Technical Artwork & Specification Specialist

Hilton Foods

Location: Estate Road, Grimsby

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 Technical Artwork & Specification Specialist 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 and artwork development
Generation of right first-time specifications that drive right first-time artwork
Responsible for ensuring all new and 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 for other members of the Technical administration team across the business to cover absence or workload.
Management of raw material, finished product and packaging specifications; labels; printed packaging; artwork; legal compliance
Create finished product specifications; review and approve artwork; meet critical paths; retail customer liaison
Complete finished product specifications for retailers and manage systems/processes used to generate finished product packaging
Submit packaging artwork and associated MSC claims for formal approval

To succeed as a Technical Artwork & Specification Specialist, we ask that you have the following experience/expertise:

Experience with retailer specification systems (TQC, WPP advantageous)
Knowledge of Stage and Gate or similar gated process steps
General understanding of factory processes and documentation
Ability to prioritise a ‘changing’ workload
Excellent IT and communication skills
Attention to detail
Strong numeracy and literacy
Methodical approach
Highly organised
Ability to work to deadlines with a key understanding of critical path processes
Food safety awareness
Experience with dealing with customers – internal and external
Consistent approach to work
Clear communication skills
Tenacious
Works well as an individual and within a larger team
Understands the internal and external customer, interprets their needs and provides excellent customer service.

Great package with competitive holiday allowance

Life assurance of minimum two times yearly salary

Opportunities for development and internal promotion

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Free car parking on site

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity