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Technical Manager

Employer
Silven Recruitment Limited
Location
West Lancashire
Salary
£Competitive Salary + £6,500 Car Allowance + Bonus + Healthcare
Closing date
22 Dec 2020

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Technical
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Technical Manager

£Competitive Salary

(+£6,500 Car Allowance + Bonus + Healthcare)

West Lancashire

Job Reference: GG/8240

This is a key role with a large food manufacturer which supplies branded and own-label products to all the major retailers. Reporting into the Group Head of Technical, you will be responsible for Food Safety and Quality on a heavily audited site of around 450 people.

The Role

  • To co-ordinate all technical quality activities to ensure that products are manufactured against agreed specifications.
  • To develop and maintain a robust auditing programme that continues to meet the requirements set by all audit bodies.
  • To develop the site technical strategy, to show continuous improvement and added value.
  • To support the central technical team to develop consistent best practice policies whist looking for alternative ways to solve problems
  • Delivery of site technical KPI’s,
  • To be customer facing on all technical issues and to support the commercial counterparts where required to ensure business continuity
  • Primary contact with Government and Non-Governmental organisational bodies – Inclusive of retailer interface.
  • To develop & support robust corrective action plans to ensure any consumer or customer dissatisfaction is addressed
  • To agree specifications that are achievable and review to ensure that customer satisfaction is always met
  • To develop a quality culture throughout the manufacturing site by supporting the FGM and senior team to continuously improve against standards
  • To develop clear hygiene standards ensuring that corrective actions that may cause risks are dealt with in a timely manner
  • Undertakes investigations on any internal incidents that have led to contaminated product leaving site control
  • To oversee all site technical contracts ensuring that they are managed and delivering against agreed KPI’s
  • To ensure that there is a formal handover from the packaging team ensuring that all documentation is available and that quality standards are maintained.
  • To ensure that there is a formal handover of new products from NPD and that all documentation is available and that products quality standards are achievable
  • To develop robust capital plans for continuous quality improvements inclusive of supporting documentation

The Candidate

  • Degree qualified or equivalent experience.
  • FMCG experience
  • Problem solving, strong organisational and prioritisation skills.
  • Strong IT skills
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Self starter
  • Organisation and prioritisation.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Strong oral and written communications.

Next Steps

To apply for this role, please contact Gilbert Gregory at Silven on either 0161 832 7463 or gilbert.gregory@silven.co.uk quoting reference GG/8240.

Company

The Silven team is full of passionate, committed and personable people, who have built their careers recruiting into their specialist markets.

We’ve developed many long standing client and candidate relationships along the way; mainly because we delight in helping companies to realise their plans and in assisting candidates to advance their careers.

If you are a client or candidate seeking advice and a service based on experience and knowledge of your market, we’d love to hear from you. Contacting us could be the best thing you do today.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0845 0036872
Location
Clarence House
4 Clarence Street
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M2 4DW
GB

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