Specifications Technologist – Full Time – Pontypool

Catering; Pontypool; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Referral incentive £500

Job summary

Catering in Pontypool, Torfaen, is seeking a dedicated Specifications Technician to liaise with internal and external clients, ensuring accurate information flow and compliance with UK food laws. The role covers creating and controlling internal and external specs and coordinating artwork and pack copies.

You will maintain supplier and raw material specs, support audits against BRCGS standards, and train the technical team on labeling and FIR, with a strong focus on detail, timeliness and clear

Qualifications

• Proven knowledge of legal labelling, nutritional analysis, FIR, specifications and pack copy.
• Experience with artwork processes and online proofing.
• Project management experience.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to train technical teams on labelling and FIR.

Responsibilities

• Create, issue and control internal and external specifications.
• Review and update customer specifications for requirements.
• Ensure accurate and timely completion of specifications and pack copies for launches.
• Ensure compliance with legislation and update accordingly.
• Upload customer specifications to relevant databases.
• Create pack copies (ingredient declarations and nutritional) for artwork.
• Sign off final artwork and ensure timely release to printers.
• Review artwork against pack copy and request changes.
• Maintain product change traceability by filing artwork and specs.
• Sign off all new artwork against signed pack copy.
• Review raw material specs for legality and accuracy.
• Assist in supplier visits and risk assessments.
• Train technical team to increase FIR knowledge.

Skills

Legal labelling

Nutritional analysis

FIR

Specifications

Pack copy

Artwork process

Online proofing

Project management

Attention to detail

Communication

Education

Degree in Food Science/Technology or Food Nutrition

Job description

Job Purpose:

The role will involve liaising with internal and external clients to ensure accurate communication of information and legal compliance.

The Role:

• Create, issue and control internal and external specifications in the format required or requested.
• Review, updating and maintenance of customer specifications in line with business and customer requirements.
• Accurate and timely completion of internal and external customer specifications and or pack copy for launches.
• Ensure that all specifications and pack copies are accurate and comply with all relevant legislation and amend as necessary.
• Upload all customer specifications onto the relevant data bases.
• Creating pack copies (ingredient declarations and nutritional) for artwork generation of all our own brands as well as external customers in the internal/specified format, for new products or product upgrades.
• Legal /Best Practise/ monitoring and communications.
• TACCP/VACCP Risk Assessment and documentation maintenance.
• Assist with internal audits based on BRCGS food safety standards.
• Manage all artworks though the artwork process and be responsible for checking comments and providing the final technical and legal checks.
• Reviewing artwork submitted against the relevant pack copy using the label / packaging sign off procedure making amends and requesting the changes where necessary.
• Manage sign off of final artwork and ensure timely release to printers.
• Ensure all artwork and approved pack copies are filed with the relevant Customer specifications to ensure product change traceability
• Signing off all new artwork against the signed off pack copy.
• Check existing packaging and identifying anything which requires updating in addition to FIR conversion.
• Assist in training the technical team to increase their legal labelling and FIR knowledge.
• Check & approve relevant Raw Material specifications for legality and accuracy thereby ensuring correct specs enter the business & ensuring raw material specifications cover the ever changing customer & business technical requirements.
• Highlighting any errors/ amend Raw material specifications coming into the business and make sure they are up to date with any relevant changes. Make sure all raw material specifications are in the correct business format.
• Conducting supplier visits
• Maintaining Supplier /raw material risk assessment Creating and maintenance of raw material testing plan to meet customer requirements and risk assessment requirements.

The Person:

Proven knowledge and experience of legal labelling, nutritional analysis, FIR, specifications

and pack copy, artwork processes and on-line proofing

Project management experience

Attention to detail – checking pack copy and artworks, spotting errors and inconsistencies.

A degree held in Food Science / Technology or Food Nutrition will be advantageous.

Be the key point of contact for technologists and suppliers.

Review and maintenance of raw material specifications.

Challenging suppliers, ensuring requests for information / Food safety questions are resolved / answered promptly within the critical path timescales

Constant drive, enthusiasm and self-motivation with ability to motivate others

Committed, disciplined and well organised.

Team Player

Able to communicate effectively with people at all levels of the business.

Ability to work under pressure.

Our Referral Incentive:

Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from us you have not been shortlisted for this role. Please continue to check our website for any other roles which may be of interest.

We offer a £500 referral if you introduce someone we place – see our website for details

We regret that this client is not prepared to sponsor work permit or work permit transfer applications. Candidates must be able to prove their eligibility to work in the UK

Salary:

Job Type:

Permanent

Location:

Pontypool, Torfaen County Borough