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Specifications & Technical Assistant

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
Greater Manchester
Salary
£20,000 - £25,000
Closing date
1 Aug 2021

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Technical
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Specifications & Technical Assistant

Job ref: 62910 | £20,000 - £25,000 | Greater Manchester            

The company

This long-established business is one of the largest premier manufacturers in the UK within their sector. Their passion lies in tradition, using the best ingredients to make delicious products, enjoyed by a wide range of customers in the UK and overseas.

The job

The purpose of the Specifications & Technical Assistant to create and maintain specifications for raw material, packaging and finished products plus support the wider technical team as required with technical administration duties.

Core duties:

  • Complete specifications to the required standards for retail, cash & carry and foodservice customers using customer and generic specifications software.
  • Use Nutricalc to generate nutritional tables, ingredient declarations and recipe formulations.
  • Assist the technical team during customer visits and audits.
  • Generate and maintain controlled recipes, shelf-life data, organoleptic standards, cooking validations and artwork.
  • Support customer complaints investigations.
  • Manage and complete all customer information requests.

Your experience

Food industry technical and specifications experience is essential. You will have full working knowledge of customer specifications systems such as MCreate, Authenticate, Erudus, Hamilton Grant, Brakes Assure, Aldi Portal, Ashbury etc.

Ideally HACCP trained, you will have excellent organisations skills, be a strong communicator and good knowledge of customer and third-party regulatory standards.

This role also requires someone proactive and happy working both in the office and the food production environment – passionate about ensuring products are safe, legal, and compliant.

More details

The Specifications & Technical Assistant job is based in Lancashire and is paying £20,000 - £25,000 according to experience.

The working hours are Monday to Friday.

How to apply

To be considered for the Specifications & Technical Assistant job, please click the Apply button.

What happens next?

On applying for this job, you consent to b3 jobs ltd holding your details on file to be able to contact you about your job search, for full details of our GDPR policy, please refer to the b3 jobs website. We aim to contact you within 24 hours on the assumption that your credentials fit the requirements for the role.

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

Food Industry Technical Jobs | Specifications Writer | Specifications Technologist | Food Specifications Writer | Technical Coordinator | Technical Administrator | Lancashire | Food Manufacturing Jobs

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

Here you will find everything you need to get started on searching for a new position, from CV and cover letter writing tips, sample food industry job descriptions, informative and entertaining blog posts, useful links and even live graduate vacancies you can apply for.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01435 866000
Location
Heffle Buildings
33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
GB

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