Food Technologist
Listed on 2026-09-27
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Quality Assurance - QA/QC
Food Quality & Safety
This is an opportunity for a detail-focused and technically curious Food Technologist to join a knowledgeable, highly valued team at the heart of apetito’s New Product Development function. In this role, you will help turn product and ingredient information into clear, accurate and legally compliant data that supports safe, high-quality meals for people who rely on our food every day.
Working within the Ingredients Function, you would be one of three Food Technologists reporting to the Food Technology Supervisor. The team provides the technical expertise that underpins specifications, artwork, customer queries, new product launches and changes in food legislation.
You will play a key role in ensuring raw materials and finished products meet legislative, customer and apetito requirements, helping to protect product integrity from concept through to launch and beyond.
This is a role for someone who enjoys precision, problem solving and communication. You will work closely with suppliers, development colleagues and internal stakeholders to gather, interpret, approve and share product information, making sure the right technical detail is available to the right people at the right time.
Alongside your development colleagues, you will support the delivery of new and improved products, bringing together technical accuracy, legislative awareness and practical delivery to help projects move forward to agreed deadlines.
You will become a trusted source of product knowledge for colleagues in areas such as dietetics, marketing and sales, while being supported to keep your own food legislation knowledge current so you can help implement changes with confidence .
This role is based at our UK Head Office in Trowbridge Wiltshire.
This is an opportunity for a detail-focused and technically curious Food Technologist to join a knowledgeable, highly valued team at the heart of apetito’s New Product Development function. In this role, you will help turn product and ingredient information into clear, accurate and legally compliant data that supports safe, high-quality meals for people who rely on our food every day.
Working within the Ingredients Function, you would be one of three Food Technologists reporting to the Food Technology Supervisor. The team provides the technical expertise that underpins specifications, artwork, customer queries, new product launches and changes in food legislation.
You will play a key role in ensuring raw materials and finished products meet legislative, customer and apetito requirements, helping to protect product integrity from concept through to launch and beyond.
This is a role for someone who enjoys precision, problem solving and communication. You will work closely with suppliers, development colleagues and internal stakeholders to gather, interpret, approve and share product information, making sure the right technical detail is available to the right people at the right time.
Alongside your development colleagues, you will support the delivery of new and improved products, bringing together technical accuracy, legislative awareness and practical delivery to help projects move forward to agreed deadlines.
You will become a trusted source of product knowledge for colleagues in areas such as dietetics, marketing and sales, while being supported to keep your own food legislation knowledge current so you can help implement changes with confidence .
This role is based at our UK Head Office in Trowbridge Wiltshire.
apetito is the UK’s leading food supplier to the health and social care sectors serving more than 1,300 care homes, health care and education settings.
Our meals are expertly crafted by our dieticians and chefs, and then frozen to lock in the goodness.
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