Salary: £70k - 80k per year + Benefits package
Job Reference: SF-TECHMGR-89161
Published: 08-10-2024
Duration: Permanent
Expiry Date: 05-11-2024
Country: United Kingdom
A leading FMCG Manufacturer is currently seeking a Technical Manager / Head of Technical to join their Senior Leadership Team. Reporting to the site director, this Technical Manager will implement the company’s technical and quality strategy to ensure they are always audit ready, ensuring the effective management of product safety, authenticity, legality, and quality.
This role will be site-based, so a home base commutable is needed. Dairy, Soups, Sauces, or thermal process & micro experience will be essential, as well as experience in hosting BRC audits.
Technical Manager Responsibilities include:
* Lead technical team to deliver the site business plan
* Work in partnership with HR to ensure the recruitment, retention, and development of technical staff
* Produce and implement an annual training and succession plan
* Ensure all annual PDRs are complete and robust
* Coaching and development on a day-to-day basis
* Manage people performance of the technical function
* Develop multi-skilled resources to support the business
* Collaboratively create, communicate, and drive the site Food Safety & Quality Culture plan
* Create a continuous improvement culture across the technical team bringing examples of best practices and new ideas
* Support the Process Technologist to develop and lead initiatives for the site
* Maximise efficiencies across the site through quality improvement projects
* Work in partnership with SHE to ensure training is maintained and all areas reflect the strong health and safety ethos of the company
* Comply with and enforce business and site-specific food safety/quality, health & safety, and environmental policies and procedures
* Produce and deliver financial budget commitments
* Manage activities ensuring the food safety, authenticity, legality, and quality of products
* Provide technical governance and reporting to the senior management team
* Ensure compliance with legislation, company, accreditation, customer, and good manufacturing practice standards/codes of practice, working in partnership with the central technical function
* Work cross-site in partnership with peers to standardise and share best practices
* Develop and implement the site food safety plan, promoting it to the site management team
* Ensure technical quality and best practice training and promotion across the site
* Train, verify, and support production in recipes, yield management, testing, and analysing samples
* Support independent audits across the company
You will ideally be a degree-qualified Technical Manager with Dairy Manufacturing experience and a proficient understanding & knowledge of dairy/food microbiology. You will have experience of working with multiple retailers and ideally possess your level 3 Food hygiene, level 4 HACCP, as well as being proficient across the Microsoft Office 365 suite.
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