We're looking for an ambitious and solutions driven Junior NPD Technologist to join our client, a market-leading food manufacturing company based in Shropshire. This is an exceptional opportunity with a market-leading food manufacturer based in Shropshire, offering a launch pad for anyone wanting to progress a career in Food Development/NPD in UK food manufacturing.Full-time permanent role offering a salary of £27,000, based at the North Shropshire factory, Monday to Friday.----As a Junior NPD Technologist your role would be varied, and the position represents a hands-on career opportunity in a very busy NPD department; supporting the NPD team to deliver a great range of food products, with involvement from product concept through to launch. Working on all stage of the NPD process, ensuring communication multi-functionally, your work will involve…- Looking at regular market trends contributing ideas for new products- Support in the development and modification of products in line with customer requirements- Reviewing and assessing data from production trials- Supporting customer benchmarking and quality panels- Manage critical path workloads, with a continuous improvement approach- Writing customer required technical documents- Attend and support product launches- NPD kitchen responsibilities, including customer samples---About YouEssentially you must have some experience working in food and drink manufacturing, ideally in an NPD/Innovation/Development envi...