Specification Specialist

**About High Liner** **Foods**

High Liner Foods was founded in **1899** in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada as a small salt fish company. Lunenburg is still the current home of our Canadian Operations. As a category leader in Seafood, High Liner Foods has a strong footprint across Canada and the U.S. with close to $1 billion in sales.

High Liner Foods is the seafood brand people trust. Every day we’re _Reimagining Seafood to Nourish Life_ through a focus on our customers, innovation, and of course, responsible operations. Our talented team is committed to the High Liner Foods goal of becoming the leader in branded, value-added seafood in North America.

We offer professional, technical and operational career opportunities across Canada and the United States. We believe in building a high-performance organization by investing in our people. We are focused on developing future leaders from within and fostering career growth and advancement.

It’s our time to make waves. Join us.

**High Liner Foods is a career destination. We look for high performing talent who value**:

- Safety; it’s our #1 priority
- Opportunities to contribute to your community through volunteerism
- A culture of inclusion, support and recognition
- Senior leaders that are highly accessible and available to employees
- A strong focus on education and career development through training
- Competitive salary and performance rewards
- A comprehensive benefit plan designed to keep up with the changing healthcare needs across North America

**Position Summary**:
The Specification Specialist will assist with US and Canada product specification work for all High Liner Foods products. Working closely with product development, manufacturing, and marketing to create, update or maintain individual product specifications within the HLF Global Spec Management (GSM) System. The Specification Specialist will work with an acute attention to detail and accuracy as the specifications are the driver of the manufacturing process detailing key product attributes, quality and operational parameters.

**What to expect on the job**:

- Support the work flow process to create, update and maintain HLF product specifications within the company-wide specification system. Specifications include raw material, raw ingredient, packaging, work-in-progress, finished product and trade or sales specs.
- Manage the assigned projects with a high degree of focus, and a sense of urgency, aligned with company and departmental priorities.
- Ensure consistency and compliance with procedural expectations.
- Support the innovation process and participate in new product or product optimization teams representing the specification function.
- Initiate & delegate to product management/product owner to investigate when challenges, disconnects or incomplete information are received.
- Provide specifications and technical information to stakeholders when needed.
- Update customer databases with new and updated specifications as appropriate.
- Ability to coordinate and see through to completion multiple projects/tasks.
- Establish and maintain competency in all aspects of the specification process to provide vacation coverage and additional support for priority projects.
- Support non-conformance investigations and crisis management process as process owner of the specification system.
- Identify process and procedural improvement opportunities.

**Must haves**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Science or related field
- Minimum 2- 3 years in Consumer Packaged Goods experience, specifications management, database administrator or equivalent.
- Must be a highly organized team player with strong critical thinking skills and an acute attention to detail and accuracy.
- Positive and self-starter attitude with a strong sense of urgency.
- Ability to adapt to shifting priorities and manage multiple projects with competing deadlines in a fast paced environment
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written), including the ability to communicate complex regulatory and scientific issues in simple terms.
- Proficient in MS Office Products (i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Genesis and PLM software.

**Health, Safety & Wellness**

At High Liner Foods, we believe strongly in the safety and wellness of our employees. Our organization has a number of policies, programs and practices that focus on safety, wellness, health and sustainability of the overall organization. Company employees, including temporary/agency and contract workers, are required to provide proof of their full COVID-19 vaccination status if their role requires business travel by a means requiring vaccination (including, but not limited to, international air travel and/or domestic air and rail travel within Canada) per regional laws/regulations. Employees will be considered fully vaccinated if they have received the required number of doses of a vaccine which has been approved by the health authority o