This is a specialist role involving delivery of detailed and accurate master data in Hellenic and supporting on customer, raw material and packaging specifications that meet the high standards and requirements set by our customers. This will involve communicating across various departments to gather the required information, updating the Hellenic systems, and attending regular technical meetings.
Company information
Sofina Foods is more than just a food company. It’s a place where you can grow your career, learn new skills, and make a positive impact on the world.
With a wide range of meat and seafood products that delight consumers worldwide, Sofina Foods is always looking for talented and passionate people to join its team of over 13,000 employees across 40 sites in Canada and Europe, including Young’s Seafood and Karro Food Group.
At Sofina foods you will be part of a culture that values innovation, quality, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. You will also have the opportunity to work with diverse and delicious products that are sourced responsibly and sustainably from over 50 different protein sources from 5 continents.
Sofina Foods has a 25 year history of excellence in the food industry and provides over 500 million meals for the global market every year.
Our vision is to be the most successful food company in the worldIf you are looking for a rewarding and exciting career in the food sector, Sofina Foods is the place for you.
Key accountabilities
- Maintain the label change process, keeping the Hellenic database up to date, maintaining the label change logs and providing label samples.
- Inputting Master data into Hellenic and checkweigher systems.
- Support spec team to maintain signed and agreed Raw Material Specifications, butchery specifications, processing specifications and QAS for all products produced at site and ensure these are regularly reviewed and updated where necessary.
- Maintain the specifications files with the most current, up to date specifications.
- Working closely with the Specifications Coordinator ensuring appropriate sign-off is obtained from them and the Site Operations Team for any changes to labels and specifications.
- Supporting artwork/label sign-off as required to meet deadlines.
- Attending and contributing to technical meetings.
- Attending customer meetings, as required, ensuring all information is accessible and professionally presented.
- Delivering specifications and other paperwork to the factory floor in a timely manner.
- Collecting samples for specification and QAS production.
- Maintaining Technical logs as and when required.
- Any other relevant tasks as deemed necessary.
- Safety in every task – understand and follow all site and department safety standards at all times to ensure the safety of you, all colleagues and visitors.
- Support implementation of new safety initiatives, supporting a best practice approach at all times.
- Near Misses and Accidents fully reported, in an appropriate and timely manner support any improvement actions as required.
- Observe hygiene and cleanliness procedures at all times, ensuring high GMP standards.
- Be approachable, create time to listen to ideas, improvement opportunities and concerns from others.
- Feedback - Act upon feedback from others in a timely manner.
- Courage of your convictions - where you have ideas, improvement opportunities, or concerns, engage with your manager to ensure they are acted upon.
- Role Model to others; adhere to all Company standards, always do the right
- thing.
- Utilisation of site IT systems as required for role to ensure the correct data is captured as appropriate.
- Discipline – follow all company and legal policies, procedures and standards at all times.
- Work to ‘right first time …. every time’.
- Be Effective and efficient.
- Be approachable, create time to listen to ideas, improvement opportunities and concerns from others.
- Feedback - Act upon feedback from others in a timely manner.
- Understand all environmental requirements and how our actions impact the environment. Take immediate actions as appropriate to reduce waste.
- Continually Communicate opportunities to reduce waste with improvements to minimise energy usage, water usage, packaging waste, and product waste.
- Challenge processes and seek improvements to ensure that standards are not only maintained but continually improved.
- Area of work is always set up correctly and tested.
- Work to ‘right first time …. every time’.
- Champion of product quality, Food Safety standards and good practices,
- follow hygiene procedures at all times.
- Compliance to all Hygiene standards, the wearing and ensuring others are wearing the appropriate clothing and Personal Protective Equipment at all times.
- Accurate completion of all documentation in line with site procedure.
- Attend product taste panels.
- Verify that Food Safety and Quality management system is being adhered to.
- Work with the production teams to ensure that the required labels and specifications are in place at all times.
- Raise Improvement Ideas to drive continuous improvement initiatives to deliver more efficient ways of working.
- Authority – have courage to stop any line that may be jeopardising the Safety of the product we produce and withhold product on site until all issues are resolved.
Skills and experience required
- Strong IT skills including use of Microsoft Office Tools i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Ideally, experience of working in the chilled food sector.
- Good communication skills with the capability to communicate confidently internally & externally.
- Good team working skills with ability to work independently.
- Displays strong attention to detail and ability to report accurately.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and a ‘Right First Time’ attitude.
- Good people skills, ability to listen and accept and learn from constructive criticism.
- Good presentation skills and an ability to present information confidently and professionally.
- High levels of professionalism, integrity and ethical awareness.
- Determined and resilient, with the drive to complete tasks.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Company Bonus Scheme
- Car Allowance
- Competitive Contributory Pension
- Online Benefits Hub
- Healthcare
- Life assurance scheme
- Free onsite parking
