Technical Manager

Technical Manager

2SFG Meals - The Pizza Factory, Nottingham

Monday to Friday

Competitive Salary + Company Benefits

2 Sisters Food Group are seeking an experienced and diligent Technical Manager to lead an established Quality team at our Pizza operation in Nottingham.

About Us:

When you join 2 Sisters, you will become part of the UK’s largest food manufacturer, with an annual turnover of £3billion+, over 13,500 people and covering more than 18 sites.

This role sits within our Meals division, where we live by our mantra of ‘Making Every Meal Moment Special’. We have 5 sites creating over 500 different products to feed our nation, from ready meals to iced fingers…we love our food, and we love our people.

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, and we couldn’t do it without our team. It is a team where everyone counts…we empower you with trust and give you the freedom to deliver. We ‘do what we say’ and accept accountability which allows our customers to trust us to create great tasting, innovative and quality meal solutions.

About The Role:

Reporting into the Head of Technical, the Technical Manager will be responsible for leading our team of established supervisors and auditors. The role will be expected to maintain and enhance the products/processes in the factory to drive improved operational, commercial, food safety, logistical or quality benefits.

The Technical Manager will act as the “technical conscience” of the factory and to help ensure the factory reaches the appropriate state of technical excellence and ensures continuous improvement. This will involve driving technical/quality improvements, legal compliance, maintaining quality standards and leading customer and third-party audits.

Duties of the role will include:

•  Day to day management of QA Teams at both sites, their workload, time and attendance
•  Provide direction and support to the Quality Supervisors and Auditors, managing and facilitating their performance and developments while ensuring that the departmental structure and skills are developed to meet changing requirements.
•  Ensure QA tasks are completed to schedule.
• Continuous improvement and simplification of quality and food safety processes on site
• Co-ordinate programmes to monitor factory standards and drive continuous improvement.
• To investigate all incidence that may contravene the legal aspects of food production, generate customer complaints or breach food safety systems.
•  To ensure that all customer complaints are investigated to satisfactory conclusion and root cause identified. Lead complaint reduction plans.
•  To lead customer and third-party audits in conjunction with Technical Services Manager.
•  To lead HACCP team and ensure the system is maintained with robust risk assessments and all members appropriately trained.
• To be an active member of TACCP teams.

About You:

To excel in this Technical Manager role, you will be able to demonstrate:

• An established background in QA,Technical and Quality Management at a senior level within Food Manufacturing.
•  Strong knowledge of retailer standards, ideally M&S.
•  Level 3 HACCP.
• Level 4 Food Safety.
•  Confident and capable team management skills.
• Strong communication and diplomacy skills.
•   Strong understanding of Food Legislation, Audits and Manufacturing standards.
• High level of PC literacy.

In return for your hard work and dedication 2 Sisters Food Group are offering an excellent starting salary alongside a competitive package including 35 days holiday and the opportunity to influence a market leader during a time of real growth.

If you feel you have the skills and experienced needed to excel in this Technical Manager role then apply today to find out more.

The interview will process will consist of a call from our recruitment team, followed by an online interview and a formal meeting on site for successful applicants.

At 2 Sisters are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and commit to fairness and equality for all employees and applicants. This includes age, disability, neurodiversity, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.