Senior Packaging Technologist

2 weeks ago

Blackburn with Darwen, United Kingdom BBF Limited Full time

**Senior Packaging Technologist**

**BBF Limited**

**Blackburn, Lancashire**

**Full-time, Permanent**

Due to growth within the business, we are excited to announce we are recruiting a Senior Packaging Technologist to be based at our Blackburn site on a full-time, permanent basis.

**Who are we looking for?**

We are looking for a creative and well-organised individual with excellent attention to detail. You will have experience working with a variety of packaging materials, ideally within the food manufacturing industry (foil, plastic trays, cartons, printed cardboard). You will have a passion for packaging, print or reprographics and come from a background in design & print.

A confident communicator, you will be able to liaise with packaging suppliers and retailers in a professional manner and effectively work with them to ensure a quality packaging product is produced within specification and pricing.

It would be highly advantageous if you held an IoPP or IOM3 qualification, however, this is not essential.

**The role of a Senior Packaging Technologist**
- Leading the review, approval and issue of all printer specifications for artwork build
- Leading the review, issuing and approving all packaging recycling data for artwork and retailer submission
- Lead the issuing of line drawings for all primary and outer case packaging
- Liaise with all artwork, retailer reprographic houses, printers, packaging suppliers and internal stakeholders
- Lead the critical paths ensuring timelines and FTP Dates are adhered to
- Generate new Packaging Codes for Packaging Handover documentation
- Lead the origination and issue of Packaging Handover briefs for BOM’s
- Lead any technical and print issues
- Communicate on status of projects to the wider team on a regular basis along with trial reporting to PDC teams and management
- Ensure accurate costing submissions.
- Lead the management of the Packaging Specification Database, line drawing and pallet plan library ensuring all information is readily available and approved for retailer audits
- Raise and manage Purchase Orders for all artwork, reprographic, cutting forms, dies, stereos, tooling and plates and all other costs associated with print and packaging design origination
- Lead packaging and NPD trials
- Lead press approvals
- Approve supplier LSD colour standard submissions
- Recommending and actively leading any site/group costing-saving opportunities.
- Ensure that all SKUs are at the optimized specification and avoiding proliferation of formats.
- Lead the implementation and sharing of best practice across the group while educating and advising stakeholders at all levels.

**Who are BBF Limited?**

BBF Limited are one of the UK’s leading ambient cake and chilled dessert manufacturers of retailer own label, licensed and branded cakes, supplying recognisable major retailers across the UK and European market.

Our team of experts develop and manufactures a wide range of high-quality ambient cake products across several different categories including celebration cake, mini rolls, mince pies, fruit pies and a wide range of chilled desserts including cheesecake, crumbles and sponge cakes. These include mince pies, celebration cakes, slab cakes, cupcakes and many more

We are passionate about our products and aim to put the customer at the heart of everything we do.

With recent investment and acquisitions taking us to nearly 1,400 direct employees, this is an exciting time to join BBF Limited We are continually looking to grow, but we can only do that with exceptional talent across all levels and disciplines of the business. That is where you come into it

On top of making some really tasty cakes and desserts, we do a lot of fun stuff too Whether that be Christmas fun days, pancake-flipping competitions, Red Nose Day events or odd-sock days, you’ll be coming to work smiling.

**What do you get in return?**

Financial
- Competitive salary DOE
- Pension
- 4x Life Assurance/Death in Service Benefit
- Access to the company Benefits Hub
- Access to ‘Company Shop’ - a discounted re-distributor of surplus food and household products

Health & Wellbeing
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to meditation and well-being app
- Hybrid & flexible working

Personal & Professional Development
- Dedicated in-house Learning & Development/Training team
- Online training platform with access to 100+ training courses

A few other bits
- Free on-site parking
- Free refreshments

**Recruitment Agencies**

We operate a recruitment PSL when we require assistance, and we aren't adding to this at present. Any agency assistance will be instructed accordingly and therefore any CVs sent to any BBF Limited employee will be treated as a gift and won't be liable for a fee. Please don't speculatively contact us in relation to this vacancy or any other vacancy.

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