Senior Food Safety & Quality Manager

Pilgrim's Europe; North Devon; Presencial; GBP 55.000 - 75.000; Jornada completa

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Health & safety culture

Descripción de la vacante

Pilgrim's Europe in North Devon is seeking a site Technical Lead responsible for all technical aspects of the designated business unit. You will drive HACCP-based quality systems, ensure food safety, legality and customer standards, and work with operations to deliver site KPIs.

You will partner with Factory Management to foster a Food Safety & Quality culture, lead audits, implement improvements and provide technical guidance across departments to support performance and compliance.

Responsabilidades

• Implement and maintain a HACCP-based quality system to meet BRC/customer standards and ensure food safety, quality and legality.
• Lead and motivate a Food Safety & Quality culture with site management to improve technical aspects (product, process, hygiene) to meet customer and legal KPIs.
• Audit factory environment and activities to assess standards and ensure continuous improvement of site technical standards.
• Manage workload and priorities, encouraging ownership and team unity.
• Report site and BU technical performance to internal/external stakeholders; keep teams aware of status and challenges.
• Provide technical guidance, training and support to other departments.
• Work with customers/statutory bodies to implement legislation and customer standards; during audits provide information and implement corrective actions.
• Ensure new equipment/fabrication enhances technical performance.
• Analyze microbiological/chemical/allergen results to determine corrective and preventive actions.
• Manage serious incidents to establish root causes and corrective/preventive actions.
• Investigate and implement new technologies; work with central functions to maintain Food Quality & Safety systems.
• Drive customer complaint reduction plans.

Descripción del empleo

Full responsibility for all technical aspects of the designated business unit within the factory ensuring that the physical factory / site and its operation provide for food safety and quality , consistently meet customer and legal requirements, and work towards best practice. Time management to be planned to support team and their needs across the business unit to deliver results. To assist the Technical Manager in ensuring that the overall \"day to day\" site technical requirements are met. Interacting with the technical and operations teams to drive standards and customer expectations forward. To assist business unit management in delivery of the operating and financial performance. Key Responsibilities\\Measures of Success Health & Safety:

Technical

• Implementation, maintenance and continuous improvement of a HACCP based quality system, such that, as a minimum, required approvals (typically BRC and customer standards) are achieved and food quality/safety/legality standards are consistently met.
• Work alongside the Factory / Site Management team to lead and motivate the Food Safety & Quality culture to drive continuous improvements on all technical aspects on site (product, process and environmental / hygiene) to meet Customer and legislative requirements to deliver both external and internal KPIs.
• Auditing of the factory environment and activities to enable full assessment of standards being achieved, assessing, and ensuring the site management team are continuously improving ongoing technical standards.
• Effectively manage the workload and priorities, whilst encouraging ownership, responsibility and site team unity.
• Reporting of technical performance of the site, and Business Unit both internally and externally. Ensuring relevant internal personnel are fully aware of technical status and challenges which require their input to improve.
• Provision of technical guidance, training and support to other departments, developing awareness and understanding of technical challenges
• Working with Customers / Statutory Bodies, implementation of legislation and Customer standards. During factory visits and audits, providing information required and implementing corrective actions where necessary and providing
• Ensure that new equipment and fabrication will enhance technical performance, and not reduce it.
• Analysis of microbiological / chemical / allergen results / trends to determine corrective action / preventative measures as required
• Management of serious incidents to establish root cause and corrective actions / preventative measures. Ensuring corrective actions are taken to resolve issues effectively and efficiently.
• Investigate and evaluate options for new technologies; Lead their implementation from a technical standard point of view. Working with central functions to maintain and develop the existing Food Quality & Safety systems
• Driving customer complaint reduction plans with