Technical Manager

Job Description

Salary: Competitive salary

Benefits: Company share save scheme, Competitive matched pension contributions, Life insurance up to 4x salary

Location: Sutton Bridge

Ways of Working: Site Based

Hours of work: Monday – Friday, 08.30 -17.00

Contract Type: Permanent

Why Greencore?

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 every day 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.

Our site in Sutton Bridge is home to around 225 colleagues, producing chilled Indian ready meals for a dedicated customer.

What You’ll Be Doing

In this integral role as Technical Manager, you will ensure robust controls are in place to consistently deliver food safety, quality, legality and customer technical requirements. You will take a proactive approach to preventing food safety issues, while ensuring effective systems and controls are in place to manage incidents or crises should they arise.

You will lead and motivate the technical team across all aspects of the function, setting the technical agenda for the business unit in line with the site strategy.

A key part of the role is defining and embedding a strong quality culture across customer service, raw material management and factory standards, driving continuous improvement and operational excellence throughout the site.

Role Accountabilities

• Ensure food safety, quality, legality and customer standards are clearly defined, implemented, communicated and monitored across the site
• Lead, maintain and continuously improve HACCP and quality management systems, including risk assessments for new products, processes and raw materials
• Drive and host technical audits, manage non-conformances and use KPIs, complaints and microbiological data to identify trends and deliver continuous improvement
• Own technical communication with customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders, defining and delivering the customer technical agenda
• Lead, motivate and develop the technical team through training, PDPs and succession planning, embedding a culture aligned to Greencore values
• Support NPD and process development, ensuring technical standards are met from concept through to launch
• Manage the technical budget, support profit improvement initiatives and champion a strong food safety, quality and health & safety culture across the site

What We’re Looking For

• Strong technical leadership capability within a chilled food manufacturing environment
• In-depth knowledge of food safety, quality, legality and customer technical standards
• Proven ability to lead HACCP, quality management systems and technical audits
• Confidence managing customer and supplier technical relationships
• Ability to analyse data, identify trends and drive continuous improvement
• Strong people leadership skills with a focus on coaching, development and succession planning
• Commercial awareness and the ability to align technical priorities with site and business objectives
• Excellent communication and influencing skills across all levels

What You’ll Get In Return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

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