Specifications Technologist
- Employer
- b3 jobs
- Location
- West Midlands Region
- Salary
- £22,000 - £24,000
- Closing date
- 10 Oct 2020
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Function
- Graduate, Technical
- Business Sector
- Food Manufacturing
Job Details
Specifications Technologist
Job ref: 62684 | £22,000 - £24,000 | West Midlands
The company
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading chilled food wholesaler which supplies to the UK foodservice sector. Since the business was founded over 40 years ago, the company has expanded rapidly, constantly increasing its product range to ensure they remain a market leader and the number one choice for customers.
The job
Reporting to the Technical Manager, your job as Specifications Technologist will be to ensure all products supplied by the company comply with food safety, legal and customer requirements through the management of technical documentation and specifications.
Core duties:
- Gather technical information for finished products and ingredients from suppliers, making sure all information is correct and meets due diligence
- Write new specifications for both products manufactured on site plus imported company branded products
- Keep all the specifications updated and edit as necessary
- Document control and storage of specs kept tidy in the system.
- Assist with supplier risk assessment and re-assessment
- Carry out product risk assessment and approval of new products by assessment of all due diligence information
- Regularly liaise with customers, ingredient/packing suppliers to maintain technical information
Your experience
You will ideally be a holder of a food science, food technology, nutrition or related degree and/or possess previous technical/specifications experience within food manufacturing and looking for the next step in your career.
Additional qualifications including Intermediate HACCP and Intermediate Food Safety are highly desirable.
Good IT skills are essential including Microsoft Office.
You will have knowledge of food safety and quality standards, be highly organised plus strong attention to detail and the ability to multi-task.
More details
The Specifications Technologist job is based in the West Midlands region and is paying £22,000 - £24,000 according to individual skills and previous experience.
The working hours are Monday to Friday, 9 am – 5 pm.
How to apply
If this sounds like you and you want to be considered for the Specifications Technologist job, please click the Apply button.
What happens next?
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b3 jobs is a professional, friendly, and progressive food recruitment consultancy established in 2000 dedicated to the food manufacturing industry. We are a market leader for permanent jobs within food and drink manufacturing throughout the UK. All our consultants have considerable recruitment experience so you can be confident they have your best interests at heart when finding the perfect job for you.
Alternate job titles
Technical Administrator | Technical Assistant | Technical Coordinator | Specifications Writer | Food Technologist | Technical Information Officer | Food Manufacturing Technical Graduate Jobs | West Midlands
Company
Since 2000, b3 jobs has been helping to further 1000s of people’s careers within the food manufacturing industry, throughout the whole of the UK. As one of the leading specialist food manufacturing recruitment agencies, b3 jobs cover all disciplines both permanent and interim and from graduates to MD’s,
Our core values are always:
- to find the very best job for you - not us!
- to give you friendly, ethical, honest and expert recruitment services
- to advise and not pressurise, so that you can make the right decisions for you
We genuinely strive to provide you with what you want – a job that not only offers the salary you’re after, but also the career progression and job satisfaction that makes going to work all the more worthwhile. Enough trumpet blowing though – visit our website to read just some of our happy previous candidate testimonials - we are more than happy to let our reputation precede us!
For a full up to date list of our jobs, visit www.b3jobs.co.uk
Food Industry Graduates
If you are graduating soon and looking for your first job in food manufacturing, have a look at our Graduate Resource Hub on the b3 jobs website.
https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/graduates
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- Website
- https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 01435 866000
- Location
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Heffle Buildings
33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
GB
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