Technical Manager

Job Title: Technical Manager

Main Purpose: Ensure compliance with Food Hygiene, HR, BRCGS and TQS system.

Responsible to: The Managing Director

Responsible for: Compliance, Food Safety, Audits and Customer satisfaction.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• The role will be to assist the senior Management team with total compliance in audit and technical matters.
• Leading the Food Safety & Quality Standards culture on site.
• To ensure compliance in all areas of the business including manufacturing, processing, policies, and procedures.
• To ensure the TQS (Total Quality System) incorporates all legislative and compliance updates.
• To regularly audit our own systems to maintain and keep up with increasingly stringent regulations.
• To liaise with external audit bodies including Environmental Health, Red Tractor, BMPA, BRCGS, and customers.
• To manage all enquiries from suppliers, customers, public bodies, and members of public.
• To complete all audit and supplier questionnaire requests.
• To ensure conformity.

Key Skills:

• A self-starter with an analytical and methodical approach to work.
• To be diligent, accurate, honest and maintain professional standards.
• Competency in IT skills, mainly Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint.
• Strong communications skills whether verbal, written or digital form.
• To be able to liaise at all levels with Directors, Managers and Supervisors and all personnel.
• To communicate clearly and calmly, ensuring issues are dealt with.
• To have good punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

Company requirements:

• To keep up to date with all relevant food legislation.
• To ensure awareness of change is broadcast though the organisation.
• To be able to liaise with production personnel, company needs and wishes.

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Daily management Responsibility for scientific or legislative updating of codes of practice.
• Good administration and housekeeping

This is not an exhaustive list of tasks, as responsibilities will be necessitated by the needs of the business and to promote your expanding role within the company that will develop over time.

Monday to Friday – Office Hours