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Specification Technologist
Job Posted: 9 hours ago
Salary: £ 30,000 - 36,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Nelson, Lancashire
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Specification Technologist - FTC
Food Manufacturing
Oversees supplier approvals and is responsible for creating, maintaining, and updating specifications for own-label and branded finished products using web-based retailer systems, including artwork sign-off, allergen and nutrition information, to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
* Product Specification Management: Overseeing the development, review, and approval of detailed product specifications, covering ingredients and other relevant factors.
* Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring all product specifications comply with current food safety, quality, nutritional, and legal labelling regulations.
* Project Support: Proactively managing critical path items and addressing issues during the specification-to-launch process to ensure timely and successful product introductions
* Supplier & Customer Liaison: Acting as a key point of contact for both internal and external stakeholders, including suppliers, customers, and technical teams, to resolve issues and manage compliance audits.
* Documentation & Systems: Maintaining accurate, up-to-date documentation and ensuring effective document control and management within relevant systems
* Reviewing artwork against specification, to ensure full compliance with legal and customer specifications.
* Managing and maintaining the raw material and service suppliers approval database, including risk assessment, VACCP, food defence and product authenticity.
* Ensuring retailers technical requests, including customers specifications, questionnaires are responded to promptly
* Provide up to date labelling, nutritional and allergen information on all new product introductions and existing products when label change revision is required
* Ensure technical co-approval of packaging by verifying that artwork aligns with specifications and complies with current market regulations on quality, safety, and labelling.
* Guarantee that all product information, including nutritional data, allergen declarations, and ingredient lists, complies with UK,US,EU food safety legislation and customer-specific standards.
* Support product launches (shelf-life testing and QAS)
* Provide comprehensive documentation and support for customer and third-party audits, such as those for BRC accreditation
* Ensure that all own-label and branded specs are up to date
* Food hygiene level 3 and above
* Relevant industry experience
* Good Communication skills
* Literacy skills
* Numeracy skills
Monday - Friday
OR
Monday - Thursday (Longer days)
FTC - Approx.. 16 Months
Immediate start
£30,000 - £36,000
On-Site - Lancashire
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