Laboratory Technician

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by the Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 24,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from more than 1,700 British farmers. The Müller brand is ranked at No.7 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands, and is also the 7th most chosen brand in the UK.
We’re recruiting … Laboratory Technician
We are currently looking to recruit a Laboratory Technician to join our Bridgwater Dairy within our Muller Milk & Ingredients business. The successful candidate will assure quality performance through analysis, subject knowledge and testing performance whilst striving to continuously improve in line with the Müller values.
Contract: Full Time – Permanent Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off Hours of work: Typical working hours are: 7am-7pm / 7pm – 7am (2 days then 2 nights) Salary: £28,634.82 per annum Location: Bridgwater
Responsibilities:

• Carries out quality based testing such as chemical and microbial tests. These tests include freeze point depression, antibiotics and analysing cleaning chemical concentrations
• Microbial tests include TVCs, enteros and carrying out environmental sampling
• Investigation and route cause analysis are carried out occasionally
• Displays drive and motivation to continually improve quality based performance
• Demonstrates active involvement in solving problems / trouble shooting through data analysis and evaluation
• Plays an active part in building QMS capability across site
• Responsible for laboratory tasks and management systems (5S etc)
• Supports and process confirms operations quality control responsibilities
• Has a good understanding and plays an active part within the performance management system (PMS)
• Provides governance and ownership of Quality Index and other monthly reports
• Displays good team work ability

Key Skills:

• Health and safety commitment of self and others
• Looks for “waste” in everything that we do
• Actively seeks out improvement opportunities within the workplace
• Collaboratively works with other team members to improve our business

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Leading - Building relationships, growing capability and critically reflects.
• Entrepreneurial Agility – Operating with discipline, showing commerciality as well as embracing and enabling change.
• Strategic Thinking – Use technical knowledge to achieve results, encourage and facilitate sharing of best practice, think and act decisively.

Benefits: In return for your contributions to our success, Müller offers a competitive salary package We value our people and are proud to offer a wide range of benefits:

• A competitive salary
• Monthly paid
• Overtime payable
• Career progression
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme with Muller matching up to 4%
• Life Assurance at 2 x your annual salary
• We know it’s important to take time to spend with family and friends, we give you 22 days holiday
• Access the Müller Rewards discount scheme offering over 800 discounts online and in-store and the potential to make savings across grocery and clothes shopping, holidays, insurance, gifts and more

Contact Details: Talent Supply Team, Müller UK & Ireland, Shrewsbury Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3SQ