Factory Technical Manager
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Food Manufacturing | Monday to Friday | Days Only | Up to £55,000 + Benefits
Location
Scunthorpe
Salary
Up to £55,000 per annum plus 33 days holiday, pension, and excellent company benefits.
The Opportunity
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Factory Technical Manager to join a prestigious global food manufacturing business. This is a key leadership position, providing technical direction across the site and ensuring the highest standards of food safety, quality, legality, and customer compliance are achieved and maintained.
Reporting into the senior leadership team, you will be responsible for driving technical excellence, maintaining audit readiness, leading continuous improvement initiatives, and developing a high-performing technical team.
This role would suit a confident and influential technical professional with strong experience in a food manufacturing environment and a passion for quality and food safety standards.
What's on Offer?
Salary up to £55,000 per annum
Monday to Friday working pattern
Days-based role
33 days holiday
Pension scheme
Career development opportunities within a global organisation
Supportive and collaborative working environment
Opportunity to make a significant impact within a successful manufacturing operation
Key Responsibilities
As Factory Technical Manager, your responsibilities will include:
Providing day-to-day technical leadership across the manufacturing site.
Ensuring compliance with all food safety, legal, quality and customer requirements.
Leading, coaching and developing the Technical and Quality teams.
Managing and maintaining the site's HACCP system, ensuring it remains current, validated and effective.
Ensuring CCPs, CPs and associated monitoring systems are effectively controlled and verified.
Leading investigations into food safety incidents, quality deviations and potential contamination risks.
Driving continuous improvement within the site's Quality Management System (QMS).
Maintaining product specifications, procedures, work instructions and quality standards.
Managing customer technical queries, complaints and requests within agreed service levels.
Overseeing allergen management processes, including segregation, cleaning validation, labelling and verification.
Ensuring the site remains in a state of continuous audit readiness for customer, regulatory and third-party audits.
Supporting operational teams to deliver quality, compliance and continuous improvement objectives.
Monitoring technical KPIs and implementing corrective and preventative actions where required.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will have:
Proven experience in a Factory Technical Manager, Technical Manager, Quality Manager or similar senior technical leadership role within food manufacturing.
Strong knowledge of HACCP, food safety legislation, quality systems and customer standards.
Experience leading technical teams and developing high-performance cultures.
Excellent audit management experience, including BRCGS and customer audits.
Strong understanding of allergen management and risk mitigation.
Experience investigating food safety incidents and implementing corrective actions.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
A proactive, hands-on approach with a continuous improvement mindset. xiskglj
Apply Now
If you're an experienced Factory Technical Manager looking for your next challenge within a leading food manufacturing business, we'd love to hear from you.
Submit your application today to be considered for this exciting opportunity.
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