Specifications Technologist

Equation Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Specifications Technologist in Buckingham to ensure compliance for product safety and manage specifications. The ideal candidate will collaborate with R&D, Quality, and Supply Chain teams. Responsibilities include maintaining specifications, managing supplier approvals, and responding to customer queries. The role demands strong communication skills and a passion for quality, with an emphasis on continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing product specifications and compliance.
• Strong understanding of UK/EU legislation regarding food safety.
• Ability to collaborate with various departments effectively.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance for product safety, legality, and authenticity.
• Manage and maintain supplier approval processes.
• Draft specifications and nutritional information for products.

Skills

Customer focus

Collaboration

Effective communication

Continuous improvement mindset

Performance-driven

Job description

Specifications Technologist

Salary: £30,000
Location: Buckingham
Shift: Monday to Friday, 08:00 – 16:00

Our client is a global leader in bakery, patisserie and chocolate and now they’re looking for an experienced Specifications Technologist to join their expanding Buckingham site.

Your Mission as a Specifications Technologist;

You will be an integral part of the team that ensures compliance for product safety, legality, and authenticity in the production of our clients products at all UK sites. Ensuring compliance in accordance with UK and Group policies.

This role will focus on the completion and maintenance of all finished product, raw material, and packaging specifications to a standard that complies with all relevant UK/EU legislation. It will involve liaising with R&D, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain and raw material and packaging suppliers to ensure specifications are correctly completed in a timely manner.

The role will manage the Supplier Approval process and respond to customer queries relating to ingredients, finished products and packaging specifications.

What you will do as a Specifications Technologist

Using your passion for quality and collaboration, you will:

• Creating Draft Specifications & Nutritional Information sheets for Development Products based on information provided by R&D.
• Writing finished product specifications on the client’s template or on customer supplied templates or web-based portals.
• Be the point of contact for all related queries for finished products, raw materials, and packaging specifications from all stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Dealing with customer requests for technical information or escalating to other members of the Quality team for completion.
• Arrange the completion of customer self-audit questionnaires (SAQs)
• Assisting account managers and commercial team with the completion of technical information and new line forms.
• Manage and maintain the supplier approval process – review as required and ensure all certification/claims and audit documentation is up to date and meets company requirements.
• Manage the Raw Material and Packaging Database. Manage requests and complete the regular assessment of Raw Material specifications.
• Provide all manufacturing sites and customers with product related legislation (support will always be available from the UK QSHE Manager).
• Support Site Compliance Manager with audit traces, site trace exercises and mock recalls, pre-audit questionnaires and associated information requests.
• Be an active member of the Internal Audit team for the food safety and quality systems.
• Participate in site Continuous Improvement meetings and projects which relate to specifications.
• Maintain the Technical/QA Folder when needed.
  
  
  

What they expect from you as a Specifications Technologist

• Manage Customer needs:Be able and eager to find out what the internal or external customer wants and needs and to act accordingly; taking the costs and benefits into account. Make the life of the customer easier. Fostering a customer centric culture.
• Collaborate Effectively:Think and act as one team in a spirit of trust and respect. Be open to different ideas. Work intentionally towards consensus in the achievement of shared objectives. Build formal and informal relationship networks
• Communicate Effectively:Develop and deliver communications in diverse modes that generate a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Improve Continuously:Be passionate about achieving high quality standards for you and the client. Constantly look for and taking advantage of improvement opportunities. Propose new ideas and demonstrate openness for change. Build self-awareness and embrace learning and development opportunities.
• Drive Performance:Show ambition and go the extra mile in achieving expected results; drive sustainable operational excellence through diligent planning, prioritisation, monitoring & effective use of resources. Take responsibility for decisions, actions and mistakes. Deal with setbacks and unexpected situations in a positive and confident way.

Get in touch now if you are ready for the challenge.