Technologist I

The Bread Factory is London’s leading Artisan Bakery, known for award-winning breads, pastries, and cakes, supplying top-quality products across e-commerce, grocery, food services, and retailers such as our GAIL’s Bakeries nationwide. As our teams grow, we seek our next Process Technologist to join our NPD team. Every day is different at The Bread Factory, but here are some of the things you will be doing: Receive and fully understand project handovers from the Development team, ensuring risk assessments are approved and process feasibility is assessed with mitigation plans in place. Plan and coordinate factory trials, including ordering and managing ingredient deliveries. Create and maintain detailed process flow documentation from test bakery/kitchen through to full factory scale. Record trial data including recipe details, line settings, adjustments, SPC data, key measurements, and photos. Ensure recipes are correctly set up within production systems and planning tools. Identify and implement improvement opportunities from trials and live production. Obtain approvals for Process Flow documents and Quality Attribute Standards. Proven ability to scale recipes from test kitchen to factory production. Strong understanding of bakery manufacturing processes, systems and parameters. Familiarity with process documentation, recipe management and production planning systems (experience with tools such as Cybake, Smartsheet or ERP systems is advantageous). Strong numeracy and IT skills, including Excel and data analysis. Able to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment. Fresh bread daily to take home to enjoy with family and friends. 50% discount at GAIL’s and 40% off at The Bread Factory & The Flour Station Markets.~25 days holiday + bank holidays~ Discounts and Savings from high-street retailers and restaurants~Cycle to work scheme…