Food Safety & QA Technical Lead

Oscar Mayer Group UK; Wrexham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Oscar Mayer Group UK is seeking a Technical Manager to lead the QA and technical activities at the site, ensuring products meet safety, quality and legal requirements, and to drive the technical agenda with a multi-disciplinary team.

You will oversee HACCP, customer audits, internal audits, and maintain food safety management systems, liaising with NPD and Process Development to ensure new products comply. Working hours 08:00–17:00.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in a food-related discipline.
• Knowledge of HACCP, BRC and retail codes of practice and audit requirements.
• Knowledge of food legislation standards.
• Previous experience in a technical role is essential.
• Experience in ready meals is highly desirable
• Previous experience of managing teams.

Responsibilities

• Continually develop and maintain Oscar Mayer’s food safety management system and HACCP.
• 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. Represent the team in customer KPI meetings.
• Ensure compliance with the customer's policies and standards and the BRC Global Standard. Ensure compliance to relevant standards e.g., RSPO, MSC, etc
• Lead audit preparation across the site supported by a multi-disciplined team
• Be the main contact for customer audits. Liaise with customer/third party auditor(s). Ensure all documentation is available. Implement agreed corrective actions.
• Support the internal audit system, ensuring audits are carried out to the agreed schedule.
• Advise and lead investigation on food safety incidents and any out-of-spec micro.
• Ensure micro and complaint trends are identified, investigated, communicated to customers (when required) and relevant corrective actions are implemented.
• Liaise and co-operate with the production to ensure that the finished goods quality complies with the customer specifications.
• Liaise with the NPD and Process Development teams to ensure new products meet site HACCP requirements.
• Manage the factory QA teams. Set objectives and team and individual KPI's.
• Manage the factory audit system, ensuring relevant audits are carried out to the agreed schedule.
• Manage the validation site programme, ensure relevant validations are completed on time.
• Support the site’s continuous improvement programme and transition to paperless systems.

Education

Degree or equivalent in a food-related discipline

Job description

Oscar Mayer Group UK is seeking a Technical Manager to lead the QA and technical activities at the site, ensuring products meet safety, quality and legal requirements, and to drive the technical agenda with a multi-disciplinary team.

You will oversee HACCP, customer audits, internal audits, and maintain food safety management systems, liaising with NPD and Process Development to ensure new products comply. Working hours 08:00–17:00.