Technologist - Spalding, United Kingdom - westfalia fruit
Description
Come and join the leading #avoexperts
Westfalia Fruit is a leading multinational supplier of fresh fruit and related value added products to global markets.
Through our vertically-integrated supply chain we grow, source, ripen, pack, process and market quality avocadoes & fresh produce - 365 days a year & across the globe.
With the largest avocado-growing footprint in the world, we are recognised as the leading
#avoexperts, and considered as the supplier of choice to both retail & wholesale customers whom we serve from sales offices in the UK, Europe, North America, Latin America & Southern Africa.
We're looking for a Technologist to join our team in Spalding.
Our Technologist ensure that Westfalia Fruit can demonstrate proactive compliance with our customer requirements for product safety, quality, authenticity and legality.
You will work closely with the Technical Managers and other internal teams to ensure customer specific and internal department KPI's are met in full.
Scope:
Westfalia Fruit's non-retail customers & retail customers
Responsibilities include:
- Maintaining Westfalia Fruit's supplier risk assessments
- Manage a sampling and analysis programme - Pesticide, Microbiology and authenticity
- Ensuring all customers have their due diligence demands met
- Agricultural systems
- Global Gap, F2F, TN, LEAF, Organic
- Packhouse
- BRC & equivalent where necessary
- Due diligence will include
- Warranty statements, pre
- Ensuring suppliers are kept up to date with legislation and MRL changes and customer requirements
- Review grower spray programmes against retailer and banned/restricted lists and assist growers in identifying alternative / softer programs.
- Ensure all suppliers have appropriate SEDEX registrations.
- Complete internal audits as per the internal audit schedule
- Partake in 3rd party site audits including customer, BRC and Organic.
- Overseas visits including supplier auditing and supplier development
Experience we look for:
- Fluent in Spanish (Desired)
- Open to UK and global travel dependant on business needs
- Understanding of the importance of product testing pesticide, microbiology and authenticity
- Retailer and industry software systems experience
- Internal auditor trained
What can Westfalia Fruit offer you?
- Hybrid working (1 day per week WFH)
- 20 days holiday, plus bank holidays, with an additional day for each year of service up to 25 days.
- Free onsite parking
- Free Tea & Coffee
- Company pension plan
- Medicash cash plan
- Christmas hampers
- We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status._
Salary:
£27,000.00-£30,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Onsite parking
- Work from home
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Spalding: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location:
Hybrid remote in Spalding
Reference ID:
Technologist - Spalding
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