Aleksandra Gniazdowska
Rassau Ebbw Vale
Summary
I am an ambitious and focused individual who is self-driven.
Technical specifications, Quality assurance, daily Planning and a keen eye for detail, this coupled with my good excel knowledge are my key area of expertise, I have experience in FMCG industry and have built a strong reputation for success within the technical and planning departments, with that in mind I plan to use these skills to sustain a challenging yet rewarding position. I am looking for a role that is not only a challenge but offers the opportunity for progression. My primary focus is customer satisfaction and ensuring I have delivered exactly what the customer needed at all times. Being part of a team that works together to make tomorrow better than today.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Development Coordinator
SHfoodie
Tintern
09.2025 - Current
- Coordinates all technical and development administration, including all legal customer and company requirements.
- Managing the development team with ingredient sourcing from accredited suppliers to BRC / ISO / ILS / FDA standards and approval.
- Managing the scale up team with ingredients, quotes and orders.
- Manage all samples and results for all customer laboratory work.
- Control of all customer ingredient portals.
- Control all customer specifications.
- Verification of all customer specifications and artwork.
- Control and investigation of ingredient compliance and legal requirements.
- Co-ordination and management of the weekly development and project log.
Specification Technologist
Fox's Burton's Biscuit Co.
Llantarnam
08.2024 - 09.2025
- Reporting to the Senior Specification Technologist
- Complete technical information requested by our customers to ensure correct information is presented at sample submission through to finished product specifications.
- Assist the R&D function to load recipes on to our internal database in order to generate on pack information and check nutritional data for compliance.
- Generate and check pack copy specifications and sign off all artworks and physical packaging to ensure legal compliance and adherence to customer policies within specified timeframes.
- Work with internal Brand teams to ensure consistency across our key brands.
- Manage and maintain internal systems and records for compliance.
- Attend team and site meetings and share information as required.
- Coordinate product lock at point of artwork generation to identify project risks and flag to the project team.
- Handle queries for both internal and external customers e.g. on ingredient composition.
- Obtain ingredients audit and regulatory certificates as required and supply to customers and export authorities.
Compliance and Specification Technologist
Kepak Food Group
Merthyr Tydfil
06.2022 - 08.2024
- Managing the due diligence process for all suppliers and customers.
- Managing updates for all site work instructions, policies, processes and the site QMS.
- Managing third party suppliers food safety certificates, raw material specifications.
- Responsible for creating and managing manufacturing specifications and timely accurate updating of customer specifications which are the output of new and existing product developments.
- Check and approve label artwork on pack copy information and relevant customer standards and codes of practice.
- To verify printed labels on delivery to ensure they reflect approved artwork.
- Responsible for timely checking of internal specifications and facilitating operational specification reviews.
- Manage raw material specifications and associated documents from suppliers.
- Liaising with the New Product Development team in obtaining information to ensure artworks and specs are in place following a critical path to product launch.
- Reporting to site Technical Service Manager.
Technical Lead / Quality Manager
Kepak Food Group
Merthyr Tydfil
02.2021 - 06.2022
- Direct reporting to Site Technical Manager.
- Responsible for auditing production areas, hygiene, GMP, internal system audits.
- Identify areas of non-conformance and conformance with customer and legislative requirements.
- Responding to customer complaints, communicate, trend and helping the team to find true root cause and preventive action.
- Coordinate non-conformance findings including actions taken and report to relevant department managers, review trending of non-conformances.
- Responsible for CCP, product and process inspections: Ensure that all checks are completed at the required time intervals and to the required standard.
- Verify all label information to ensure compliance with both customer and legal requirements.
- Responsible for product quality, testing and assessments, ensure that all raw materials and finished products fully comply with specifications and quality documentation and recommend improvement opportunities.
- Generate, update and audit all customer legal specifications.
- Generate and check artwork on printed packaging and labels to ensure compliance with customer and legal requirements.
- Overall responsibility for raw material and specification approval for the site.
- Responsible for label claims and verification.
- HACCP and Quality Systems: Be an active and key member of the HACCP team and assist in the delivery of the HACCP and Food Safety Management Systems.
Technical Operations Manager
Hilton Food Group SVCuisine
06.2020 - 02.2021
- Reporting directly into the Site Technical Manager.
- Responsible for the maintenance of the site Technical Systems / Quality Management Systems.
- Responsible for new product set ups on all systems - Master Data, FOPS, Innova, ACS, BOM's.
- Management of Customer Specification & Artwork Critical Pathways.
- Generate, update and audit all customer legal specifications.
- Generate and check artwork on printed packaging and labels to ensure compliance with customer and legal requirements.
- Overall responsibility for raw material and specification approval for the site.
- Supplier Approval / Supplier Risk Assessments.
- Foods Connect Management.
- Manage and coordinate range change requirements internally and externally.
- Supporting data validation in all departments.
- Manage document control.
- Support as required on quality systems procedures and internal audit programmes, drive improvements on systems.
- Customer / Retail COPs / GAP Analysis.
- Risk assessments.
- Deputy for the Technical Manager.
Specification Technologist
Hilton Food Group SVCuisine
03.2019 - 06.2020
- Generate, update and audit all customer legal specifications.
- Generate and check artwork on printed packaging and labels to ensure compliance with customer and legal requirements.
- Manage raw material specifications and associated documents from suppliers.
- Liaising with the development and process team in obtaining information to ensure artworks and specs are in place following a critical path to product launch.
- Maintaining and updating factory documentation relating to the specifications.
- Assisting with customer requests for information.
Quality Assurance
Hilton Foods Group
08.2015 - 03.2019
- Reporting into the Site Quality Manager/ Technical Service Manager.
- Responsible for the awareness and continual improvement for Food Safety and Quality Standards across the business.
- GMP audits, Process audits, Product quality audits, Quality Management System audits, Supplier audits, KPI standards.
- Managing and monitoring the quality of raw materials and finished products.
- Supporting Operations with regards to improving production and quality performance, staff training for food hygiene and quality standards.
- Also supported the production planning, process control and total Quality Management group functions.
- Managing and monitoring raw materials and finished product quality.
- Supervising the manufacturing processes to ensure that the company standards are being adhered.
- Continuous Supporting the production team with regards to improving production efficiency and product quality.
- Responsibilities also included staff training for personal hygiene and food hygiene improving site GMP standards and promoting food safety across the business.
Education
Master's Degree - Physical Education and Management of Sport and Recreation
University of Kazimierz Wielki
07-2013
First Degree - Physical Education and Management of Sport and Recreation
University of Kazimierz Wielki
01-2012
Secondary Education to A level standard - Geography, History and Science
Lyric Secondary School of Michalowska
01-2009
Secondary Education to GCSE standard - all subjects including Maths, Geography, History and Science
Lyric Secondary School of Michalowska
01-2006
Skills
- HACCP Level 3
- VACCP
- TACCP
- Food hygiene Level 3
- Food safety Level 3
- Team management
- Quality control
- Organizational skills
- Communication skills
- Problem management
- Leadership
- Allergen management
- Packaging expertise (MAP)
- Packaging expertise (VAC)
- Packaging expertise (skin retail vacuum packaging)
- Foods connected champion
- Hamilton grant champion
- Food information controls and responsibilities
- Customer complaint resolution
- Business improvement strategies
- Training for trainers
- Internal and external auditing experience
Timeline
Technical Development Coordinator
SHfoodie
09.2025 - Current
Specification Technologist
Fox's Burton's Biscuit Co.
08.2024 - 09.2025
Compliance and Specification Technologist
Kepak Food Group
06.2022 - 08.2024
Technical Lead / Quality Manager
Kepak Food Group
02.2021 - 06.2022
Technical Operations Manager
Hilton Food Group SVCuisine
06.2020 - 02.2021
Specification Technologist
Hilton Food Group SVCuisine
03.2019 - 06.2020
Quality Assurance
Hilton Foods Group
08.2015 - 03.2019
Master's Degree - Physical Education and Management of Sport and Recreation
University of Kazimierz Wielki
First Degree - Physical Education and Management of Sport and Recreation
University of Kazimierz Wielki
Secondary Education to A level standard - Geography, History and Science
Lyric Secondary School of Michalowska
Secondary Education to GCSE standard - all subjects including Maths, Geography, History and Science
Lyric Secondary School of Michalowska