Head of Technical

6 days ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom City recruitment group Full time

**Overview**

City Recruitment Group Executive are recruiting for a Head of Technical to work for an established food manufacturing business on a permanent basis. This role is paying between £50,000 - £60,000 dependant on experience.
**Your new role**
- Manage the day to day running of all the operational technical aspects of the company's quality management systems, effectively & professionally managing a team of 4 including a Technical Assistant & QA's
- Complete & lead internal audits, plus be the client contact for all Technical, Quality & Hygiene matters.
- Direct & advise on food safety & food hygiene protocols.
- Act upon legislation and guidelines to ensure that manufacturing is conducted legally.
- Advise on hygiene and housekeeping, factory fabrication and food handling practices to ensure products are produced in a food safe environment.
- Provide information and expertise to external customers on all food safety and quality related matters.
- Effectively communicate and co-operate with the production and commercial teams to ensure that customers are supplied with food products which are safe to eat and that the quality complies with the customer specifications
- Conduct supplier audits & host 3rd party audits as required.
- Set objectives, team and individual KPI’s based on the both the business & customer focused strategic commercial plans, monitoring these objectives and KPI’s to ensure they are met.
- Implementing and maintaining all robust HACCP systems for all processes to assure product safety, quality and legality in line with all current food legislation, packaging, FIR labelling, raw material and finished product.
- Provide customers with listing forms and product specifications
- Leadership and development of the Quality & Food Safety agenda to reduce customer complaints and drive continuous improvements in GMP standards.
- Maintaining and continually developing the Company and the customer’s quality assurance systems, food safety audits and HACCP.
- Ensure an up to date Quality Manual where documents are 'controlled’ and distributed accordingly.
- Advice on changes to or new food legislation.
- Key contact during both customer and BRC audits, ensuring that both BRC standard and accreditation is maintained
- Ensure compliance to customer’s policies and standards and the BRC Global Standard for food safety and to other relevant standards e.g. RSPO, MSC, etc.
- Ensure maintenance of customer and raw material specification
- Conduct and review micro and nutritional analysis to agreed customer and site requirements.
- Working with NPD to ensure trials and new product launches are coordinated.

**What you'll need to succeed**

It's important that you have a strategic mindset, as you will lead and influence the direction of the business and ensure wider business objectives are met. As a Head of Technical you will have a continuous improvement mindset and you should also have excellentknowledge and understanding of regulation and policy, aspiring to achieving AA accreditation in BRC audit.

This is a key role, spearheading the continuous development of all Technical control measures, HACCP, efficient effective quality management systems (QMS), GMP & top level hygiene standards.
- Head of Technical experience within the food manufacturing industry
- Qualified in Food Safety, Food Hygiene and HACCP to Level 3/4
- High care / High risk processes experience plus strong HACCP, BRC, GMP, CI, LEAN & Team development skills
- Strong professional communicator at all levels
- Degree qualified or time served in a comparable role
- Flexible & Adaptable to support across the wider parts of the business as this is an SME employer, therefore teamwork is key

**What you'll get in return**

Benefits include; competitive salary, free onsite parking, friendly cohesive working environment, autonomy in the role/business, discounts on products, progression & more.



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