Technologist- Packaging

£24,500-£27,000 dependent on experience

+ Employee benefits

Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire

Analytical Services

We offer commercial analytical lab chemistry testing for food and drink, including: nutritional and health, microscopy, biochemistry, allergens, chromatography, packaging, cereals and ingredients, and wines and spirits

Packaging Team

Campden BRI support food & drink manufacturers by rigurously testing their packaging to ensure the product quality, safety and maintenance Not only must packaging retain its strength and integrity and have the correct physicochemical characteristics to protect and preserve products as they move through the supply chain, but in doing so it must also not adversely affect the product by interacting and causing taints or loss of quality.

Campden BRI has range of packaging analysis an testing facilities and can conduct a broad range of packaging investigations including microscopic and chemical testing. We ask is the packaging fit for purpose? Different types of packaging are used for different reasons.

Position

Technical delivery as guided by your line manager or others within the team, ability to plan and manage your own time to meet deadlines.
Interpretation of results and preparation of client reports under supervision to agreed standards.
Providing support to practical delivery on training courses.
Responding to direct technical enquiries with support from your line manager using information retrieved from relevant sources.
Preparing simple project quotations for clients with support from the line manager.
Maintenance of packaging analytical equipment, care of packaging pilot plant and maintenance of records for business management system purposes.
Assist with hygiene/good housekeeping activities.

Requirements

A graduate or equivalent qualification in a packaging/food technology/science related discipline or equivalent experience in a similar environment.
A technical knowledge of food packaging across multiple food sectors and multiple packaging formats is desirable (e.g. plastic, metal, paperboard and glass). Knowledge on polymer science would be an advantage.
Good verbal and communication skills since this is a client facing role.
Effective time management skills relating to effective delivery and business practices.

Benefits

Reward platform with employee discounts and rewards
25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
Buy and sell holiday scheme
A generous work save pension scheme, with employee contributions matched by the company up to 10%
Culture focus around work/life balance (early finish Fridays)
Subsidised onsite restaurant

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