Technical Manager

An excellent opportunity for an experienced Technical Manager to join a well-established company.

Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent.

Salary: Competitive Salary, Depending on Experience.

Location: Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU5.

Schedule: Monday – Friday 8am to 5pm.

About The Role:

The company are an AA grade BRCG site and seeking an experienced and highly skilled Food Technical Manager who will be responsible for ensuring that the site and food products are safe, legal, high quality, hygienic and compliant with regulatory, customer, and company standards throughout the site and food supply chain. The role bridges food science, quality assurance, compliance, and operations, acting as the technical authority within our food manufacturing site.

Key Duties:

Technical:

• Manage the company quality systems, ensuring that all documentation, risk assessments, standard operation procedures etc. are reviewed, relevant and compliant, as necessary.
• Ensure that the supply chain is properly maintained and managed, ensuring compliance with company quality systems.
• Understand the key elements of specification, certificate of conformance and other areas so that safety, quality, and legislation are fully complied with through the entire production chain.
• Operate the company internal and supplier audit program ensuring that all non-conformance is reported in a timely manner and that corrective action is carried out as appropriate.
• Ensure that all testing and verification procedures are operated in a correct and timely manner.
• Deal with customer issues including audits, complaints, and technical concession reporting.
• Ensure that the cold chain operates in accordance with the company quality systems.
• Operate a budget such that all technical and QA activities are correctly resourced and operate efficiently.
• Ensure that HACCP is correctly managed such that safety and legality are maintained.
• Organise and chair key technical review meetings including HACCP team meetings.
• Drive site food safety culture in alignment with business key values.
• Manage site microbiological performance through effective root cause analysis and reporting.
• Ensure that all key performance indicators are monitored, reported, and actioned if necessary.
• Ensure quality attributes are maintained accordingly, and prompt actions are taken when necessary to address quality issues.
• Lead preparation for and delivery of audits (BRCGS, regulatory) and act as the site lead for all external and customer audits.

Training:

• Develop, implement, and maintain effective training programs.
• Collaborate with key business leaders and partners utilising key performance indicator data to identify and priorities manufacturing training opportunities.
• Build capability through training on food safety, quality standards, and best practices.
• Develop and maintain documentation, record keeping of training sessions.

General:

• Degree in Food Science, Microbiology, or related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of food safety systems and legislation, HACCP, Food Safety & Hygiene etc.
• Excellent risk assessment and problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail with a commercial mindset.
• Confident communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Leadership and people management capability.

If you feel that you have the relative skills/attributes to fulfil this role then please apply now for immediate consideration.

The employer fully supports Equality in Employment. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit and business need

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