Technologist

Technologist

Salary: Competitive salary

Benefits: Company share save scheme, Competitive matched pension contribution, Life insurance up to 4x salary

Location: Greencore London Meals Cumberland, Cumberland Avenue, Park Royal, London, NW10 7RQ

Ways of Working: Site based

Hours of work: 08:30am-17:00pm Monday to Friday

Contract Type: Permanent

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Our site in Park Royal, West London, spans three factories and a distribution centre. The site produces a wide range of chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products, and savoury accompaniments, employing over 2,000 people in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

What you'll be doing

We're looking for a proactive, hands-on technical professional to help drive food safety, quality, and compliance across the site. You'll support key technical systems, play an active role in audits and NPD activity, and work closely with teams to deliver high standards in a fast-paced environment. This is a great opportunity to make an impact, support continuous improvement, and grow within a collaborative technical team.

Role Accountabilities:
To support & develop the technical systems to meet business, customer, industry standards, taking responsibility of the day-to-day management and maintenance of some or all the following: allergen management procedures, allergen risk assessments, QMS, HACCP, process validations, technical reports, and nutritional surveillance.
To ensure effective, professional, timely communication. Contribute to customer audits and visits, supporting in areas of expertise.
To conduct audits as part of the internal QMS. To trend actions and non-conformances and to report into the relevant forums.
Work with the team to ensure all changes associated with launches, delists, and promo activities are implemented to support the operation teams and achieves the correct deadlines.
To support others in the technical team in all tasks as required and be flexible to cover different work, also be involved in projects as requested.
To operate in a safe working manner and support the site on continuous improvements relating to health and safety. What we're looking for
Previous demonstrable experience in a chilled food manufacturing environment in at least one of the following disciplines: Technical; Development; or graduated in related discipline
Good organisational skills with the ability to multi-task and manage own
time/workload
Strong understanding of HACCP within food industry and fundamental steps of risk management
Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Word
Is aware of the business issues; trials; development concepts and customer expectations
A pragmatic in approach to problem solving and is agile in finding solutions
Vigilant with good attention to detail and spots opportunities for improvement
A self-starter who is inquisitive and driven to improve We're proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you'll get in return
Competitive salary and job-related benefits
Holidays
Competitive matched pension contribution
Life insurance up to 4x salary
Company share save scheme
Greencore Qualifications
Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.

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