Specification Technologist

Location: Lightbody of Hamilton, Hamilton
Shift: Monday – Friday
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
We have an exciting opportunity for a Specification Technologist to join our team.
Finsbury Food Group is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards, and build long-term relationships with major multiple retailers and the foodservice channel. The bread for your morning toast, ready for butter-spreading or egg-dipping. The candle-filled centrepiece for a memorable celebration. The buns, muffins and other treats that turn teatime into quality time. We make a large percentage of the UK’s sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes This is what we do, and why we’re in business. Baking brilliance makes every day special.

This is what you’ll actually do!
As a Specification Technologist, you’ll play a key role in bringing new and exciting products to market, ensuring every product is supported by accurate, compliant and customer-ready information throughout the development process.
From the moment a new product is approved, you’ll take ownership of the specification process, ensuring all product information, ingredient declarations, nutritional data and customer documentation are accurate, compliant and delivered on time. Your work will be critical in helping products move smoothly from concept through to successful launch.
You’ll create and maintain product specifications, pack copy and customer submission documentation across retailer systems and internal databases, ensuring everything reflects the latest approved recipes, ingredients and processes.
Working closely with colleagues across NPD, Technical, Quality, Commercial and Operations, you’ll build strong relationships, manage priorities, resolve queries and keep projects on track by communicating progress, risks and key deadlines. With multiple projects running at once, no two days are ever quite the same.
You’ll also review packaging artwork and labelling information, helping to ensure products meet legal requirements, customer expectations and company standards before launch.
Alongside your day-to-day responsibilities, you’ll contribute to continuous improvement activities, helping to drive greater efficiency, accuracy and compliance across specification processes.
This role offers the chance to broaden your technical knowledge, work with a wide range of stakeholders and gain valuable experience across the product development process. If you’re curious, motivated and eager to learn, there’s plenty of opportunity to develop and make a real impact.
Ideally this is you!
• Degree-level qualification in Food Science, Food Technology, Nutrition or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience
• Experience within food manufacturing or FMCG
• Experience working with customers and a variety of internal stakeholders
• Knowledge of specifications, food labelling and technical documentation
• Understanding of HACCP principles and food safety management systems
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, with excellent administrative and organisational skills
• Able to manage multiple priorities and work to tight deadlines
• High attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy, food safety, legality and quality
• Proactive, motivated and willing to get involved
• Keen to learn, develop and contribute as part of a collaborative team
This role would suit someone who is eager to learn, enjoys working with people and takes pride in getting the details right. Whether you’re already working in specifications or looking to build on your food manufacturing experience, we’d love to hear from you. Previous specification experience isn’t essential, as you’ll receive full training and support from an experienced team.

What’s in it for you?
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Death in Service Benefit
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products!)
• Employee Recognition Awards· Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!
Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!