Technical Manager
- Posted 29 April 2024
- Salary Up to €90,000
- LocationCounty Kilkenny
- Discipline Quality Assurance & Food Safety
- ReferenceGJS007
- Contact NameGareth Scarlett
Job description
A key leadership vacancy forming a pivotal part of the site leadership team, reporting to the site director. This role will directly manage and lead the technical, quality and hygiene teams. The incumbent will ensure the creation of a compelling vision and technical strategy aligned to business and group priorities, ahead of market competition, that empowers people to deliver the strategy and ensures that the technical policies and procedures comply with and focus on food safety, legality, quality and hygiene. The role takes responsibility for a very broad range of cross functional influence across the site, to ensure that the highest standards of food safety of our products and processes are maintained and improved.
Key Accountabilities
Overall responsibility for the site’s technical objectives with a focus to drive food safety; legality; raw material and product quality; customer, product and hygiene standards. Process improvements and customer technical & associated commercial relationships
Develop a proactive compelling technical strategy, aligned to group priorities but also with a focus on excellence in quality, that enthuses the customers and is practical for delivery
Creating a high performance, collaborative and empowered culture influencing effectively at all levels at site and across the business matrix
Developing effective talent pipelines within the function, through people development, coaching and mentoring
Ensuring effective working relations and providing key senior technical interface with cross-functional and internal/external stakeholders; customers, government organisations, NGO’s, laboratory, business critical raw material suppliers
Providing clear, concise and accurate advice in the areas of food safety, legality and the environment thereby minimising the company’s exposure to risk and loss
Ensuring the operation of the technical, quality and hygiene auditing functions attain minimum legislative, business and customer requirements
Responsibility in the effective management of site business continuity and crisis management, inclusive of public recall situation
Control the development and implementation of HACCP and quality management systems
Ensuring departmental functions are effective and efficient in their roles, ensuring business and customer requirements are met or to cease production that is not compliant with technical policies and procedures
Responsibility for food safety, quality and technical issues from intake, process, production through to dispatch
Drive the completion of the site and customer’s KPI’s, whilst ensuring they are fit for purpose
Overall responsibility for traceability and documentation control
Budget management
Skills and Experience Required
Significant experience of working in a strategic site technical leadership role within a meat manufacturing factory environment
A senior operator who understands the fundamentals of all associated technical disciplines and has experience of engaging, leading and motivating technical and hygiene teams
Technically and commercially astute, safety and legality focused
Detailed understanding of the context of and compliance with UK legislation and directives in relation to areas governing food safety, legality and the environment
A proactive, change orientated leader with good inter-personal skills, who will ‘sell’ technical visions passionately to customers, teams and employees and embrace and effect change
Able to develop and lead the technical function effectively, employing coaching and mentoring and effective talent succession planning
An ability to communicate effectively and influence at all levels, plus a proactive collaboration with other disciplines within the business
Level 4 HACCP and food safety is essential
Decision-maker, able to exercise judgement and take responsibility for the consequences of actions and decisions
A continuous improvement mindset