Technical Manager

Castle Employment Agency Ltd; Skipton; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

29 days holiday

Health cash plan

Private health care

Job summary

Castle Employment Group is recruiting an experienced Technical Manager for a food manufacturing site in North Yorkshire. You will lead the site Technical function, ensuring food safety, legality, quality and technical standards, and collaborate with Production and Engineering to resolve issues and drive improvement.

Reporting to the Senior Operations Manager, you will manage audits, CCP monitoring, testing programs, traceability, and continuous improvement, while developing a skilled Technical

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and people-management experience in food manufacturing.
• Solid understanding of food safety management systems, audits and HACCP.
• Proven ability to drive corrective actions and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Leading food safety, quality and technical standards across the site.
• Managing quality control across production, storage and distribution.
• Overseeing microbiological, nutritional, environmental and shelf-life testing.
• Leading root cause investigations into testing failures and customer complaints.
• Identifying trends and implementing corrective and preventive actions.
• Acting as technical lead for customer and external audits.

Skills

Leadership

Food Safety

HACCP

GMP

Root Cause

Audits

Job description

Technical Manager

Location: Skipton area, North Yorkshire

Salary: £58,000 - £62,000 depending on experience

Hours: Monday - Friday 7:30 - 16:30

Permanent | Full-time

Castle Employment Group is recruiting an experienced Technical Manager for an established food manufacturing business in North Yorkshire. This is a key site leadership role with responsibility for food safety, legality, quality and technical standards within a fast-paced manufacturing environment. Reporting into the Senior Operations Manager, you’ll lead the site Technical function and work closely with Production, Engineering and other operational teams to maintain high standards, resolve issues at source and drive continuous improvement.

The Role

As Technical Manager, you’ll be responsible for:

• Leading food safety, quality and technical standards across the site
• Managing quality control across production, storage and distribution
• Overseeing microbiological, nutritional, environmental and shelf-life testing
• Leading root cause investigations into testing failures, non-conformances, deviations and customer complaints
• Identifying trends and implementing effective corrective and preventive actions
• Reviewing and strengthening testing protocols and sampling plans
• Working closely with Production and Engineering to resolve quality issues at source
• Monitoring CCPs and critical production processes
• Developing and improving technical systems, procedures and working practices
• Acting as the technical lead for customer and external audits
• Managing the internal audit programme and ensuring actions are completed
• Maintaining product specifications and technical documentation
• Supporting traceability exercises and product withdrawal or recall procedures
• Overseeing hygiene standards and chemical control systems
• Ensuring chemicals are managed in line with COSHH requirements
• Working with operational teams to improve cleaning effectiveness while controlling chemical usage and cost
• Evaluating and implementing new technical and laboratory equipment and testing methods

Leadership

You’ll lead, coach and develop the Technical team while working cross-functionally to embed a strong food safety and quality culture throughout the site. You’ll also support the delivery of training around hygiene, GMP and technical standards, ensuring food safety is understood and owned across the wider operation.

About You

• We’re looking for an established Technical Manager with strong experience within food manufacturing.
• You’ll need a solid understanding of food safety, quality management systems, audits, HACCP, GMP, root cause analysis and corrective actions, alongside the leadership skills to manage and develop a Technical team.
• You’ll be comfortable operating within a fast-paced manufacturing environment, working closely with Production and Engineering and challenging standards where required.
• You’ll also need to be confident leading customer and external audits and managing technical issues through to resolution.
• This is an opportunity to join a business that is investing further resource into its Technical function and is looking for an experienced Technical Manager who can take ownership, strengthen systems and have a genuine impact on site standards.

Benefits

• 29 days holiday
• Health cash plan from 6 months
• Private health care from 5 years service