Technical Manager

1 week ago

Haverhill, Suffolk, United Kingdom KatKin Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an exceptional Technical Manager to lead our technical function, delivering a first-class technical service across food safety, quality, legislative, and customer requirements. Located in Haverhill, our KatKin Kitchen is where our fresh, 100% human-quality meat food is gently cooked and frozen.

As a Technical Manager, you will lead the technical team with clear communication, structured planning, and disciplined supervision while engaging and influencing key stakeholders and teams across the site.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and execute our technical strategy while being hands-on to drive results with key stakeholders and teams across the site on a day-to-day basis
  • Lead the site readiness preparations cross-functionally to ensure the site is successful in the first BRC audit
  • Provide technical leadership and expertise to solve day-to-day challenges, risk assessments, and crisis management when needed
  • Ensure that all technical standard customer codes of practice, technical policies, quality standards, and food legislation are consistently adhered to
  • Ensure that all technical manuals, systems, and processes are reviewed, updated, trained, and communicated on frequently with key stakeholders and teams across the site
  • Ensure that the HACCP (HACCP/TACCP VACCP) program is maintained and aligned with best practice at all times
  • Ensure that the QMS is effectively implemented and amended to ensure product standards are maintained
  • Ensure the QA and Hygiene teams are run effectively and adequate technical resources are available
  • Ensure that all areas have adequate pest control mechanisms in place to limit the threat to food safety
  • Carry out, review, and communicate trend analysis of quality issues, e.g., customer complaints and TVC counts
  • Manage and coordinate internal audits by implementing audits ensuring scope is applicable, planning and scheduling internal audits to the required frequency, and following up on issues raised and implementing relevant corrective action
Requirements
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in a high-care/risk ready meals or cooked meat product FMCG food manufacturing site
  • Educated to at least a degree level in food science or a related discipline
  • Comfortable with agricultural animal food production (chicken, beef, pork, fish, turkey, lamb, duck)
  • Experienced knowledge of health and safety/food safety systems & legislation: Food Safety and Hygiene Level 3 minimum, HACCP Level 3 minimum, Food Safety Level 3 minimum, Listeria, Micro awareness knowledge
  • Effectively worked cross-functionally with a range of teams (Technical, Production, Engineering, and Quality)
  • Highly organized and able to prioritize your workload within a pressurized environment
  • Strong communicator and able to communicate with internal teams, external customers, suppliers, external authorities, and visitors in a professional manner
  • Ability to reliably commute or relocate to CB9 7FD
About Us

We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At KatKin, we celebrate differences, and everything that makes our colleagues unique, by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive.

We want to make our recruitment processes accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you to be the best you can be, please contact us.

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