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Location

Thrapston, Northamptonshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

About The Role

Our Technical Team is a very important team when it comes to Morrisons Manufacturing. It's down to them to ensure we're legally compliant from a food safety point of view. Our sites are super busy, ever-demanding and our standards are high - keeping our Technical team busy every day. We're looking for a Specification Technologist to join our Thrapston team, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining all specifications and quality attribute sheets across the site.

Other responsibilities will include:

• Ensure all products are suitable for trading and compliant with relevant law
• Maintain the specifications files with the most current, up to date specification
• Manage and issue of manufacturing specifications to factory teams
• Obtaining artwork and ensuring sign-off as required to meet deadlines
• Work with cross functional teams to deliver technical aspects of the process on time
• Attending and contributing to meetings and ensuring all information is accessible
• Building relationships with internal teams in the business to help deliver results

Why not take a look around one of our Manufacturing sites? Click here.

About You

As well as the ability to work at pace, you will also need to have:

• Relevant experience or a degree in science, food technology, or equivalent
• Knowledge of safety, legality, compliance and quality across supply chain and product range
• Previous experience/knowledge of retailer specification systems
• Understanding of BRC requirements
• Strong analytical and decision making skills
• Excellent communication skills and solution focussed problem solver
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and a “right first time” attitude
• Creates a positive and dynamic working environment

In return for your hard work we will offer you:

• Six weeks holiday (including bank holidays)
• 15% discount in our stores available from the day you join us 
• Additional 10% discount More Card for a friend or family member
• Career progression and development opportunities
• Subsidised staff canteen 
• Free parking
• Market leading pension and life assurance
• Healthcare/Well-being benefits including Aviva Digital GP
• Morrisons MyPerks with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more
• Long Service Awards 
• Optional Payroll charity donations 
• Enhanced Family/maternity/parental leave

About the site

About Us Description:

At Thrapston, we produce fruit and nuts for 494 stores and for morrisons.com, which means preparing everything from apples, nuts, seeds, tomatoes, pears, citrus, blueberries, grapes and kiwis - all to help #MakeGoodThingsHappen.

Our team of colleagues work over a 24/7 operation to get cases of fresh food ready for our stores and Morrisons.com every week.

About The Company

From a Bradford market stall to the UK’s 4th largest supermarket chain and the UK's 2nd largest fresh food manufacturer. 

We are proud to be the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK with up to 500 stores and an online home delivery service. Our 18 manufacturing sites provide our customers with the freshest produce from flowers, fish and veg to burgers and bread, all delivered to our stores via our 6 distribution sites by our 2,000 strong fleet.

Every week, 11 million customers pass through our doors and over 110,000 colleagues across the business work hard each day to deliver great service to them. We cover more than 11 million households with our Morrisons.com service. With competitive, permanently low prices we are committed to helping our customers save money every day.

We are foodmakers and shopkeepers and #wemakemorrisons.

Why not hear about what our teams have got to say about life here at Morrisons:  click here

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