Food Production Technician

Location: Bath 

This is an exciting opportunity to support Ecotricity’s emerging energy ventures as we take our green energy revolution to the next level. With a clear mission to build a Green Britain, we’re always looking to push new forms of sustainable practices in energy, food and transport.

We are currently looking for a Food Production Technician you will be responsible for the production of plant-based protein in a food safe environment to be used for testing and approval with the Food Standards Agency (FSA). Reporting to the Delivery Manager and working alongside the Postdoctoral Research Associate form the University of Bath, the incumbent will help to build and operate the production process. This will require usage of various manufacturing and processing equipment including a shredder, extruder, centrifuge and membrane filtration system.

As a Food Production Technician you will need to be self-motivated and driven to hit production targets, able to work both alone and in close collaboration with the project’s scientific advisors.

This project aims to revolutionise the way we produce food in Britain, making it sustainable, local, affordable to all and improving security of supply. Working in close collaboration with the University of Bath’s Chemical Engineering department, a process has been established to produce a plant-based protein. The next step is to turn it into a food product for human consumption.

To Achieve this, a development kitchen is being established in Bath to manufacture the food in a controlled environment in preparation for going through the FSA approval process. The space will also be used for further refinement and testing of the production process.

Role Responsibilities include:

• Operating the equipment in the development kitchen to produce batches of the new food product.
• Following all procedures put in place to ensure food safety and quality standards are met
• Maintaining and cleaning the equipment to ensure efficient and food safe operation.
• Collaborating closely with the scientific advisory team from University of Bath
• Trying new methods and making suggestions on how the process can be improved and developed.
• Report to the Delivery Manager to ensure production targets are put in place and met on time.
• Reviewing food safe procedures to explore how these could be improved upon to enhance quality or efficiency of food production.

What's in it for you...

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Hybrid working
Various company discounts (including shops, gym, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment. 

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity- the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain- by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too- we build windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this 'bills in to mills'. In 2021, we started work on building two new solar parks, and now, in 2023, we're bringing geothermal energy to our customers' fuel mix, a first in the UK. We're also developing green gas mills which will generate 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of- grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built Electric Highways, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points, we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world, and, in partnership with RSPB, we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.