Overview

This Interim Process Technologist role will play a critical part in stabilising, strengthening, and embedding robust manufacturing processes within a high-risk poultry production environment. The role will focus on ensuring products are safe, repeatable, and fully validated for factory production, while supporting the delivery of new and existing poultry products to demanding retail and foodservice customers.

The Role

As Interim Process Technologist you will:

Provide hands-on interim process support within a high-throughput poultry sorting and grading operation
Act as the process link between production, technical, and central functions, ensuring alignment with group process standards and ways of working
Review, assess, and strengthen sorting, grading, handling, and flow processes to improve consistency, yield, and efficiency
Lead and support process trials and validations across live production lines, ensuring changes are safe, controlled, and sustainable
Identify and mitigate process risks specific to poultry sorting, including product handling, temperature control, hygiene, and line performance
Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on right-first-time processing, reduced rework, and improved line efficiency
Maintain high standards of food safety, quality, and process compliance throughout the interim period in a high-risk poultry environment

The Candidate

The successful Interim Process Technologist candidate will have:

Proven experience as a Process Technologist (or equivalent) within a high-care, high-risk food manufacturing environment, ideally within poultry or fresh protein operations
Demonstrable experience working on Marks & Spencer products, with a strong understanding of M&S standards, ways of working, and expectations around food safety, quality, and process control
A strong track record of leading factory trials, validating processes, and improving line performance within live production environments
The ability to assess existing processes quickly, identify risk and inefficiency, and implement practical, sustainable improvements
Experience working within centralised or group-led technical and process systems, ensuring site alignment and consistency
Confident, credible communication skills with the ability to influence production, technical, and central stakeholders in a high-pressure operational setting