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Castle Employment are recruiting a Process Technician to join a market leading frozen foods producer based in North Yorkshire. This is a newly created role due to business expansion and suitable candidates will ideally have worked in either an NPD or Process role previously.

The successful Process Technician will be responsible for:

• Assisting in the Product Development process, by way of undertaking duties associated with product trials and product evaluation – in-line with company and Customer requirements. To support site process and product improvements.
• Key duties to include:
• Undertake trials in-line with company and Customer requirements.
• Document all data from trials inc. shelf-life, organs etc, comprehensively and legibly for future review in order to establish process capabilities and support due diligence.
• Co-ordinate project critical paths and ensure projects remain on track.
• Secure and submit appropriate samples as requested by Customer as well as those for analysis e.g. Microbiological, Nutritional, for organoleptic evaluation and for transit trials.
• Working with NPD, Technical and Production to establish appropriate quality attributes for raw material, work in progress material and finished product taking into account operational capabilities.
• Co-ordinate Pre-Production and Launch preparation.
• Support the Technical team with artwork checks and specification generation as required
• Contribute to post launch evaluation of process in conjunction with NPD and Technical to ensure process established at launch is still valid for full scale production and implement improvements as necessary

To be successful in your application you will have previous experience of working within an NPD or Process role. You will have excellent organisational and communication skills and you will be able to multi-task when needed.  You will be passionate and energetic and have a 'can-do' approach to your work and be highly motivated.