Technical Manager

Greencore

Boston

On-site

GBP 67,562 - 84,077

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount

Wellbeing Centre access

Parental leave & menopause policies

Job summary

Greencore is seeking a Technical Manager at our Boston site to lead the technical function, ensuring finished products meet safety standards and customer specifications.

You will drive HACCP-compliant production, audits, and governance, while guiding a team to deliver safe, high-quality outputs for major retailers.

Qualifications

Experience working in high care environments.
Educated to degree level with Food Science/Technology focus.
Advanced food hygiene level 4 and HACCP level 4.
Basic allergen awareness and management knowledge.
Experience with retailers and customer technical databases.
Experience maintaining internal audit programmes.
Experience implementing quality management systems.
Experience delivering BRC or equivalent certifications.
Root cause analysis skills for investigations.
Experience managing supplier audits and customer visits.
Ability to evaluate shelf-life results and apply legislation.

Responsibilities

Manage technical function to ensure safety and conformance to specs and customer requirements.
Control production processes with HACCP to meet food safety standards.
Maintain governance for audits—internal, external, legal and customer.
Investigate process deviations and restore control promptly.
Monitor KPIs and push improvements to meet targets.
Interface with customers during site visits, audits and reviews.
Provide leadership to keep the team safe, engaged and developing.

Skills

High care experience

Food Science degree

Advanced food hygiene (level 4)

HACCP (level 4)

Allergen management

Retailer interface

Internal audit experience

Quality management system

Technical strategy implementation

BRC certification delivery

Root cause analysis

Supplier audit management

Shelf-life evaluation

Food legislation knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s or higher in Food Science/Technology

Job description

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here in Boston we employ around 400 colleagues and produce ready to eat salads, prepared vegetables and snacks for many of the major retailers such as Coop, Boots, Greggs, Costco, Spar and BOL.

What you’ll be doing

As Technical Manager you will manage the technical function in our Boston site, ensuring all materials, including finished products, are safe and conform to all relevant specification, legislation, and customer requirements.

Ensure the operational process and production of finished goods are appropriately controlled, via Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP), to ensure compliance with food safety and customer standards
Ensure that technical governance is in place to deliver audit compliance with respect to internal, external, legal and customer requirements
Investigations into key deviations from process and customer specification, taking appropriate action to bring the process back into control
Monitor departmental key performance indicators and challenge improvement when required to ensure targets are achieved and improved
Interface with the customers during site visits and audits, business reviews and other key opportunities
Provide leadership and direction to ensure that within the function people are kept safe, engaged, focused, developed and delivering to their potential
Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues and that, as a minimum, the department meets the standards set out in the Health, Safety and Environment policy

What we’re looking for

Experience working in high care
Desired: educated to degree level with a specialism in Food Science, Food Technology or Microbiological qualification
Holds the following relevant qualifications: Advanced food hygiene level 4 or equivalent, level 4 HACCP
Basic allergen awareness/practical knowledge of the management of allergens
Demonstrable experience, at technologist level, of working with a retailer; expertise in interpretation of customer code of practice and competent in the use of customer technical databases
Experience of maintaining an internal audit programme
Experience of maintaining a quality management system
Experience of technical strategy implementation
Demonstrable experience of delivery of BRC certification (International standard for food safety and quality) and/or equivalent certification standards
A skilled problem solver with experience of using root cause analysis techniques
Experience of managing supplier auditors and customers
Ability to evaluate and interpret shelf-life results
Experience of applying food legislation to manufacturing practice