Specifications Technologist

Greencore; Greater London; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a vibrant and fast-paced food manufacturing company as a Specifications Technologist. In this role, you'll ensure compliance with customer specifications and regulatory standards while working with a diverse team. You'll be responsible for documenting procedures and validating specifications to drive continuous improvement. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your career in a leading organization that values diversity and invests in employee development. Enjoy competitive benefits and a supportive work environment where your contributions make a real difference.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life Insurance up to 4x salary

Company Share Save Scheme

Employee Discount Platform

Access to Wellbeing Centre

Qualifications

• Educated to HND level or equivalent professional qualification.
• Experience in writing specifications for retailers in food manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Set up approval for external specifications according to customer requirements.
• Review raw material specification content to develop 'gold standard' specifications.

Skills

Food Hygiene Level 2

Health and Safety Level 2

Specification Writing

Web-Based Specification Systems

Legal Labelling Legislation

Education

HND or Equivalent Professional Qualification

Tools

Web-Based Systems

Job description

Greencore West Drayton, England, United Kingdom

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Why Greencore?
We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.
We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.
Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Here at Heathrow, we are a growing team with around 450 colleagues. We produce chilled & hot eat Food for Now products including salads, sandwiches & wraps, Protein Pots & snacking. As well as Food for Later products such as ready meals & sides for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Amazon Fresh, Asda, Aldi, Co-op, Morrisons and Sainsbury's.

What You'll Be Doing

• Set up approval for external specifications and relevant technical information in accordance with customer requirements
• Review copy artwork, in line with updated customer technical and labelling policies, and include all regulatory changes that will impact on the accuracy of the pack information and labelling
• Document procedures to ensure that internal and customer compliance is met, and the relevant process development practices are adopted
• Reviewing raw material specification content to develop "gold standard" specifications for each raw material to improve compliance
• Validation of specifications and processes to identify synergies and scope for consolidation through a continuous improvement process
• Operate in compliance with Health Safety and Environment policy to ensure that the working environment remains safe for all colleagues

What we're looking for
We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

• Ideally educated to HND level or equivalent professional qualification
• Holds a level 2 food hygiene and a level 2 health and safety certification
• Experience working with computers and experienced in using web-based customer specification systems
• Knowledge and experience of writing specifications for retailers in food manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of legal labelling legislation and application
• Knowledge and experience of variety of retailer own web-based systems

We're proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Manufacturing

• Industries

  Manufacturing

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