Head of Technical

You will lead the technical / process and hygiene functions for the site ensuring legislative compliance to food safety within a manufacturing environment.

You will be the main interface directly with the customer regarding compliance to food safety and quality issues whilst ensuring that procedures are in place to manage food safety and quality systems e.g. HACCP, GMP

Also a big part of your role will be the point of contact for external bodies with regards to compliance audits e.g. BRC & follow up any non-conformances with robust, timely action

More about the role:

• To develop and maintain a close working relationship with customer, whether on or off site. It is critical that confidence is established through clear and timely communication, decisive actions based on sound evidence and judgement and a positive attitude to resolving any issues which may arise.
• To ensure technical and hygiene activities on site are robustly structured and managed in such a way as to comply with relevant industry standards (including BRC Global Standard v8), corporate guidelines and all associated retailer codes of practice
• To ensure that departmental expenditure is regularly reviewed and managed, with exceptions reported to next level management with robust action plans to address
• To ensure new product development programmes run to agreed timescales and generate appropriate costing information. Critical path management for product approval, artwork, technical verification (nutritional/micro) and verification of key brand values.

About you:

• Ideally degree educated, Food Science/Technology or Microbiology qualification preferred
• Proven experience at a similar level in food manufacturing, ideally chilled high risk foods
• Experience of driving cultural change and dealing with a complex high volume factory
• Would suit an existing Technical Manager looking for the next step-up
• Man-management experience
• Process/Product Development experience would be beneficial
• Excellent communication/presentation skills will be essential as daily dialogue will need to be maintained
• Computer literate
• Good working knowledge of BRC Global Standard (ideally version 8)

If this is of interest, contact Bobby on 07415 411 292 or email bobby@recruitment-wolf.co.uk for more information.