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Site Technical Manager - Leading Growing Food Manufacture - BIG GROWTH
* Reporting directly to the Managing Director
* Based in the Shrewbury Area
* Senior Leadership Team / Main Technical point of contact on site
* £50,000 to £60,000 Base Salary
This is a very rare & exciting opportunity has come up to work for a rapidly expanding, entrepreneurial Food business who place quality and integrity at the top of their agenda.
My client who are based in the Shrewsbury area are seeking a proactive experienced Site Technical Manager to champion the safety, quality and legality of their products as well as well as support the innovation of new products.
Core responcibilties
* You will manage the technical function and be accountable for all aspects of product quality, integrity and food safety including compliance to legislation, internal and third party standards.
* Lead the HACCP Food Safety team and practical implementation of HACCP controls.
* Develop, implement and maintain up to date quality management systems, processes and procedures relevant to site operations, ensuring compliance with BRC, Lion and customer specific standards.
* Lead the hygiene team to deliver required standards.
* Establish an internal audit programme that monitors and challenges compliance to standards.
* Establish a KPI monitoring programme that provides visibility of site performance, drives targeted action and continuous improvement.
* Establish supplier audit and monitoring programme.
* Work cross-functionally to resolve day to day food safety, quality or integrity challenges and facilitate efficient and effective corrective actions.
* Work collaboratively with production to challenge and deliver best practice hygiene standards.
* Support product and operational teams with new product development and validation processes
* Lead or support site development and quality improvement projects as appropriate.
* Oversee and manage technical spend, seeking to maximise return on annual spend.
* Maintain up to date industry knowledge in relation to legislation, technology and changes in customer requirements, working to drive best practice and future-proof the business.
Customer Contact
* Play your part in establishing and on-boarding new customer accounts ensuring compliance to their standards and customer satisfaction.
* Lead customer audits and where required the timely close out of non-conformances.
* Act as Technical point of contact for day to day product queries and issues, providing requested information in a timely manner.
* Attend customer meetings where required.
* Work to continually meet, improve and exceed customer expectations.
People Management, Training & Development
* Lead the technical team to deliver food safety, quality and integrity requirements.
* Maintain standards and discipline within the team.
* Monitor and manage employee performance
* Proactive and positive in approach to developing standards, driving continuous improvement and resolving issues.
* Identify training requirements and ensure all members of the team are suitably trained.
What we are looking for ?
- You will be proactive with a continuous improvement mindset and have an excellent understanding of food manufacturing and food safety requirements.
- You will be an excellent communicator, confident managing customer audits and have experience of BRC quality management systems and audits.
-You will have formal food safety training (ideally to degree level or equivalent), a minimum of HACCP level 4 and greater than 5 years experience as a Technical Manager.
- You will have experience of working cross-functionally with production and product teams and managing a team.
-You will be part of the leadership team and the custodian of food safety and quality culture, transitioning the existing business from contract to direct manufacture and leading the development and integration of food safety and quality systems for two brand new
For further details on this opportunity please contact Scott Ballantine at D R Newitt