Specification Technologist Job Grimsby area,England UK,Quality Assurance

Role title:
Specification Technologist

Location:

Grimsby, both sites (primarily ER2 site)

Shift: Monday-Friday 08:00-16:00, some flexibility might be required

Salary:
Competitive

Purpose of the role:

To ensure that the business meets its own, customer and legal requirements, through accurate, approved and agreed specifications

To ensure that the business maintains customer and internal stakeholder satisfaction through prompt and accurate specification completion.

As a Specification Technologist some of the responsibilities will be to:

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 development
Generation of right first-time specifications that drive right first-time artwork
Responsible for ensuring all newand 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 forother members of the Technical administration team across the business tocover absence or workload.

To succeed as a Specification Technologist, weask that you have the following experience/expertise:

Experience with retailer specification systems (TQC, WPP advantageous)
Knowledge of Stage and Gate orsimilar gated process steps
General understanding of factory processes and documentation
Food safety awareness
Experience with dealing with customers – internal and external
Clear communication skills
Understands the internal and external customer, interprets their needs and provides excellent customer service.

Whatyou get in return: