380 Food Science jobs in the United Kingdom

Company Profile:   

A UK flexible packaging manufacturer who supplies packaging for household names, including products for all the main supermarket chains. They are now looking to recruit a Head of food Science and Technical

Title: Head of food Science and Technical

Salary: TBC

Purpose of job:

To provide site based technical leadership across the technical department and Food science laboratory.

This role will report directly to the Technical Director to lend support and ensure development of added value products via technical application and/or food science technology. This role will ensure that both departments under their leadership are aligned with the company strategy, lending technical support to site / other departments with a focus on continuous improvement, product development & enhancement, leading to increased productivity, sales growth, cost down initiatives and product development.

Key Accountabilities:

This role requires a strategic and hands-on approach which is vital to growth and improved profitability within the organization.

Direct Responsibility for the management, personal development, and leadership of the sites

Technical and food science departments.

Develop strong effective working relationships within the management team to ensure business/site objectives are being met by your departments.

Further develop existing team members to become a highly performing, multi-skilled team who can proactively support the company to achieve their objectives and meet our Horizon 2025 targets.

Work directly with the Technical Director to ensure all projects, actions, and tasks, including testing and developments trials, are progressing efficiently through the company.

Ensure all TRD/TRL trials are supported Technically, with reports produced to capture results/actions.

Become the first escalation point there for any site based technical queries or actions.

Ensure that all products bought, manufactured, and sold within the company are compliant with current EU and UK Food Contact & Food Safety legislation.

Conduct regular meetings with the team to ensure they are working against the latest compliance guidance.

Each year helps to build a RDEC TAX claim against any trials and developments across your departments.

Work closely with northwest Technical Manager to ensure both sites are aligned technically on both film development and site capabilities.

Interact with” external” technical team to monitor, support and drive all their projects and trials through the company, to minimize delays.

Monitor and ensure all monthly site-based reporting is submitted on time and in full.

Attend / support required meetings. Technical, Sales, Monthly Management meetings and Steer Co.

Proactively drive projects and trials through your team to ensure they receive the necessary focus, ensuring they achieve the results against set timelines.

Provide Technical support and leadership across other site-based departments when required, such as Procurement, Operations, QA, etc.

Produce a Monthly report for the technical director (based on Team reports into you) to update activity and progression within your team, this report will also be used to update site.

Ensure your teams project trackers, EQMS and monthly updates are kept up to date and capture all relevant information and data.

Support site with the creation of “right first time” packaging solutions to meet our customer / site requirements.

Drive a culture of safety and compliance across both Departments.

Interact with Field Tech services in regard to offering customer trial support or complaint investigation.

Assist QA with Technical based issues or customer complaints.

Conduct customer visits if requested to lend technical support.

Perform other duties not written above as prescribed by the Technical Director

Skills & Competences:

Must have 5 Years + of experience of managing a team or department of people.

Have excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills.

Must have experience of Project management and development process.

Ideally a degree qualified in either management, Chemistry or a Science based discipline.

Able to create management reports and presentations that will update, track and inform.

Must be Computer literate and familiar with all major software programs.

Have a car license as some travelling across the company or customer sites may be required.

Experience gained within Packaging, Print and Conversion would be advantageous.

Personal attributes:

Self-motivated, high energy and have an air of Gravitas.

Be Flexible and adaptable and able to work in a fast-moving dynamic environment.

Have excellent problem solving and decision-making skills.

Ability to prioritise and manage timelines.

Ability to communicate across all different levels of people.

Able to work independently or as part of a wider team

Experience And Additional Requirements:

In addition, you should be able to demonstrate the following behaviours and skills: -

Customer-centric, easy to work with and flexible

Sharing information with all relevant parties (internal & external) to improve ways of working to deliver customer satisfaction.

Demonstrates a collective use of all communications tools/business systems to ensure that the tools in place are being utilised to benefit the business/customer.

Understands the market they trade in and the arena in which they compete to ensure that they retain a USP.

Takes an objective view on internal/external situations and looks for ways to improve the service.

Intensity & Speed

Commercially aware of how the role influences the commercial performance of the business.

Organises workload to ensure that they operate in the most efficient way.

Ability to meet deadlines under pressure whilst ensuring that they strive for efficiency.

Ability to follow systems and processes to deliver an efficient end result.

Proactively looks for better ways of doing things.

Empowerment & Accountability

Willingness to adapt to business requirements and takes the time to understand business change.

Expresses spoken and written ideas effectively in individual and group situations.

Proactive approach and not afraid to make decisions.

Ability to focus on and achieve personal and team objectives.

Contributes to the overall purpose of the team and take the times to understand the objectives

Demonstrate a good understanding of business purpose and direction.

Contributes ideas to develop and enhance the offer.

Not afraid to share knowledge to improve ways of working for all.

Relishes the challenge of change and encourages others to do the same and explains the benefits of change convincingly to their team, identifies any barriers to change and how to overcome them.

Demonstrates commitment and a passion to succeed

Passionate and enthusiastic commitment to shared goals and objectives.

Dedication and determination to the success of the team, business, and client

Commitment to training and development and making the team the team the best they can be.

Demonstrates has listened through their actions which are visible and understood by others.

Integrity & fairness always

Trust, appreciation, and respect of, and for, team members

Also ensuring and promoting equality and fairness, following the company policies regarding Dignity at Work.

Supporting an open and honest environment for discussion and feedback

Understands your and other role(s) within the team and company.

Contributes positively to team identity.

Builds and maintains team spirit and morale to ensure effective working relationships.

Encourages the mantra and treats people as they would want to be treated.

Safe Environment for everyone

Supports a safe working environment.

Encourages a greater awareness of safety by ensuring team are trained on safety.

Actively encourages team members to engage with other departments to assess safety through risk assessment and Area Safety Inspections

Balances the workload to ensure that specific areas of workload are addressed.

Additional benefits:

Pension: 6% EE, 3% ER

Annual Leave: 25 days, plus bank holidays (increasing by 1 day each January to a maximum of 28 days plus bank holidays)

Medicash scheme –our employees are covered for contributions towards, dental treatment, both accidental and routine, specialist diagnostic tests and scans, and even complimentary therapies. For a small monthly fee, you can also add your partner and children to the scheme.

Salary sacrifice Pension – Access to Salary sacrifice pension scheme or as above. Members of the pension scheme are also provided with the details of an independent financial advisor upon commencement of their employment should they wish to contact them at any time, in addition the independent financial advisors come to the site a few times a year to provide face to face advice for individuals.

Company sick pay scheme – Dependent on successful probation

Enhanced Maternity / Paternity pay – dependent on length of service

EAP Scheme – 24 / 7 counselling and advice on issues such as Financial, relationship issues, health issues etc.

Benefits Hub – employees have exclusive access to Benefit Hub’s discount marketplace which includes discount codes, cashback, money off and more.

Free parking onsite

Are you ready to play a key role in shaping innovative engineering solutions?

We are recruiting for a Product Engineer to join a well-established and very successful manufacturing business in Ayrshire. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to an organisation that is investing heavily in new technology, facilities and people.

What you'll be doing:

• All aspects of Product Engineering including design, tests, writing specifications and prototyping.
• Carry out tests and trials, working closely with other engineering teams and departments in the company.
• Involved in the design and development of high performing products.
• Support the manufacturing team by investigating and resolving performance issues.
• Continually strive to improve processes and product performance.

What we're looking for:

• A degree in Engineering or a related subject (Any discipline - mechanical, electrical, chemical, process, etc.)
• Diverse engineering skill set.
• Excellent communication and teamworking skills
• Strong IT skills

Why apply?

This is an exciting time to join a company with significant long-term investment and a strong pipeline of projects. You'll be part of a forward-looking organisation that values its people and provides clear opportunities for growth.

Are you ready to play a key role in shaping innovative engineering solutions?

We are recruiting for a Product Engineer to join a well-established and very successful manufacturing business in Ayrshire. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to an organisation that is investing heavily in new technology, facilities and people.

What you'll be doing:

• All aspects of Product Engineering including design, tests, writing specifications and prototyping.
• Carry out tests and trials, working closely with other engineering teams and departments in the company.
• Involved in the design and development of high performing products.
• Support the manufacturing team by investigating and resolving performance issues.
• Continually strive to improve processes and product performance.

What we're looking for:

• A degree in Engineering or a related subject (Any discipline - mechanical, electrical, chemical, process, etc.)
• Diverse engineering skill set.
• Excellent communication and teamworking skills
• Strong IT skills

Why apply?

This is an exciting time to join a company with significant long-term investment and a strong pipeline of projects. You'll be part of a forward-looking organisation that values its people and provides clear opportunities for growth.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

LEEDS

PERMANENT

Our client, a engineering business with a global footprint, have a exciting new position for a Development Engineer to join their team.

As the Product Development Engineer, you will be expected to work as part of a team to solve complex fluid power related problems, there will be an emphasis on new product development, but also to develop and enhance existing products.In this role, the ideal candidate will be able to collaborate and work as part of an engineering team, youwill also spend a portion of yourtime in a hands on production environment. The ideal product development engineer will also be working with external customers which may sometimes require travel to their location.

Experience in high pressure hydraulic piston pump or valve experience is a must, and you must have proven experience in thisfield.

Product Design and Development

• Design and development of hydraulic components and systems
• Create detailed 3D models and 2D drawings using advanced CAD software
• Utilize simulation software such as CFD and FEA
• Design systems that optimize energy consumption and performance
• Work with remote monitoring and associated sensors and hardware
• Understand fluid power application requirements in various markets.
• Assist production in analysing failures to determine root cause and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Develop test procedures and conduct prototype validation testing.
• Work with manufacturing partners and vendors to develop and update production processes and specifications to ensure quality and performance of components.

Candidate

As the ideal product development engineer, your role will be primarily office based (no remote working), you will need to visit/work on the shop floor from time to time, so there is a degree of physical work involved.

You will ideally be degree educated in mechanical engineering, or related, have experience in fluid design or working within fluid power industry, with high pressure hydraulic piston pump or valve experienceand a track record in successful engineering projects.

With all this experience it will be a given that you have the technical and soft skills to be a success in the role.

This is a permanent role where you will be expected to work regular office hours with a lunchtime finish on a Friday ( 36 hours ).

Package

The right product development engineer will be rewarded, the salary will be market leading, as will the benefits package and you will have free parking within walking distance of Leeds centre !

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a forward thinking company that looks after its employees and values their input into the future success of the business.

This vacancy is being advertised by AMF Recruitment Ltd, a specialist recruitment business supporting the Manufacturing Industry.

Product Development Engineer
Hailsham, East Sussex
Full Time | Permanent
Competitive salary, dependent on experience
37 hours per week, Monday–Friday
  
Are you an experienced Product Development Engineer looking to take ownership of a product range with real impact? This role offers the chance to lead innovation, quality, and cost optimisation across a core suite of mechanical products, supporting leading-edge scientific and high-precision engineering sectors.
  
As a Product Development Engineer, you’ll manage one of our key product ranges from concept to improvement—driving innovation, delivering improvements, reducing cost, and enhancing quality. You’ll work across NPI, value engineering, supplier liaison, and product lifecycle management, balancing hands-on mechanical knowledge with strong technical documentation and problem-solving skills.
  
 
Key Responsibilities

• Lead product innovation, cost optimisation, and lifecycle support for an assigned product range
li>Reverse-engineer and benchmark competitor products to improve competitive position
• Manage NPI feasibility studies, development timelines, and stakeholder updates
• Create CAD BOMs, engineering packs, and support prototype build and test
• Identify and implement quality improvements and lead 8D root cause analysis
• Provide technical support for production, procurement, and customer quotations
• Support engineering changes and ensure up-to-date BOMs and documentation
• Apply value engineering strategies and assist with make/buy analysis
• Ensure compliance with DFM and BS 888 standards

  
Requirements Essential:

< i>HNC/D in Mechanical and Production Engineering
• Proven background in component and assembly-level product engineering
• CAD skills (preferably PTC Creo 5 or above)
• Hands-on and practical approach to design and prototyping
• Knowledge of DFM principles and technical documentation
• Microsoft Office and 3D CAD proficiency
• Root Cause Analysis / 8D investigation experience

Desirable:

• Mechanical Engineering degree
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics
• Practical machining or mechanical build background (milling, turning, assembly)

 
TPA are a specialist recruitment agency recruiting on behalf of our client.
If you think you are a close fit for this position, please do apply and we will also register you for any upcoming positions that may be suitable. You must have the Right to work in the UK.

Product Development Engineer
£38.25ph umbrella (Inside IR35)
12 Months
Purpose of the role
You will provide engineering support to the Artillery team to ensure the delivery of projects within the team. Working with the Portfolio Manager and reporting to the Senior Product Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring that the programmes/projects include appropriate engineering development activity to achieve a robust solution. The activities will be planned with robust estimates for completion with sound risk mitigation built in. The position will be primarily based at the BAE Systems Land UK site in Glascoed, Monmouthshire on a four-day working pattern within a hybrid-working environment, occasional travel to other customer, manufacturing and test and evaluation sites will be necessary.
Core Duties
Typical Duties include:
• Supporting the product design and systems engineering activities for new and legacy products
• Generating Safety Case Paperwork and Technical documentation relating to the service use of products
• Conducting and managing product and process design, development, test, manufacture and evaluation activities. Ensuring that safety remains the highest priority in the working practices of yourself and the team
• Conducting and managing trials in a safe and suitable manner, from planning through to trials execution to reporting and presenting conclusions
• Application of effective Engineering Governance throughout the product development lifecycle supporting design reviews from concept to disposal
• Configuration and maintenance of Engineering Bills of Materials for products
• Product design and evaluation / down selection e.g. Pugh Matrices, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA)
• Support the generation of costed proposals for external customers


Safety:
? The role holder is responsible for taking reasonable care of their own health and safety ensuring high standards for safety, health and environment (SHE) in our organisation are maintained. This includes co-operating and following all reasonable instruction, information and training reporting work-related hazards or incidents and using all equipment for the purpose intended. More detailed responsibilities are captured within the Company Health & Safety Policy (759/OF/016) and the Company Environmental Policy (759/OF/029).
? The role holder is responsible for taking reasonable care of their own health and safety, ensuring high standards for safety, health and environment (SHE) in our organisation are maintained, understood, implemented and followed by their team. This includes co-operating and following all reasonable instruction, information and training reporting work-related hazards or incidents, using all equipment for the purpose intended, setting high standards for SHE, leading by example and establishing the expectation that others do the same promoting risk awareness, ensuring that risks are assessed and adequately controlled, encouraging the team to report incidents and defects and make suggestions to improve SHE standards and ensuring actions to address SHE issues are prioritised and resourced appropriately. More detailed responsibilities are captured within the Company Health & Safety Policy (759/OF/016) and the Company Environmental Policy (759/OF/029).
Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications
Strong technical writing skills: reports, specifications and technical documentation
• Experience of product design analysis techniques (Pugh, DFMEA, FTA)
• Experience of process design analysis techniques (PCP, PFMEA)
• Knowledge of munitions design and manufacture
• Safety Management - IOSH Managing Safety/NEBOSH Certificate
• Experience and knowledge of manufacturing in a high hazard environment
• A working knowledge of Systems Engineering and Engineering design
• Safety Case experience for product qualification evidence gathering.

Are you a junior or assistant buyer craving a step up in your career?

Do you love the buzz of new product development and want to bring your ideas to life?

We’re working with an innovative textiles business that supplies beautiful products to major UK retailers. They’re looking for someone creative, energetic and ready to get stuck into their role in NPD.

You’ll join a fast-paced, supportive team where your ideas matter, and your energy is valued. This is a hands-on role for someone who’s excited about product development, loves building relationships and wants to see their visions become a reality. If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and dive into the world of product & buying, we want to hear from you!

What you’ll get

• Salary £28k - £30K (DOE)
li>Pension scheme
• Health cash plan
• Hybrid / flexible working options
• Birthday off!
• The chance to travel overseas

About You

• You’re passionate about products and always on the lookout for what’s new
• You’re confident talking to suppliers and negotiating deals
< i>Highly organised, detail-focused and love seeing projects through
• You’re curious, always asking questions and eager to learn
< i>You bring energy, positivity and aren’t afraid to get involved

About the role

< i>Supporting the buying team with sourcing and developing new products
• Building relationships with suppliers (UK and international)
• Helping negotiate prices and keeping products on budget
• Spotting trends and new opportunities
• Getting involved in range planning and product launches

About the company

• A business that’s doubled in recent years
< i>Supplier to the UK’s largest home textiles retailer < i>Clear scope for personal and professional development
• A business that values your ideas and gives you room to grow

Ready to step up? Call us today we’d love to talk to you! Or apply now.

BAE Systems is currently recruiting a Product Development Engineer to join the Defence & Security sector. This contractual role is based in Glascoed with hybrid working arrangements, allowing for flexible working hours across four days. This 12-month engagement offers a unique opportunity to work on innovative projects within the defence sector.

• Travelling to UK and potentially overseas sites for tests and trials
• Writing detailed reports on findings and progress
• Developing and testing new products to ensure alignment with project goals
• Supporting the product design team, ensuring all standards are adhered to
• Providing customer support as needed
• Writing technical specifications
• Conducting technical design and analysis

• Experience in product development within the Defence & Security sector
• Ability to travel for 1-2 weeks at a time as required
• Experience in writing technical reports and specifications
• Strong abilities in technical design and analysis
• Capability to develop and test products effectively
• Excellent customer support skills

• Hybrid working arrangements - 3 days on-site and 1 day from home
• Condensed hours, working over 4 days
• Opportunity to contribute to high-impact defence projects

If you are a skilled Product Development Engineer with experience in the Defence & Security sector, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join BAE in their commitment to innovation and excellence.

• To complete allocated product development tasks and projects to agreed timetable
• To work to a weekly laboratory work plan for the product portfolio.
• To support Production with the transfer of a new product or a modified existing product from laboratory to production
• To support the Senior Product Development Chemists and Quality Manager with the investigation of customer and supplier complaints
• To gather, compile and interpret data in order to contribute to project reports

• Education to Degree level or above in chemistry (or equivalent)
• Some experience of working in a manufacturing business involved with 2 component polymer chemistry.
• Experience of working in a commercial laboratory including a range of testing techniques.