Specifications Officer

2 weeks ago


Bradford, United Kingdom Princes Full time

**Vacancy Name**
- Specifications Officer

**Employment Type**
- Permanent

**Country**
- United Kingdom

**Location**
- Bradford

**Business Area**
- Operations

**Workplace Type**
- Hybrid

**About Princes**
- The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.

**Role Description**
- Princes Bradford are recruiting for a Specifications Officer (Quality Administrator) to join the team in Bradford. This is an opportunity to work out of our centre of excellence for Princes Soft Drinks and one of the UK's leading FMCG businesses.**Job Purpose**

You will manage retailers web based specifications for all Princes Soft Drinks Sites (based from our Bradford site) and ensure their accurate and timely submission and update; when process or packaging changes are requested.
- You will assist with the management of Technical and IT related issues within the Bradford site, including issue of product bar codes and factory recipes/specification documents: which assist our factory operatives.
- This position plays a key part in supporting the Bradford site vision, to be the home of operational excellence and the customer’s first choice soft drinks manufacturer.**Working Hours**

This is a Monday - Friday 08.45 - 17.00 position with hybrid working x3 days a week from home.**Benefits**
- Competitive Salary
- 14.5% Company Pension (9.5% Princes Contribution)
- 10% Corporate Incentive Bonus
- 26 days Annual Leave including x1 day for your Birthday + Bank Holidays
- Flexible holidays - the option to buy/sell x5 additional days each year
- Hybrid working
- Critical Illness Cover
- Enhanced Family Friendly Policy

**Principal Responsibilities**
- Have an understanding of the Princes Manufacturing System (PMS) and maturity matrix, and site must win battle plans
- Understand and implement lean manufacturing work practices including 5s, AM, problem solving (including root cause analysis) to drive continuous improvement activity at site
- Participate in external training sessions as and when retailers update their electronic specification systems.
- Participate in product launch meetings and other meetings where key quality and technical information is being briefed.
- Ensure Specifications are submitted on time, in full and retailer KPI’s are fully met for all Soft Drinks products.
- Work with Managers from NPD and ensure that data is transferred onto the production systems, so that product launches are not delayed.
- Issue product launch check-sheets and assist production in ensuring all components and processes have been checked before the launch date.
- Attend product launches with NPD and retailer presence and give Technical support.
- Utilise SAP to up date and create site information to match the specification.
- To assist with the management of supplier approval.
- To manage the complaints systems used on site and to monitor the speed of return of sample reports from the Laboratory to ensure prompt reply to retailers or head office, (this task includes arranging for collections of samples and ensuring accurate letters are produced and promptly sent.
- To re order acid and caustic as required in the absence of the Quality Improvement Leader
- To manage the receipt and storage of certificates of analysis for all raw materials on a weekly basis, which includes liaising with the Goods inwards staff and scanning certificates onto the SAP system
- To assist with general administrative duties such as sending self audit forms to suppliers and managing the tracking systems currently in place. To participate in third party audits when this data is being reviewed.

These are the key daily tasks, not a comprehensive list of all tasks undertaken by the job holder. Flexibility is required by the business & this will be agreed with the individual’s line manager**Role Requirements**
- Degree or HND in Food Science, Food Technology or related discipline preferred, or relevant experience.
- Experience of SAP, CPD, HAMILTON GRANT or equivalent systems is preferable.
- Generic IT Systems experience, ie. Excel, Word etc.
- Accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to produce reports.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to deal with people at all levels within Princes, our supply chain and customer base.
- Good planning and organisation skills.
- In depth understanding of all retailers specification formats and be well versed in use of their electronic databases (e.g. M&S FIND, Tesco TTL, Sainsbury EVOLVE, Morrison’s M CREATE and Asda ASPECT).
- Please note internal job title is Quality Administrator_



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