Title:  Agriculture Technical Coordinator

We’re recruiting…Agriculture Technical Coordinator

Location:  Nearest Muller Milk & Ingredients site / Hybrid - 3 days per week on site.

Contract: Full-Time, 12 month Fixed term contract

Hours: Monday–Friday (40 hours)

Benefits for the role:

Competitive salary, generous annual bonus, job need company car, Life Assurance,  Health Care Cash Plan,  25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising with service), Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Family Leave, Enhanced Bereavement Leave, Pension Employer Contribution Scheme (matched up to 8%), Exclusive access to Müller Rewards, offering a variety of online and in-store discounts and development opportunities.

Müller has been a loved brand in the UK for over 30 years. It’s a household name – and it continues to grow as we invest to make and market an ever-great range of fantastic dairy products. We are currently the 8th most chosen FMCG brand, picked from supermarket shelves over 208 million times each year.

We are recruiting for an Agriculture Technical Coordinator for a 12-month fixed term contract, to support the Agriculture Technical team function to maintain and improve the raw milk quality for the business through maintaining technical & food safety compliance of raw milk supply; hygiene and food safety compliance of  bulk milk transportations. You will support improvement projects relating to raw milk data transfer.

What you’ll do:

• Maintain the quality of raw milk supply by working with the Milk Supply Technical Manager and Farm Supply Technical Manager. You will liaise with Site Technical Teams as required.
• Deliver the technical Compliance and Food Safety of bulk raw milk transport by ensuring compliance to related Muller procedures. Manage milk quality/sampling issues as they occur.
• Provide OOH and weekend cover as required on a rota system.
• Drive contract compliance to promote farm supply relationships, maintain quality milk supply as per business requirements developing farm supply continuous improvements.
• Ensure compliance with all legislative and regulatory requirements and drive compliance to Red Tractor Farm Assurance.
• Support Inbound Logistics initiatives and cost saving targets as required in the Agriculture Team.
• Attend regional farmer meetings and farm events/workshops &, Represent Muller at nominated agricultural shows and events as required.

 What you’ll bring:

• Technical college degree or Qualified by Experience.
• Excellent knowledge and ability with MS Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Able to create reports and manipulate basic data.
• Quality Assurance experience.
• Excellent demonstratable communication  skills, both verbal and written.
• Excellent track records of positive relationship building.
• Knowledge of the dairy industry and associated politics/policies.
• Minimum of 1 year working in an agriculture/food manufacturer; first hand experience of practical dairy farming would be beneficial.
• Flexible-able to provide Out of Hours cover.
• Ability to interpret farm quality data and present clear recommendations.
• Professional in approach and appearance.

At Müller, we’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage people to apply even if they don’t meet every requirement listed. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know - we’re happy to support you.

The Process

If you have the skills and experience in the above areas and would like to be considered for this role, please apply at www.mullercareers.co.uk

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