Based at Walkers Deli & Sausage (LE1) Monday - Friday - 8.30am - 5.00pm

Join the Samworth Brothers Family!

Working for Walkers Deli and Sausage, part of the Samworth Brothers Group, a 4^th generation family business, we offer competitive benefits to all our colleagues including:

• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• Private Health Scheme
• Employee Discount Scheme
• Annual Pay Review and Profit related pay
• Training and Progression opportunities

The Opportunity

We have the opportunity for you to join our team as a Food Safety Technologist, reporting directly to the Food Safety Co-Ordinator, will have responsibility conducting the factory validations for:

• The HACCP, TACCP plans and associated meetings
• The site Allergen Cleaning Validation
• Species validation
• Cooking validation
• Cooling validation
• Suitable for Vegetarians Validation
• Other claims validation

Some of what you can expect to be doing includes:

• Understand the processes required to safely deliver new Suppliers and Raw materials into the business.
• Influencing peers and seniors in order to achieve a mutually beneficial outcome in all situations whilst considering food safety at all times
• Maintain and improve the current site systems, keeping abreast of best practice and managing system changes
• Understanding of all aspects of Food Safety Systems Management
• You will also gain an understanding of Technical Administration, the systems required to manage the trending and reporting of Customer KPI’s and the management of Consumer complaints.

The Right Person

We are one big team and we look for people to join our business who want to work with others but take responsibility for doing their best every day to help to make the business a success.

• Would suit someone with previous QA experience
• Food Science/Technology/Science based subject qualifications desirable
• Professional qualifications would also be beneficial
• Extensive technical experience in a food manufacturing business
• Ideally experience of high / low risk production (Ideally chilled /meat products)
• Drive and energy to make things happen, to deliver results on time and with control of cost / effective management of KPI’s

The Company

Walkers Deli & Sausage specialises in the manufacturing of Premium Sliced Cooked Meats and Sausages as well as being the largest producer of Pate in the UK. At Walkers Deli and Sausage we are constantly striving for ways to improve. This passion for innovation is evident in all that we do.

We take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.  

Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative