Specification Technologist - 12month FTC

Position Title: Specification Technologist - 12month FTC
Position Type: Temporary - Full-Time
Position Location: Scarborough
Requisition ID: 35626
There's nothing beige about McCain...
Except our potatoes - and we're extremely passionate about them.
When you join McCain, you'll be joining the biggest player in the frozen potato game, bringing people together around the nation for over 60 years by sharing simple, delicious planet friendly food.
We've partnered with thousands of the country's supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, hospitals, and schools to change the way people see the humble spud. It's all about elevation and creating something better.
So, come and make your career at McCain Foods.
About the role
As the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), the Specification Specialist (Scientist) provides technical support for PLM users regionally. This role ensures the integrity of data and specifications for products, ingredients, and packaging, and supports compliance with regulatory standards. This position requires extensive knowledge of specification and data management systems and processes, and it involves establishing and maintaining global best practices that meet local needs.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
1. Specification Management:
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure information and resources support the supply and production of goods to meet specifications, legal requirements, and audit compliance.
- Manage new inspection plans onto SAP through PLM.
- Provide data to support business activities and product information requests.
- Proficiently utilise system functionality to deliver necessary data sets (e.g., NFP, QIP, Ingredient declaration).
- Troubleshoot for end users and other Super Users.
2. PLM Specification Documentation Governance:
- Drive data management of supporting specification evidence through governance of nutritional, shelf-life, microbiological and other R&D validation results in PLM system.
3. Communication:
- Maintain good relationships and communicate internally with project team functions, associated departments, and third-party suppliers or manufacturers.
- Regularly update the Tech Lead on project status and changes to milestones.
- Contribute to global and regional meetings with suggestions and updates.
4. Governance and System Improvement:
- Collaborate with Technical Leads and system users on the continuous improvement of processes related to Specification and Data Management.
- Establish efficient processes for new product creation.
- Support training and onboarding of new PLM users.
- Support maintenance of training materials for PLM.
5. Legal Compliance:
- Ensure local food regulatory requirements and applicable data are uploaded onto PLM files.
- Support the regional Regulatory lead with the development and maintenance of nutritional and ingredient declarations and label sets within PLM.
6. Health & Safety:
- Ensure personal safety and that of all personnel under your authority.
- Establish practices to maintain a safe working environment and hold people accountable for those standards.
- Challenge unsafe behaviours and provide consequences for non-compliance with company H&S policy.
- Adhere to the duties required within the Company Health and Safety policy.
About you
• Academic: Degree in Food Science or equivalent.• Experience: Minimum 2 years of Food Industry experience in Quality, R&D, Regulatory, or Data Management. PLM system knowledge preferred. Hands-on experience in creating ingredient, process, and product specifications. Experience in both branded and own label food companies is ideal.
Competencies and Skills:
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.• High attention to detail and ability to drive engagement.• Ability to learn and adapt quickly, presenting solutions, not problems.• Flexibility and ability to handle multiple tasks competently.• Strong collaboration skills and customer focus.• Systematic, logical, and organized approach to work.• Ability to work across regions and adapt to different cultures.• Focus on actions and outcomes, demonstrating courage and resilience.• Ensures accountability and curiosity to seek better ways of working.
What's in it for me?
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you'll be pleased to know we don't pay you in chips. For working hard, you'll also get a great salary and some pretty good benefits including:
• An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay • Flexible holidays - where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year • Optional health cash plan • Cycle to work scheme • 'Chips In' Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the long-term development of McCain communities across the globe
And of course, being part of a Global business there are great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future. We have an impressive 5 year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out.
WHERE YOU'LL WORK:
Experience Centre:
Being in the office every single day is a thing of the past. Here at McCain, we champion hybrid working. This means we don't have a set expectation of exactly when you need to be in the office - however we do encourage our full-time, office-based people to connect in person with others for around half of their working time as that's the best way for us to build and maintain our connections. Our head office (Customer Experience Centre) is on the outskirts of Scarborough - 1.5 hours away from Leeds City Centre, and about an hour from York. We have lots of colleagues who travel to and from our Experience Centre (even if it is just for a good coffee!) and because hybrid really does mean hybrid at McCain, they get the opportunity to collaborate with their colleagues when they're in the office, and balance that with working from home to ensure they get a good life-work balance.
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Job Family: Research & Development
Division: Global Research and Development
Department: Potato
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Scarborough || GB - United Kingdom : England : York*
Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd