Location: Moodiesburn, United Kingdom
Package: Competitive with benefits
Position Type: Permanent

Development Technologist

About us:

We are one of the world’s leading manufacturers of collagen products for the food industry. We supply high quality edible films and coatings​ to over 1,000 customers in more than 100 countries, delivering our purpose of ‘Creating the Added Layer of Value’.

Primarily used by customers in the production of a wide variety of sausage and meat products, our aspirations reach way beyond our current products and services, and appeal to our natural curiosity to improve what we do.

As a global organisation, we currently employ around 2,000 people spanning the Americas, UK/EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions.  We offer careers in research and development, science and food technology, manufacturing and supply chain operations, engineering, sales, and a range of other business support functions.  We are always seeking talented people to join the amazing colleagues we have, to keep growing our business.

Our mission is to sustainably utilise technology and biomaterial science-based solutions, to delight our customers.  We are a business committed to the pursuit of better. The constant pursuit of what’s next, what’s needed, what’s possible now, and in the future.  Do you want to be part of our journey?

About the role

Reporting to the Project Manager, you will form as part of our Global Business Development Team, within our Research and Development function. You will be responsible for driving product and technology development in key projects, improving existing designs and resolving manufacturing or quality issues.

Responsibilities

  • Drive product and technology development streams in various projects​
  • Develop new ideas that fuel innovation pipelines​
  • Deliver solutions that meet both customer needs and internal manufacturing and quality performance targets​
  • Plan, organise and safely execute product line trials with development and production teams providing leadership and guidance​
  • Participate in product trials at customer facilities​
  • Manage projects – end-to-end and in close collaboration with our Commercial and Supply Chain functions

About you

Experience:​

  • Evidence of sound scientific and technical knowledge
  • 2+ years of experience in R&D or Supply Chain
  • Examples of successfully managed innovation projects (product launches)

Technical Skills:​

  • Scientific principle and practice: Proficient​
  • Product Design & Process: Proficient​
  • Product Applications: Proficient

What next?

If this sounds like a role that you would be interested in, then we would love to hear from you.  To apply, please email a copy of your CV, along with a cover letter explaining the key attributes that you could bring to the role.

We value the support recruitment agencies provide, however we are unable to accept speculative CV’s from agencies we are not already engaged with.

Email address for applications: linsey.adair@devro.com 

Closing Date: 22/09/2024

*Please note, closing dates are subject to change and, at time of high volume of applications, this may be brought forward.

Other important information:

We believe it takes diversity of thought, culture, background, and perspective to create a truly innovative company.  So if you share our values, purpose and drive for growth and sustainability, then we want to hear from you.  If you require any adjustments to be able to pursue an application with us, please let our Recruitment team know.

Information Security is paramount at Devro, so your application and any personal data you share with us will be processed and stored in line with our Candidate Privacy Notice which you can view here https://www.devro.com/careers.