What would you get for working here?

Skills

If you have the technical compliance skills and experience we are looking for, you will receive a total reward package that includes:

- A salary of between £30,000 and £35,000 (DOE)
- 8% Pension Contribution (5% Ees / 3% Ers)
- 28 days annual leave (Inc of Bank Holidays)
- £250 refer-a-friend scheme
- Access to Stream (formerly Wagestream) – a financial wellbeing benefit that lets you track earnings and access earned pay before payday, plus budgeting tools and money support to help you stay in control.
- Access to an exclusive employee benefits/discounts platform where you can save £££s on your everyday spends
- Professional development opportunities and qualifications
- A progressive working environment that puts its people at the heart of what it does
- Great opportunity for career development

What would you be doing? Our vision as a business is to be the “go-to” supplier of premium bakery products, working nationally with leading retailers and regionally through our own brands. As our Technical Compliance Assistant, you’ll directly contribute to this by helping us make sure the ingredients and raw materials entering our bakeries meet our own high standards as well as regulatory and customer requirements.

Working across our five sites and reporting to the Technical Compliance Manager, your responsibilities will include:

- Completing raw-material intake checks against approved specifications, procedures and customer requirements.
- Checking material identity, supplier details, batch information, durability, packaging, labelling, allergens and supporting documentation.
- Carrying out physical and sensory checks including colour, texture, odour and taste, where appropriate.
- Reviewing delivery information, certificates of analysis,



specifications and other records to maintain traceability and integrity.
- Identifying and reporting non-conformances and gathering information to support supplier investigations.
- Taking planned and ad-hoc raw-material samples for microbiological, chemical, allergen, authenticity and other testing.
- Completing sampling and verification activities required by customer standards, including M&S; requirements.
- Correctly collecting, labelling, storing and maintaining raw-material and retention samples.
- Maintaining the raw-material check and sampling schedule across our sites and following up any missed or overdue activity.
- Keeping clear, accurate and audit-ready records, including sampling trackers, delivery records and laboratory results.
- Supporting internal audits and providing evidence relating to raw-material controls and customer requirements.
- Working closely with our Technical, Quality Assurance, NPD, Procurement, Intake and Stores teams.
- Helping identify potential raw-material risks before they can affect finished-product safety, legality, authenticity or quality.

What skills and qualifications would you need? To be successful in the role of Technical Compliance Assistant, we are looking for someone who is organised, methodical and comfortable working with detailed information.

Essential

- Excellent attention to detail and strong organisational skills.
- Valuable written and verbal communication skills.




- Ability to manage several tasks and priorities while working to deadlines.
- Competence using Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a wider team.
- A flexible and adaptable approach with a willingness to learn.
- Ability to travel between our sites as required.
- Full UK driving licence.

Desirable

- Previous experience within quality assurance, technical compliance or raw-material inspection in food manufacturing, although training can be provided.
- Experience within a food manufacturing business supplying major retailers.
- Food Safety Level 3.
- HACCP Level 2.
- Internal Auditor qualification.
- An understanding of food-industry regulatory requirements, BRCGS and retailer standards, including M&S.;

So, who are we? If you haven’t heard of us before we are a family owned and managed Craft Bakery producing an award-winning range of Bread, Morning Goods, Pies and gluten free products. Our business has been producing products in this category since 1964 and since then we have grown in success due to our reputation for quality, innovation and technical experience. As a result of this continued growth, we now operate from a number of world class and well invested bakeries in and around Wrexham, including our dedicated Gluten free site ‘Gluten Freedom’ and our state-of-the-art ‘Super Bakery’ at Ash Road.

If you would like to join our award-winning, quality-driven team please use the ‘apply now’ link and follow the on-line application instructions.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team soon!

Equal opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process

📌 TECHNICAL COMPLIANCE ASSISTANT (Vijayawada)
🏢 The Village Bakery Group
📍 Vijayawada