Technical Leader
Location: Leicester
Department: Technical
Reports to: Quality Manager
About Europe Snacks
At Europe Snacks, we want to be a great place to work. We do that by making sure our values of Entrepreneurship, Excellence and Care sit at the heart of everything we do. We’re now looking for a Technical Leader to join our Leicester site and help drive food safety, quality, hygiene and compliance performance across the business.
The opportunity
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced technical professional who enjoys working in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment and wants to make a genuine impact.
As Technical Leader, you’ll be part of the day-based Technical Team, supporting departmental objectives and site performance targets. You’ll play a key role in maintaining compliance, driving standards, coaching others, supporting investigations and helping to embed continuous improvement across the factory.
Key responsibilities
Food safety, quality and compliance
- Support compliance activity across site and help drive corrective actions through to completion
- Lead and maintain traceability routine testing
- Review and police line paperwork to ensure adherence and completion in real time
- Ensure lines are positively released back to production using defined swabbing schemes through QATs
- Carry out audits to schedule, including glass and hard plastic, bait box, GMP and internal audits
- Ensure site adherence to customer-specific quality assurance standards
- Conduct and analyse QA board testing and trending to identify key areas for improvement
- Ensure raw materials have approved specifications and packaging film is signed off before launches
Leadership and people
- Work across all shifts to ensure employees understand and follow best practice
- Coach and mentor QAT and QC staff to improve standards and capability
- Educate and promote food safety and technical standards across operational teams
- Lead by example on safe working practices and expected behaviours
- Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, customers and auditors
Customer, reporting and issue management
- Understand the main issues impacting your area during the previous 24 hours
- Report NCRs daily and support closure of actions
- Communicate quality or compliance concerns promptly to shift management and the wider management team
- Support customer quality control visits and liaise professionally where required
Continuous improvement and problem solving
- Take corrective action where product is not meeting specification
- Support and lead root cause analysis to prevent repeat issues
- Escalate recurring issues appropriately
- Be actively involved in continuous improvement projects and quality initiatives
- Help develop SOPs, manuals, procedures and defined standards to improve consistency and performance
Hygiene, safety and site standards
- Maintain strong food safety and health and safety standards within your area
- Ensure PPE is worn correctly at all times
- Ensure equipment is cleaned in line with relevant CICs and SOPs and that the QA Lab is kept clean
- Drive site hygiene standards, including supporting the creation and training of cleaning cards alongside the Hygiene Supervisor
- Take part in weekly GMP audits with Area and Shift Managers
- Carry out regular line walks to identify foreign body risks and hygiene improvement opportunities
- Support supply and replenishment of chemicals, consumables and waste management to avoid shortages
About you
To be successful in this role, you’ll need to be a credible and proactive technical professional who can build trust, influence others and stay calm under pressure.
You’ll likely have:
- Experience in a technical, QA or food safety role within food manufacturing
- Good working knowledge of GMP, HACCP, traceability and internal auditing
- Experience supporting corrective actions, investigations and root cause analysis
- The confidence to challenge standards constructively and hold the line where needed
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- A collaborative approach and the ability to work effectively across departments and shifts
- Strong IT skills, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Report-writing experience, ideally including technical specifications and complaint investigations
Desirable qualifications
- Literacy/Numeracy to National Standard Level 2
- Level 3 Food Hygiene
- Level 3 HACCP
- Train the Trainer qualification
Personal qualities we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone who:
- Leads with credibility, maturity and calmness under pressure
- Gives timely, constructive feedback and communicates openly
- Works collaboratively while knowing when to support, challenge or push back
- Is resilient, adaptable and positive about change
- Can inspire others through encouragement, support and high standards
- Brings energy, initiative and an improvement-focused mindset
- Champions equality, diversity and inclusion
- Embodies customer focus and follows through on commitments
- Is passionate about technical leadership and continuous improvement
Why join us?
This is more than a technical role, it’s an opportunity to influence standards, support people, and help shape the future of quality and food safety on site. You’ll join a values-led business where your contribution matters and where you’ll have the chance to make a visible difference every day.
Please note this role is not with sponsorship.
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Location: Leicester
Department: Technical
Reports to: Quality Manager
About Europe Snacks
At Europe Snacks, we want to be a great place to work. We do that by making sure our values of Entrepreneurship, Excellence and Care sit at the heart of everything we do. We’re now looking for a Technical Leader to join our Leicester site and help drive food safety, quality, hygiene and compliance performance across the business.
The opportunity
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced technical professional who enjoys working in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment and wants to make a genuine impact.
As Technical Leader, you’ll be part of the day-based Technical Team, supporting departmental objectives and site performance targets. You’ll play a key role in maintaining compliance, driving standards, coaching others, supporting investigations and helping to embed continuous improvement across the factory.
Key responsibilities
Food safety, quality and compliance
- Support compliance activity across site and help drive corrective actions through to completion
- Lead and maintain traceability routine testing
- Review and police line paperwork to ensure adherence and completion in real time
- Ensure lines are positively released back to production using defined swabbing schemes through QATs
- Carry out audits to schedule, including glass and hard plastic, bait box, GMP and internal audits
- Ensure site adherence to customer-specific quality assurance standards
- Conduct and analyse QA board testing and trending to identify key areas for improvement
- Ensure raw materials have approved specifications and packaging film is signed off before launches
Leadership and people
- Work across all shifts to ensure employees understand and follow best practice
- Coach and mentor QAT and QC staff to improve standards and capability
- Educate and promote food safety and technical standards across operational teams
- Lead by example on safe working practices and expected behaviours
- Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, customers and auditors
Customer, reporting and issue management
- Understand the main issues impacting your area during the previous 24 hours
- Report NCRs daily and support closure of actions
- Communicate quality or compliance concerns promptly to shift management and the wider management team
- Support customer quality control visits and liaise professionally where required
Continuous improvement and problem solving
- Take corrective action where product is not meeting specification
- Support and lead root cause analysis to prevent repeat issues
- Escalate recurring issues appropriately
- Be actively involved in continuous improvement projects and quality initiatives
- Help develop SOPs, manuals, procedures and defined standards to improve consistency and performance
Hygiene, safety and site standards
- Maintain strong food safety and health and safety standards within your area
- Ensure PPE is worn correctly at all times
- Ensure equipment is cleaned in line with relevant CICs and SOPs and that the QA Lab is kept clean
- Drive site hygiene standards, including supporting the creation and training of cleaning cards alongside the Hygiene Supervisor
- Take part in weekly GMP audits with Area and Shift Managers
- Carry out regular line walks to identify foreign body risks and hygiene improvement opportunities
- Support supply and replenishment of chemicals, consumables and waste management to avoid shortages
About you
To be successful in this role, you’ll need to be a credible and proactive technical professional who can build trust, influence others and stay calm under pressure.
You’ll likely have:
- Experience in a technical, QA or food safety role within food manufacturing
- Good working knowledge of GMP, HACCP, traceability and internal auditing
- Experience supporting corrective actions, investigations and root cause analysis
- The confidence to challenge standards constructively and hold the line where needed
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- A collaborative approach and the ability to work effectively across departments and shifts
- Strong IT skills, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Report-writing experience, ideally including technical specifications and complaint investigations
Desirable qualifications
- Literacy/Numeracy to National Standard Level 2
- Level 3 Food Hygiene
- Level 3 HACCP
- Train the Trainer qualification
Personal qualities we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone who:
- Leads with credibility, maturity and calmness under pressure
- Gives timely, constructive feedback and communicates openly
- Works collaboratively while knowing when to support, challenge or push back
- Is resilient, adaptable and positive about change
- Can inspire others through encouragement, support and high standards
- Brings energy, initiative and an improvement-focused mindset
- Champions equality, diversity and inclusion
- Embodies customer focus and follows through on commitments
- Is passionate about technical leadership and continuous improvement
Why join us?
This is more than a technical role, it’s an opportunity to influence standards, support people, and help shape the future of quality and food safety on site. You’ll join a values-led business where your contribution matters and where you’ll have the chance to make a visible difference every day.
Please note this role is not with sponsorship.
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