We are currently recruiting for a keen, driven, and detail-oriented Assistant Technical Manager to join our Technical team. The main purpose of the role is to lead the Quality Assurance team on site, ensure that daily routines delivered by the team comply with all relevant Cranswick Manufacturing Standard, legislation and customer requirements.
The Assistant Technical Manager will be responsible for assisting with and completing the following duties:
Key responsibilities
- Responsible for the practical application of the sites Quality Management systems
- Accountable for the quality assurance and compliance functions of the site meeting company, legislative, customer and 3rd party accreditation body standards.
- Participate in site HACCP, Integrity, Allergen and Internal audit programs
- Coaching of operations, engineering and QA teams to drive food safety culture
- Lead site technical audits and visits, ensuring the factory is always audit ready
- Ensuring all factory specs / QAS are in place and being followed
- Drive continuous improvement within the site, continually pushing the food safety and quality standards
- Ensuring that complaints, internal non-conformances and audit related non-conformances are completed in a timely, yet thorough manner
- Deputise for the Technical Manager in their absence
What you will need
- Formal qualification in food science / food technology or related subject, minimum HNC, ideally degree level.
- Strong understanding of food manufacturing requirements in line with BRC and retailer COPs
- Ability to lead, engage and influence change and compliance to deliver BRC AA+ and Tesco TFS 4 and above
- Strong knowledge of food safety in a chilled manufacturing environment, with a good understanding of microbiology.
- Minimum Level 3 Food Safety and HACCP qualifications.
Hours of work: 39 hours per week. Monday to Thursday 8am – 4:30pm, Friday 8am to 3:30pm
(A degree of flexibility will be required to suit business needs)
Cranswick Country Foods (Ballymena) are an equal opportunities employer
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