Why Greencore?
We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.
We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer, employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from sandwiches, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.
Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.
Here at Northampton, we operate one of the most impressive facilities in Europe, based across a campus of 5 manufacturing units, and we have a team of around 2,000 colleagues making high-quality premium products every day. We are the sole supplier of sandwiches, wraps, rolls, and sushi for Marks & Spencer.
What You'll Be Doing
As Technical Manager, you will manage the technical function within your manufacturing unit, ensuring all materials, including finished products, are safe and conform to all relevant specifications, legislation, and customer requirements.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Ensure the operational process and production of finished goods are appropriately controlled, via HACCP, to ensure compliance with food safety and customer standards.
2. Ensure that technical governance is in place to deliver audit compliance with respect to internal, external, legal, and customer requirements.
3. Investigate key deviations from process and customer specifications, taking appropriate action to bring the process back into control.
4. Monitor departmental key performance indicators and challenge improvement when required to ensure targets are achieved and improved.
5. Interface with customers during site visits and audits, business reviews, and other key opportunities.
6. Provide leadership and direction to ensure that within the function, people are kept safe, engaged, focused, developed, and delivering to their potential.
7. Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set out in the Health, Safety, and Environment policy.
8. Visit the M&S Head Office in London once every 3 weeks as part of this role.
What we're looking for
We're not all the same at Greencore, and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diverse workforce.
Desired qualifications and experience include:
1. Educated to degree level with a specialism in Food Science, Food Technology, or a Microbiological qualification.
2. Relevant qualifications: Advanced food hygiene level 4 or equivalent, level 3 HACCP certified, level 2 health and safety, sensory training level 2, and microbiological training level 3.
3. Allergen awareness/practical knowledge of the management of allergens.
4. Experience of working at technologist level with retailers; expertise in interpretation of customer code of practice and competent in the use of customer technical databases.
5. Demonstrable experience of maintaining an internal audit program and quality management system.
6. Experience in technical strategy implementation and delivery of BRC certification and/or equivalent certification standards.
7. A skilled problem solver with demonstrable experience of using root cause analysis techniques.
8. Experience of managing supplier auditors.
9. Ability to evaluate and interpret shelf-life results.
10. Experience of applying food legislation to manufacturing practice.
If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.
What you'll get in return
Competitive salary and job-related benefits:
1. Holidays
2. Pension up to 8% matched
3. Life insurance up to 4x salary
4. Company share save scheme
5. Greencore Qualifications
6. Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
7. Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career. #J-18808-Ljbffr