Technical Manager : Quality, HSE and Manufacturing

TipTopJob; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

TipTopJob is recruiting a Technical Manager in Oldham. This permanent, full-time role provides technical leadership across the site, ensuring quality, health, safety and environmental standards meet customer and statutory requirements.

You will drive continuous improvement across manufacturing and conversion activities and maintain hands-on visibility on the floor. The role reports to the Operations Director and involves leading a small team to manage technical performance, audits, and

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical, quality, environmental and health & safety management systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously improve the site's technical, quality, environmental and HSE management systems.
• Maintain compliance with customer, statutory and certification requirements (e.g. BRCGS, FSC).
• Provide technical leadership to ensure finished products meet customer specs and internal quality standards.
• Manage customer complaints, non-conformances, deviations and incidents with root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Plan and support audits to ensure site audit readiness and timely actions.

Skills

Leadership

Job description

About The Role

To provide technical leadership across the site, ensuring effective management of quality, health, safety, and environmental standards while maintaining compliance with customer, statutory and certification requirements. The role supports operational performance by developing practical systems, resolving technical and compliance issues, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring standards are consistently applied across manufacturing and conversion activities.

Job Title: Technical Manager

Location: Oldham

Salary: Up to GBP70K

Job Type: Permanent, Full time

About The Role

To provide technical leadership across the site, ensuring effective management of quality, health, safety, and environmental standards while maintaining compliance with customer, statutory and certification requirements. The role supports operational performance by developing practical systems, resolving technical and compliance issues, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring standards are consistently applied across manufacturing and conversion activities.

This is a site:based, hands:on leadership role and is not suited to routine home working or management from behind a desk. The post holder is expected to maintain a visible presence across manufacturing, engineering, and warehouse areas, actively engaging with people, processes, and equipment to understand issues first:hand, support standards and drive practical improvements.

Reporting to: Operations Director

Principle Accountabilities

• Lead, manage and continuously improve the sites technical, quality, environmental and health and safety management systems, ensuring they remain effective, compliant, and aligned to business objectives.
• Maintain compliance with relevant customer, statutory and certification requirements, including BRCGS Packaging Materials, FSC chain of custody requirements and applicable health, safety, and environmental legislation.
• Provide technical leadership, supporting departments to ensure finished products meet agreed customer specifications, regulatory requirements, and internal quality standards, including print, die:cutting, gluing, dimensional accuracy, board grade, strength, and presentation requirements.
• Manage customer complaints, internal non:conformances, deviations and incidents through effective investigation, root cause analysis, corrective and preventive action, and verification of close:out.
• Plan, lead and support internal, customer, third:party and regulatory audits, ensuring the site remains audit:ready and that all actions are completed within agreed timescales.
• Lead site risk assessment activity relating to machinery safety, transport management, occupational health and safety, contractor management, product quality and legality, hygiene, environmental controls.
• Develop, review, and maintain site policies and procedures, work instructions, and other technical documentation to ensure they are current, practical, and consistently applied.
• Actively lead relevant site teams and review forums, including Hazard and Risk Management, quality review meetings, HSE reviews etc.
• Support new product introduction, trials, and change control activity, ensuring that quality, safety, and environmental risks are assessed before implementation.
• Manage technical and compliance requirements relating to specialist equipment, machinery purchase and modifications, infrastructure projects : ensuring activities are delivered safely and in accordance with applicable standards.
• Provide practical technical guidance and coaching to managers, supervisors and employees to build competence, improve standards, and support consistent compliance across the site.
• Monitor, analyse and report on key technical, quality, environmental and HSE performance indicators, identifying trends, risks, costs, and improvement opportunities for senior management.
• Lead a team of three field service engineers responsible for installation, servicing, and repair of customer site based Panotec machines (including site surveys pre machine installation).
• Undertake any other duties, projects or responsibilities that are appropriate to the level, scope, and purpose of the Technical Manager role.
  

About You

Leadership Attributes:

• Integrity and Accountability : Acts with professionalism, fairness, and consistency, taking difficult decisions when required and holding self and others accou