Specifications Technologist

Specification Technologist
Bakkavor Meals , Wigan

• £26,000 - £30,000 based on experience
• Full time Permanent
• Monday - Friday 8.30am -5pm
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Highly competitive reward package including Group Pension
• Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

What will you do?

• Technical Standards: Completion of finished product specifications to meet the critical path and/or customer requirements, ensuring completion to right first-time requirements for the retailer.
• NPD: Review of finished product artwork to ensure the finished product artwork standards and legal requirements are met and delivered to the agreed critical path.
• Escalates appropriately internally/externally if discrepancies found.
• Customer Management: To ensure all retailer online systems are reviewed and the housekeeping of site details are kept up to date and accurate.
• Customer: To ensure the customer interface internally and externally are managed professionally and in a timely manner.
• Audits: Contribute to customer audits and visits demonstrating the full compliance to the specifications administration.
• Technical Standards: Ensure the raw material details entered on the finished product spec are the most up to date and applicable for the launch of the product. Tracking any changes to raw material supply and updating finished product specs accordingly.
• Quality Systems: Maintain high standard of document control relating to the details required for all finished product specifications.
• Communication: ensure that inaccuracies found during the specification to Launch process are raised in the appropriate manner to the relevant manager as quickly as possible.
• Health and Safety: To operate in a safe working manner. Support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment

About you

• Have experience as a Specifications Technologist or Specification Writing. The role is suitable for a Food Science Graduate interested by a career path in Nutrition and Specifications of products.
• Be a confident and articulate communicator.
• Have excellent computer skills.

About us

Bakkavor is the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.

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