Technical Manager

Major Recruitment are currently recruiting for an experienced Technical Manager, to join an established FMCG business.

As part of the ongoing growth plan, as Technical Manager you will be an integral part of the Leadership Team.

Job Description Technical Manager

As Technical Manager you will be pivotal in ensuring the safety, legality and quality of all products manufactured on site, while ensuring operations are compliant to the businesses manufacturing standards, BRC Global Standard for Food Safety and Retailer Codes of Practices. Leading the Quality Assurance and elements of the technical administrative team, you will ensure that daily routines delivered by the team complies with all relevant legislation and customer requirements while delivering effective factory presence, closing of non-conformance and adherence to technical KPI's.

Salary Circa �55,000 dependent on experience

On site role, Monday - Friday

Key Responsibilities as Technical Manager:

• Provide management, direction and development for the team; ensure they are motivated, managing their workload, hitting deadlines and have the tools to complete tasks, e.g. training, resource, budget.
• Ensure that all objectives and procedures detailed within the Quality Manual System are met and are compliant to manufacturing standards, BRC Global Standard for Food Safety and Retailer Codes of Practices.
• Ensure corrective actions, root cause analysis, and preventative actions are agreed with the appropriate area managers / supervisors and actioned within the agreed timescale.
• Develop expertise across the site regarding QA and Compliance processes and constraints, to continuously improve food safety, legality and quality compliance across the site.
• Coach Operations, Engineering and QA teams to drive the site quality culture.
• Drive the Food Safety Culture and KPI performance of the site.
• Participate in the Artwork approval process for all retailer and own brand packaging.

• Attend, and where appropriate, lead 3rd Party and Customer visits and to ensure that the site is prepared for all known visits and audit ready every day.
• Participate in the process design, validation and implement any additional system requirements.
• Support supplier and raw material approval Supplier approval audits/visits.
• Completion of risk assessments;
• Micro, chemical, nutritional, allergenic risk assessments and associated testing schedule.
• Traceability & mass balance schedules inc recall & withdrawal.
• Internal audit schedule & management.
• Other Technical Responsibilities.
• Technical team budget and spend.
• KPI Reporting.

Skills and Qualifications as Technical Manager

• Educated to at least degree level, or with a minimum of 3 years industry experience in Technical Management

• HACCP, Food Hygiene and Listeria Qualifications
• Ideally experienced in Micro cultures

• Experience of Retailer Codes of Practices / BRC standard would be desirable

• Experience of man management and team development