Test Technician: Product Quality
Basingstoke
£28-33K + 5% AVP + Benefits
Lavazza Professional is the Business-to-business (B2B) arm of Lavazza Group; as a brand we have grown over the last 120 years from a small Italian artisanal company to an industrial giant. Throughout our growth, we have remained family owned, and our passion for quality coffee is coupled with a spirit of entrepreneurship, defined by innovation and a sense of responsibility.
At Lavazza Professional, our goal is to fuel workplace productivity and wellness, we bring high performance vending technologies to offices and factory floors in over 10,000 businesses across the UK. Partnering with some of the nation’s best loved drinks brands, we make sure choosing the perfect menu couldn’t be easier. With significant investment into research and development, we now offer a wide range of customised vending solutions and our range is ever expanding.
As a company, we are proud to announce our “Roadmap to Zero”, our aim is to completely neutralise the Group’s carbon footprint by the end of 2030. With an investment of about €50million in the 2020-2021 period, you can be proud to join a company dedicated to sustainability, innovation, and employee development.
We’re hiring a Test Technician to join our Product Quality team.
In this role, you’ll perform product testing to assess the functionality and performance of our workplace coffee machines.
Day to day, this means working in our workshops and lab spaces and thinking to ensure that coffee brewers and vending machines behave safely and appropriately under a range of conditions, deliver the expected hot or cold drinks product which satisfies the customer expectation and performance promise.
Your test activities will generate data, from which you will prepare reports to present your findings to R&D in order to support ongoing product development and improvement.
A logical approach, attention to detail are important skills and a natural curiosity are key attributes that will contribute to your success.
You will be responsible for;
· Executing technical product testing on coffee and vending machines including:
o Performing risk assessments
o Developing test plans which measure performance
o Supporting the development of project test protocols
o Managing samples, prototypes and preparing testing
o Organising workload and lab activities according to business priorities
o Capturing results, detailed technical report writing and feedback for quality and performance
· Reviewing and updating product test protocols and procedures
· Identifying, recommending and implementing improvements to test protocols and ways of working.
The successful candidate will;
· have an HND/HNC in a science or engineering discipline
· be a self-starter mentality, able to prioritise, organise and manage their time across multiple projects
· have a natural curiosity and demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills
· have a technical literacy to undertake detailed report writing
· have a strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel and working to 3 standard deviations
Reward Me
· Competitive Salary
· 25 days holiday plus eight statutory bank holiday
· Pension Scheme
· Private Health Care
· Employee Assistance Programme
· Onsite Café
· Complimentary fruit on site
· On site gym
· Ample free parking
· Employee social events such as Summer BBQ’s, Easter Hunt etc
· Plus a range of health and well-being benefits
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £28,000.00-£33,000.00 per year
Benefits:
* Company pension
* Free parking
* On-site parking
* Private medical insurance