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Assistant Technical Manager

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
West Yorkshire
Salary
up to £35,000
Closing date
26 Aug 2022

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Quality Assurance, Technical
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Assistant Technical Manager

up to £35,000
West Yorkshire
Ambient Food
Job ref: 8240

The company

The business has been producing delicious and healthy products for over 100 years! As their success grew, they expanded their product range to match evolving consumer demand and now supply their products to all the major UK retailers, plus export internationally all over the globe.

About the Assistant Technical Manager job

The purpose of your role will be to ensure all technical issues are dealt with effectively and efficiently, ensure that all procedures are adhered to by employees and champion product safety, legality, and quality systems.

Key tasks:

  • Assist the Technical Manager, in issues that could affect product safety, legality, authenticity and quality.
  • Maintain CCPs, PRPs and the allergen management system (i.e. gluten-free), ensuring all employees comply with procedures and verify paperwork is completed correctly. 
  • Arrange analysis and microbiology testing with outside laboratory as per schedule.
  • Responsible for customer and supplier complaints.
  • Performing supplier approval.
  • Active in BRC audits and HACCP team meetings.
  • Update and maintain internal specifications (including packaging) and customer specifications on customer portals.
  • Lead the NPD process with the Sales and Production teams to develop new recipes, check all new ingredients are in line with current allergen management policies, create trial specifications, and complete trial information paperwork.

Skills & experience required for the Assistant Technical Manager job

  • Strong technical track record within the food manufacturing industry.
  • Food Safety legislation experience and/or certification.
  • Knowledge of dealing with UK supermarkets during audits, new product development etc.
  • Good understanding of UK Labelling Regulations.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with customers, suppliers, and colleagues.
  • Knowledge of USA and South African food safety and labelling requirements would be a great benefit.
  • Previous experience working in a production environment producing products with ‘Free From’ e.g. gluten free.

More details

The Assistant Technical Manager job is based in West Yorkshire and is paying up to £35,000 according to your experience.

The working hours are Monday to Thursday, 7.30 am - 5.00 pm and Friday 7.30 am - 11 am.

How to apply

Please click the Apply button to be considered for the Assistant Technical Manager job.

After you submit your CV, we will aim to contact you in 1-2 business days, assuming your skills and experience match the job requirements.

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Alternate job titles

Technical Supervisor | Technical Team Leader | Senior QA Technician | Senior Food Technologist | Technical Compliance Supervisor | QA Supervisor | Quality Supervisor        

Company

Since 2000, b3 jobs has been helping to further 1000s of people’s careers within the food manufacturing industry, throughout the whole of the UK. As one of the leading specialist food manufacturing recruitment agencies, b3 jobs cover all disciplines both permanent and interim and from graduates to MD’s,

Our core values are always:

  • to find the very best job for you - not us!
  • to give you friendly, ethical, honest and expert recruitment services
  • to advise and not pressurise, so that you can make the right decisions for you

We genuinely strive to provide you with what you want – a job that not only offers the salary you’re after, but also the career progression and job satisfaction that makes going to work all the more worthwhile. Enough trumpet blowing though – visit our website to read just some of our happy previous candidate testimonials - we are more than happy to let our reputation precede us!

For a full up to date list of our jobs, visit www.b3jobs.co.uk

Food Industry Graduates

If you are graduating soon and looking for your first job in food manufacturing, have a look at our Graduate Resource Hub on the b3 jobs website.

https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/graduates

Here you will find everything you need to get started on searching for a new position, from CV and cover letter writing tips, sample food industry job descriptions, informative and entertaining blog posts, useful links and even live graduate vacancies you can apply for.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01435 866000
Location
Heffle Buildings
33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
GB

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