adopt a thorough and diligent approach to every task and you will be able to demonstrate our key values of customer care, can-do, teamwork and not just getting it right but keeping it right. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply
01/09/2025
Full time
Quality Auditor We're proud to be Bakkavor Up to £29,954 depending on the experience plus a generous shift allowance. Life Assurance (1 x salary), A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans), Free independent mortgage advice Old Leake Boston (PE22 9PN) Site based 3's and 2's / 18:00 - 06:00 Permanent Why join us? We're proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. About the role. Our Boston site employs around 690 people and specialises in making chilled Italian ready meals and modern deli products for a dedicated customer. Working as part of a wider team of QA Auditors and reporting directly in to our Quality Assurance Supervisors, you will play a key role in ensuring that our site continues to meet all quality and technical standards set nationally and by our grocery retailer partners. As one of our QA Auditors, you will audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams as well as maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements will be a key focus. In this position you will work on a permanent night shift which will include some weekend working as set by the rota. As well as welcoming applications from candidates from a quality or technical background, we would also like to encourage applications from candidates who have operational or line experience within food production/manufacturing who wish to develop their career. If you have excellent attention to detail, are process driven and can use your initiative to prioritise your workload and problem solve we would like to hear from you. Full training on internal quality processes is provided to the successful candidate. Role Accountabilities: To audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence. Effectively communicating to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action - then following up and monitoring completion of actions. Understanding the site traceability system to complete audits to demonstrate compliance and retrieve information for investigation purposes. Take samples (micro, nutritional, swab and organoleptic) against specific schedules and communicate the progress in a timely manner. Prepare and facilitate taste panels in accordance with procedure - ensuring that all results are accurately recorded and communicated to site. Calibration of measurement equipment in accordance with schedules and procedures. Assist the QA Supervisor in carrying out full investigations on specifications (micro and nutritional), complaints and incidents. Support NPD trials and product launches, assisting in micro testing and product life assessment to ensure products are manufactured to the correct standard as necessary. Providing technical support and advice to the factory team in the event of customer visit or audit. Coordination of day-to-day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs. Operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety, and the environment. About You. Ideally you will have some professional experience within a similar Technical/QA role in a food environment, but skills can be taught and if you have the enthusiasm and drive to develop within quality assurance this is an excellent first role. Understanding the chain of custody within the food environment and a background of working on small to mid-sized quality improvement projects, such as implementing new procedures and defining new supporting documentation - will be key. You will be an excellent communicator who can work alone with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving. You will always adopt a thorough and diligent approach to every task and you will be able to demonstrate our key values of customer care, can-do, teamwork and not just getting it right but keeping it right. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply
Jobs - Frequently Asked Questions
Use the location filter to find IT jobs in cities like London, Manchester, Birmingham, and across the UK.
Entry-level roles include IT support technician, junior developer, QA tester, and helpdesk analyst.
New jobs are posted daily. Set up alerts to be notified as soon as new roles match your preferences.
Key skills include problem-solving, coding, cloud computing, networking, and familiarity with tools like AWS or SQL.
Yes, many employers offer training or junior roles. Focus on building a strong CV with relevant coursework or personal projects.
