Main Purpose of Job To ensure that all customer specifications, pack copies and artwork are accurately set up and relevant customer documentation is produced in line with critical path timescales and launch deadlines. To drive compliance and continuous improvement in:
- Specification completion.
- Artwork process for checking and sign off.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure due diligence and take into consideration timescales, company procedures, legislation along with customer codes of practices.
- Set up, for approval, all external customer specifications or relevant technical information in accordance with customer specification requirements
- Ensure compliance with updated customer technical policies, current labelling standards and include all regulatory changes that will impact back of pack information
- Follow relevant Group and site process development procedures, ensuring these are documented correctly and are compliant with internal & customer standards.
- Communication with all relevant internal departments and external parties to ensure that specification compliance is achieved within realistic timescales
- The responsibility for managing the review of artwork to ensure that all pack information is accurate and also in line with the technical labelling policies.
- To issue outer case labels and maintain the archive for all of the sites.
- Complete 1-2 Internal audits at each site under the direction of the Group Technical Services Manager and Group Audit Manager. Support as part of the internal audit team.
- To ensure that Oscar Mayer site documentation is completed for all aspects related to specification process.
- Any other duties or projects as agreed with the Group Senior Specification Technologist.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential level of knowledge, qualification, training and experience necessary to enable the Jobholder to perform the job to an acceptable standard
Qualification
- Food Safety Level 3 as a minimum
- HACCP Level 3 as a minimum
- Labelling Qualification / Training
- Food Law Qualification (desirable)
Knowledge & Experience
- Worked in specifications for a minimum of 2 years
- 2 years’ experience within Chilled Manufacturing (High Care and / or High Risk).
- Understands customer specification systems (retailers)
- Understands specification systems (branded desirable)
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Canteen
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Store discount
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Location:
- Wrexham LL13 9UG (preferred)
Work Location: In person