Technical Assistant

2 weeks ago


Coventry, United Kingdom Handmade Speciality Products Ltd. Full time

Handmade Speciality Products is a family-owned bakery manufacturer, operating out of a BRC A grade production facility in Coventry. From humble beginnings making a small range of flapjacks in a kitchen in 1987, our company soon became a market leader in single serve flapjacks, muffins, biscuits and cake slices. Today, Handmade specialises in supplying both private label and in-house branded ranges across the UK and Europe. We have customers in both the retail and foodservice sectors, including national retail chains, wholesalers and independents. Our forward-thinking team are passionate about our products and customers, focused on being great innovators through NPD. The company is continuing to grow with ambitious plans to better our offering and service, supported by a very experienced senior team with long bakery backgrounds. Being privately owned the company benefits from continual investment in both our factory and people.

The Technical Assistant function at Handmade is working within the technical team providing advice relating to scientific, technical and legislative issues. Their key responsibility is to support the team and business in understanding current food safety laws and packaging requirements. Key responsibilities of the job are as follows:

- Day to day maintenance of quality systems and procedures ensuring compliance to BRC and customer standards
- Review and approve packaging details and artwork. Ensure legislative are met
- Have experience of using customer portals
- Develop and maintain Technical databases and spreadsheets
- Train, develop, coach and motivate staff on various procedures and policies within various departments
- Support the QA and Spec Tech teams on queries
- Assist as and when with updating supplier information
- Lead traceability exercises
- Update and monitor document control
- Monitoring of calibration and scheduling of equipment on site
- Monitor all results received from external laboratory and action accordingly raising NC if any results are out of specification. Request results if they haven’t been received within correct time frame
- Investigation of customer complaints ensuring responses and corrective actions are completed.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temp to perm
Contract length: 12 months

**Salary**: £24,000.00-£27,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Food industry: 3 years (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 19/04/2024
Reference ID: Technical Assistant



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