Technical Team Manager – Blue-Chip Manufacturing

Technical/Quality Team Manager – Blue-chip food manufacturing
Location: Cheshire
Salary: 30 – 38,000 per annum plus excellent benefits

Our client’s proven recipe for success is built on Standards of Excellence that includes: outstanding, hard-working people who develop and produce consistently high-quality products that exceed the expectations of their customers around the country. Their culture drives growth by embracing diversity while encouraging constant learning and continuous professional development.

The role:
 This position is responsible for supporting the Technical Manager to ensure the overall functions of the Quality Assurance Department are monitored, measured and improved; ensuring that product and process are correctly defined and documented for the factory and are available at the appropriate Control Points.
 Deliver technical training when required;
Use microbiology knowledge and utilise it during various processes
 Support the Technical Manager in implementing the factory’s Quality Policy.
 Coach and mentor a team of QA’s and technicians, facilitating improvements in quality standards whilst encouraging an environment open to ideas and suggestions.
 Ensure all designated procedures and practices are in place and updated and that systems of work are safe within the factory.
 Contribute to the provision of effective development of all staff within the department, identifying development needs, monitoring development delivery and assessing individuals against targets and objectives.
 This includes accountability for monitoring and ensuring a high standard of food processing sanitation at the pre-operational and operational stages of production.
 Complete regular quality system and line audits of production and QA procedures to verify product and process conformance at all stages from raw materials to despatch.
 Work with the Technical Manager to monitor and investigate KPIs, including supplier, consumer, environmental and quality issue costs etc.
 Create improvement for the quality function.
 Provide input to new product development and process introduction, integrating these developments into the HACCP and QMS system.
 Review quality incidents using route cause analysis ensuring the introduction and maintenance of corrective and preventative actions.
 Deputise for the Technical Manager in their absence from site.
 Be involved in external audits and visits when necessary and complete traceability exercises.
 Maintain a safe working environment and promote safe culture across the site.
Deliver technical training as advised

The person:

 Degree educated, or equivalent, preferably science and microbiology, food-based or a related field.
 Ideally have chilled short shelf life experience.
 High risk knowledge/experience
 Thermal processing knowledge/experience
 Determination and a will to succeed
 Strong analytical and decision making capability
 Good communication skills
 Structured approach to change management
 Capability to implement change
 Coaching ability
 Financial and commercial awareness
 Prior Technical / QA management of food safety and quality programs.
 Ability to be resourceful, demonstrate business acumen, creative thinking skills and be able to act as a decision maker.
 Exceptional leadership qualities.
 Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
 Demonstrated results orientation.
 Strong analytical, problem solving, lean thinking and statistical process control skills.
 Demonstrated multi-tasking and project management skills.
 Excellent planning and organisational skills.