What’s so cool about chilled food?

The UK chilled food industry is the most advanced in the world with more than 25 major companies, employing around 60,000 people.  Between them CFA member companies offer a wide variety of jobs, excellent career development and competitive salaries for people of very high calibre who can work to exacting standards under pressurised conditions. Many offer established graduate training programmes and the opportunity to travel.

There are some 8,000 technical posts in the chilled food sector, 1,700 of which require graduate level technical qualifications

Check out CFA members’ recruitment websites if you are looking for a job.

Typical jobs in the chilled food industry fall into four main groups:

• Laboratory-based roles assuring the safety and quality of food
• Development roles working with food to develop and launch new products
• Working in the supply chain with suppliers and customers
• Working with teams in factories to help develop good manufacturing practices

To help you get a flavour of responsibilities and required qualifications in the fast-moving chilled foods industry we have selected some examples of typical roles. Those in blue have links to downloadable example job descriptions:

Chilled technical roles include:

Chilled careers

Check out CFA members’ recruitment websites if you are looking for a job.