Overview
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Vacancy details below reflect the role and requirements.
Job Details
* Vacancy Name: Senior Technical Manager
* Employment Type: Permanent
* Country: United Kingdom
* Location: Wisbech
* Business Area: Corporate
* Workplace Type: Onsite
About Princes
The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.
Responsibilities
* This role drives the overall site delivery and technical teams to ensure quality, legal, food safety, compliance, brand integrity and culture is driven and compliant. This role supports environmental, sustainability and health and safety management across the site.
* To provide strategic leadership and direction through continuous advancement of technical performance aligned to the functional activity, the business goals keeping our sites safe, legally compliant and quality at the forefront.
* Maintain a strategic relationship, alignment in direction and standard ways of working through collaboration, shared learnings, and compliance with the Princes’ group strategy and the central technical function.
* Demonstrate leadership, engagement and active participation in all aspects of the business improvement plans and strategies with all site and business functional operational teams to ensure the technical governance is maintained, improved and considered with all site improvements.
* Ensuring customer and consumer remains at the centre of technical strategy activity. Develop opportunities to drive site cultures, customer joint improvement plans and site initiatives to maximise customer satisfaction and relationships.
* Provide leadership and direction to ensure that across the technical team’s people are engaged, developed and delivering their full potential, providing high performance capability. Build capability centrally through coaching and training to sustain the technical function in line with business needs and growth.
* Fully own all aspects of the technical management for the Princes Manufacturing sites and technical teams within remit.
* Ensure strong and proactive relationships between site technical and operations teams, divisionally, central technical and site leadership and director level.
* Develop, drive, manage and deliver the Princes and customers’ strategic technical agenda and plan within cohort manufacturing sites.
* Work closely with operations, supply chain and other manufacturing leadership teams to ensure business objectives and plans are fully supported and delivered.
* Support, drive and project manage pre-FIRMs, crisis incidents, as required, in line with food alerts, industry incidents, recalls and business impacts to maintain and develop protection and prevention strategies.
* Dissemination and improvement of technical performance and compliance through best practice adoption and PDCA tools for communication of internal and external demonstration of active engagement workstreams.
* Provide senior interface with customers and joint business planning activity to deliver exceptional standards to meet customer service and adherence to customer requirements.
* Identify and provide solutions to solve technical site issues considering group, customer, business and manufacturing strategies.
* Manage and develop your team(s) within the business area technical function.
* Deputise for the Technical Controller (Manufacturing) as appropriate.
Principal Responsibilities
* Work with the Technical Controller Manufacturing in setting strategic category technical plans ensuring alignment with site strategic plans including Operations, Commercial and wider technical team strategy plans.
* Develop 3, 6, 9 month technical strategy plans for active and continuous improvement initiatives.
* Full site technical ownership including raw material management, thermal processing, governance and compliance of systems, quality management and customer service overseen in accordance with group and divisional ways of working.
* Ensure site plans address culture, food safety, brand integrity, continuous improvement, site strategy plan on a page and industry-wide plans.
* To deputise for the Technical Controller (Manufacturing).
* Provide effective leadership and management of the technical function to ensure compliance, continuous improvement and development of the site’s standards.
* Collaborate with the technical director, technical controller and other group technical teams to share best practices and deliver effective solutions for Princes and customers.
* Develop strong relationships with wider technical and operations counterparts and internal colleagues.
* Ensure the team reporting to you are effectively managed in day-to-day interactions, performance, objective setting and reviews.
* Lead and develop direct reports and their teams, with development and succession plans in place.
* Lead in regular technical reviews and updates on projects and improvement activities within sites of responsibility.
* Ensure requests and tasks allocated to teams are managed with accurate work plans, reviews and oversight.
* Own, develop and maintain reports and KPIs at site, business group and total group level; provide analysed monthly KPI reports.
* Develop manufacturing Joint Quality / Technical Plans with defined targets and delivery plans.
* Lead site implementation of aligned practices delivering retailer and certification body policies and codes of practice.
* Prepare sites ahead of customer audits and visits to ensure compliance and progress on improvement plans.
* Lead, develop and support site teams in relation to customer visits and audits; address opportunities and issues.
* Promote and embed best practice across sites and group operations for robust solutions.
* Lead and support management of quality/food safety issues with site and group technical teams to ensure rapid resolution.
* Lead projects as required for teams and sites of responsibility.
Role Requirements
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
* Experience of developing and managing high performing teams
* Degree or Post Graduate qualification in science or food technology (or equivalent)
* Experience of managing customer technical relationships within a UK retail customer-facing role
* Technical expertise within a wide range of food manufacturing operations
* Experience of technical management at a senior level across different areas of food supply businesses (Site / Supplier / Customer)
* Comprehensive knowledge of UK retailer codes of practice and how to implement these effectively within food manufacturing and supply businesses
* Level 4 HACCP
* Lead auditor qualifications
* Project Management skills
* SAP/MES knowledge
* 3rd party audit knowledge: BRC, IFS, Red Tractor, Soil Association, Organic/Gluten Free certifications
* Maintain product Food Safety, Legality, Integrity, Authenticity and Quality standards by ensuring all policies and procedures are adhered to
Benefits
* Cash Car Allowance
* 25 Days Annual Leave plus Birthday off
* 14.5% Pension – 5% employee opt in / 9.5% employer
* Hybrid & Flexible Working - 4 Days in Office / 1 Day WFH
* Flexible Holiday Option - Buy 5 Additional Days
* Enhanced Family Friendly & Carers Policies
* Life Assurance Cover
* Private Medical Insurance
* Critical Illness Cover
* Learning & Development Opportunities
* Potential Corporate Incentive Scheme (company performance based)
Seniority level
* Director
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries: Food and Beverage Services
Note: This description reflects the role responsibilities and qualifications and excludes extraneous postings and site notices.
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