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Major Recruitment are recruiting for an experienced Packaging Administrator to join a well-established food manufacturing client in Leeds. With nearly 200 years of heritage, our client is a family-run business has built a strong reputation, producing well-known brands for leading supermarkets across the UK.
The main purpose of the role is to provide support to our clients packaging function which sits within the Procurement team, this is a great opportunity for the right person.
Immediate starts available!
Why work for our client?
- 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- Progression opportunities.
- Salary in the region of 26K
- Great canteen onsite
- Pension Scheme
- 1 year contract
- Standard hours are 9 am - 3 pm, flexibility available
- Access to Training Programs
- Hybrid opportunity after initial training
- Christmas savings club
- Immediate openings available for suitable candidates
- Hapi benefits platform (Gym discounts plus more)
Key Responsibilities:
- Complete with new codes and maintain the packaging specification system, ensuring new specifications along with supporting supplier documents are kept current and in date. ( BRC, SAQ's, RA's, etc.)
- Submit packaging waste data via relevant retailer portals ensuring 100% completion and accuracy.
- Complete new and amend existing New Product Release Forms ensuring accuracy of information and timely completion of the Technical and Procurement Sections in order to hit launch dates.
- Support the technical team in responding to retailer packaging specification queries and supplier approval/conformance queries.
- Liaise with suppliers to order, collate, collect and send packaging samples or trial materials for either internal use or submission to customers.
- Support investigation into non-conforming and hold items of packaging, communicating to suppliers and pursuing root cause investigations, hold close out and preventative actions.
- Supply specification and traceability information with urgency during customer and 3rd party audits.
- Complete any ad hoc retailer packaging data requests.
- Keep up to date with new packaging legislation and innovations.
- Support with the creation of the CAPE plan
- Maintain the Inbound Import database, assist with any Import queries
- Assist with the completion of Costings when this is required
- Support on material expediting when required
- Support on Procurement and Technical led Projects
Personal profile and role requirements
- The ideal candidate will have gained work experience within a packaging environment or be working towards a diploma with a bias towards packaging technology and;
- Have good communication skills - both verbal and written.
- Be numerate and able to understand and read data.
- Enjoy problem solving.
- Be organised with the ability to prioritise.
- Be detail orientated.
- Be IT literate (Excel, Word, Sage etc).
- Be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
- Hold a UK driving licence and flexibility working on all the Symington's sites when required
If you are intrigued by this opportunity, kindly submit your updated CV to apply. If you have been successful, you will hear back within 2 days.
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