Specifications Technologist Technical · BBF - Hull ·

Bright Blue Foods Limited; Hull and East Yorkshire; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life Assurance

Company Shop discount

25 days holiday

GP access

Bereavement service

Learning & Development

BBF Star Awards

Onsite canteen

Onsite Cake Shop

Free on-site parking

Job summary

BBF Limited in Hull is seeking a meticulous Specifications Technologist to create, manage and update product specifications using web-based retailer systems to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations. You will play a key role in maintaining high quality and safety for our products.

You will set up approvals for external customer specifications, review labelling policies, and document processes to ensure internal and customer compliance.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of writing specifications for retailers in a food manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of legal labelling legislation and application.
• Good level of computer literacy and experience using web-based customer specification systems.
• High level of detail.
• Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Set up approval for external customer specifications or relevant technical information in accordance with customer requirements.
• Review copy artwork in line with updated customer technical and labelling policies, including all regulatory changes that will impact on the accuracy of the pack information and labelling.
• Procedures correctly documented to ensure that internal and customer compliance are met, following the relevant Process Development procedures.
• 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.

Skills

Specification writing

Regulatory knowledge

Computer literacy

Communication skills

Tools

Web-based specs systems

Job description

Specifications Technologist

BBF Limited

Hull, Humberside

We are currently seeking a Specifications Technologist to join our team in Hull.

Who are we looking for?

We are seeking a meticulous and detail-oriented Specifications Technologist to join our technical team. In this role, you will be responsible for creating, managing, and updating product specifications using web-based retailer systems to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations. Your expertise will be pivotal in maintaining the highest quality and safety standards for our products.

The role of a Specifications Technologist

• Set up approval for external customer specifications or relevant technical information in accordance with customer requirements.


• Review copy artwork in line with updated customer technical and labelling policies, including all regulatory changes that will impact on the accuracy of the pack information and labelling.


• Procedures correctly documented to ensure that internal and customer compliance are met, following the relevant Process Development procedures.


• 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.

Experience and qualifications

• Knowledge of writing specifications for retailers in a food manufacturing environment


• Knowledge of legal labelling legislation and application


• Good level of computer literacy and experience using web-based customer specification systems


• High level of detail


• Excellent communication skills

Who are BBF Limited?

BBF Limited are one of the UK’s leading ambient cake and chilled dessert manufacturers of retailer own label, licensed and branded cakes, supplying recognisable major retailers across the UK and European market.

Our team of experts develop and manufacture a wide range of high-quality ambient cake products across several different categories including celebration cakes, mini rolls, mince pies, fruit pies and a wide range of chilled desserts including cheesecake, crumbles and sponge cakes. These include mince pies, celebration cakes, slab cakes, cupcakes and many more!

We are passionate about our products and aim to put the customer at the heart of everything we do.

With recent investment and acquisitions taking us to nearly 1,400 direct employees, this is an exciting time to join BBF Limited! We are continually looking to grow, but we can only do that with exceptional talent across all levels and disciplines of the business. That is where you come into it!

On top of making some delicious cakes and desserts, we do a lot of fun stuff too! Whether that be Christmas fun days, pancake-flipping competitions, Red Nose Day events or odd-sock days, you’ll be coming to work smiling.

What benefits do we offer?

Financial

• Pension


• 4x Life Assurance/Death in Service Benefit


• Access to ‘Company Shop’ – a discounted re-distributor of surplus food and household products

Health & Wellbeing

• 25 days holiday (plus statutory holidays)


• 24/7 Access to a GP


• 24/7 Bereavement Service

Personal & Professional Development

• Dedicated in-house Learning & Development/Training team


• Online training platform with access to 100+ training courses

A few other bits

• Quarterly and Yearly BBF Star Awards – recognising those who have gone above and beyond!


• Free on-site parking


• Onsite canteen


• Onsite Cake Shop (majorly discounted)

Recruitment Agencies

All our recruitment is managed centrally via the internal recruitment team. We operate a recruitment PSL when we require assistance, and we aren't adding to this at present. Any agency assistance will be instructed accordingly and therefore any CVs sent to any BBF Limited employee will be treated as a gift and won't be liable for a fee. Please don't speculatively contact us about this vacancy or any other vacancy.