Student Placement - Histon, United Kingdom - Hain Daniels Group

Hain Daniels Group

Verified Company

Histon, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Role
Hain Daniels are currently recruiting for a Student NPD Technologist for Histon. In Histon, we manufacture a host of ambient sweetspreads and jellies for our grocery brands. These includes Hartley'sjams and jellies, Gale's honey, Rose's and Robertsons marmalade's.

A member of the NPD team working to support the delivery of Hain Daniels Grocery Targets.

To ensure that the effectiveness of factory processes are in line with the needs of the business and to continually meet, improve and exceed customer expectations.

To develop and deliver 'best in class' commercially viable new or improved products from product briefs to launch, ensuring that the Hain Daniels Group Stage & Gate Launch Procedure is followed.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop recipes in response to product briefs, creating and preparing test samples in the kitchen and pilot plant to key critical path dates under the direction of Senior NPD Technologists and NPD Managers
Send recipes to Finance for costing and develop to target raw material costs
Drive initiatives for improving product quality and innovation, supporting new ingredients and identifying recipe developments to challenge competitor products
Liaise with colleagues across site regarding relevant product development and product improvement activities

\What you will need for the role / what it will take:

Degree in Food Science or Food technology or working towards it
Full driving licence

What can we offer you?

Competitive salary
25 days annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holiday days
Option to purchase additional annual leave
A day off work to support our charity partners
Flexible working options
Pension
Medical benefit
And access to a HUB that offers many discounts from a range of suppliers and retailers

About Us
The Hain Daniels Group is one of the UK's leading food companies. We create food and drink products with natural goodness at their core.

We're the business behind a host of household brands - Hartley's jams and jellies, Sun-Pat peanut butters, New Covent Garden Soup Co., Linda McCartney's meat free food, and Yorkshire Provender to name a few.

Nearly half of our business is private label - we create quality freshly prepared desserts, soups, sweet spreads and meat free products for our retail partners.

Our Vision
To make it easier for everyone to lead a healthier, balanced lifestyle. Without our great team of people, this vision couldn't be our reality.

Top Talent across the UK

Over our 6 sites up and down the UK, we employ circa 1,300 people in roles within Production, Supply Chain, Product Development, Sales and Marketing, and through to our Finance, HR, IT and beyond.

Each of our colleagues is vital to our continued success. That's why we target the best talent, and help to develop them through the ranks. In fact, almost a third of our vacancies were internal promotions and transfers last year.

Our Business behaviours

As a business we strive to promote from within and our underlying business behaviours really enable us to drive this strategic objective.

We believe we can provide an opportunity for all individuals to grow and achieve with Hain Daniels through demonstrating core behaviours such as ambition & energy, collaborative working, honest communication, innovation, delivering excellent quality, embracing versatility and equality

**If Hain Daniels sounds like the company you'd like to contribute your energy and enthusiasm towards, and come on an exciting journey with us, then we can't wait to hear from you