Job Details

Position: Site Technical Manager
Location: Bridgwater, Somerset
Salary: Up to £80,000 + £7000 car allowance + 15% bonus
This role is a 5 day a week site based role
 
An exciting opportunity has arisen with an independent and globally operating FMCG Manufacturing company at their flagship site in Somerset.

Are you a Site Technical Manager looking to be responsible for the delivery and improvement of site technical and quality performance matrices and standards, across a large complex site? Are you a strong leader who has contributed to strategic plans and developments? Do you feel you are good with coaching and developing the site quality team?

If yes then please keep reading as this job could be for you!
 
The site:

Join a fast paced, complex and welcoming manufacturing facility with a headcount of just over 650 people. There is a drive to improve culture on site and promotion of positive behaviours. Looking forward to 2024, many projects are planned, a capex investment to ensure the site is future fit.
 
Role responsibilities:
 

• Ensure the site is safe, legally compliant, meeting all internal and external standards including delivering excellent audit results from a food safety perspective.
• Lead your site quality team, developing, coaching, and empowering to take them from 'good to great'.
• Leading the site quality agenda, engaging all colleagues in quality, increasing their knowledge of processes and best practice.
• Ensure your team work in close collaboration with the central Product Development team.
• Act as the lead and 'guardian' of BRC, HACCP, auditing, product launch and retailer codes of practice.
• Building great relationships and communication with external customer food technical and quality teams.
• Effective value engineering implementation via active change control and operational support on technical matters and innovative technologies.
• Reporting internal KPIs to the site management team.
• Ensure quality monitoring and testing systems including micro and food safety are in place.
• Lead the site customer complaints process.
• Leading the product/packaging implementation technologists and operational teams to ensure that the launch and trial of new products is completed in a timely manner, meeting food safety, legal and customer requirements and that process changes are evaluated, risk assessed, validated and documented.

 
Essential experience and requirements:

• FMCG experience within Food or Drink. Dairy liquid processing would be desirable
• A degree in a Science or Food Technology is preferred or 5+ years industry experience in a similar technical/quality role.
• In depth knowledge of BRC and HACCP standards
• Experience of internal and external audits
• Experience of working in a fast paced manufacturer, working with multiple sku’s
• Professional Quality and Technical expert who is proactive, confident, and engaging.
• Someone who has drive and passion
• A true leader and role model to help develop the Site Quality team
• Coach mentor and people focused

 
What they can offer you:

• Have control and freedom to put your own stamp on this site
• Career development, progression and support
• Ability to share best practice across other sites
• Be a part of the Senior Leadership team
• Generous package

 
If this role sounds of interest, or maybe isn’t for you but you know someone who could be interested, then please get in touch with Lucy Aspinall to discuss further. Lucy.aspinall@technical-network.co.uk