Job Title: Technical Manager

Location: Cambridgeshire

Salary: £70,000 - £80,000

Hours: Monday to Friday

*Please note that this vacancy does not offer sponsorship or able to accept candidates on PSW Visa*

Job Purpose:

To support the technical department and Quality in the production environment. The technical manager ensures product safety/quality/legality through the continuous development of the HACCP and quality systems.

Main responsibilities:

• To ensure technical, specification or legislative information is provided to customers in a timely manner.
• Evaluation of products during development stage to ensure adherence to customer protocols, standards, and factory capabilities.
• Management of customer visits, audits, and trials from a technical perspective.
• Working with site technical team to ensure technical standards are implemented and always achieved.
• To ensure that all relevant information regarding changes, amendments to the Quality Manuals, customer product specifications, working practises and or legislation requirements are communicated to all relevant staff.
• To carry out Internal audits to check procedures and policies.
• Ensure that the department’s personal hygiene, housekeeping, health & safety, and welfare levels are always maintained to a high standard.

Experience:      

• Technical experience in meat.
• Ability to highlight potential amongst colleagues and develop, in conjunction with personnel, to ensure succession planning is in place.
• Experience in QA, HACCP, Food Safety and Allergen Management

Knowledge:     

• Ability to execute and implement change as necessary to ensure continued profitability of the department. Experience in a customer facing technical role,
• HACCP level 3 (Level4 preferred)
• Internal auditing training
• Third-party auditor training