Technical Artwork & Specification Specialist

Hilton Food Group; Grimsby; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great holiday package

Life assurance

Share Save scheme

Free car parking on site

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity

Enhanced maternity/paternity

Job summary

Hilton Food Group seeks a Technical Artwork & Specification Specialist to ensure accurate, compliant product specifications and artwork across retailer platforms. You will collaborate with concept, process and technical teams to gather information and generate right first-time specifications for finished products and packaging.

The role requires strong IT skills, attention to detail and excellent communication, with the ability to work to deadlines in a fast-paced manufacturing environment on

Qualifications

• Experience with retailer specification systems (TQC, WPP advantageous).
• Knowledge of Stage and Gate or similar gated process steps.
• General understanding of factory processes and documentation.
• Ability to prioritise a changing workload.
• Excellent IT and communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Strong numeracy and literacy.
• Methodical approach.
• Highly organised.
• Ability to work to deadlines with understanding of critical paths.
• Food safety awareness.
• Experience dealing with customers – internal and external.

Responsibilities

• Support generation and maintenance of Manufacturing specifications aligned to Finished product specifications.
• Create and maintain accurate customer specifications on relevant platforms.
• Gather, interpret and check information through specification and artwork development.
• Generate right first-time specifications that drive right first-time artwork.
• Ensure all specifications and artwork comply with policy, legislation and customer guidelines.
• Create finished product specifications and review artwork; meet critical paths.
• Maintain specification tracker and provide cover for team as needed.
• Manage raw material, finished product and packaging specifications; labels and artwork.
• Prepare routine internal and customer reports related to specifications.
• Maintain the specification tracker and track review dates.
• Provide cover for other Technical administration team when needed.
• Manage raw material, finished product and packaging specs; labels; artwork; compliance.
• Create finished product specs; review artwork; meet critical paths; liaise with retailers.
• Submit packaging artwork and MSC claims for formal approval.

Skills

Excellent IT skills

Strong communication

Attention to detail

Numeracy and literacy

Methodical approach

Highly organised

Ability to meet deadlines

Teamwork and independence

Customer service focus

Deadline management

Food safety

Customer service

Consistency

Clear communication

Tenacious

Teamwork

Customer focus

Tools

TQC

WPP

Job description

Role title: Technical Artwork &Specification Specialist Location: Estate Road, Grimsby Shift: Monday-Friday 08:00-17:00 Salary: Competitive

Purpose of the role:

To ensure that thebusiness meets its own, customer and legal requirements, through accurate,approved and agreed specifications To ensure that thebusiness maintains customer and internal stakeholder satisfaction throughprompt and accurate specification completion.

As a Technical Artwork & SpecificationSpecialist some of the responsibilities will beto:

• - Support in the generation and maintenance of Manufacturing specifications ensuring they are accurately aligned to the Finished product (customer) specification.
• - Creation and maintenance of accurate customer specifications on the relevant customer platforms.
• - Work closely with the concept, process and technical teams to gather, interpret and check relevant information through specification and artwork development
• - Generation of right first-time specifications that drive right first-time artwork
• - Responsible for ensuring all new and existing product specifications and artwork are in line with relevant policy, legislation and customer guidelines.
• - Creation of accurate and fully populated own brand specifications and pack copies
• - Cross checking new internal factory specifications provided by the NPD department and subsequent maintenance of live factory specifications
• - Overview of the Raw material, factory, QAS and finished product specifications to ensure that the information within them is accurate, correctly translated and aligned across them.
• - Preparation of routine internal and customer reports as required relating to specifications.
• Part of the artwork sign off team
• - Maintenance of a specification tracker, visible to the Technical team, that lists at which stage each specification is sitting and when it is due for a review
• - To provide cover as required for other members of the Technical administration team across the business to cover absence or workload.
• - Management of raw material, finished product and packaging specifications; labels; printed packaging; artwork; legal compliance
• - Create finished product specifications; review and approve artwork; meet critical paths; retail customer liaison
• - Complete finished product specifications for retailers and manage systems/processes used to generate finished product packaging
• - Submit packaging artwork and associated MSC claims for formal approval

To succeed as a Technical Artwork &Specification Specialist, we ask that you have the followingexperience/expertise:

• - Experience with retailer specification systems (TQC, WPP advantageous)
• - Knowledge of Stage and Gate or similar gated process steps
• - General understanding of factory processes and documentation
• - Ability to prioritise a ‘changing’ workload
• - Excellent IT and communication skills
• - Attention to detail
• - Strong numeracy and literacy
• - Methodical approach
• - Highly organised
• - Ability to work to deadlines with a key understanding of critical path processes
• - Food safety awareness
• - Experience with dealing with customers – internal and external
• - Consistent approach to work
• - Clear communication skills
• - Tenacious
• - Works well as an individual and within a larger team
• - Understands the internal and external customer, interprets their needs and provides excellent customer service.

Whatyou get in return:

• Great package with competitive holiday allowance
• Life assurance of minimum two times yearly salary
• Opportunities for development and internal promotion
• Share Save scheme
• Free car parking on site
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity