Description
The Site Technical Manager is responsible for ensuring that all products manufactured by the Company meet safety, quality and legal requirements. This will be achieved by monitoring and maintaining the Company and the customer’s quality assurance systems, food safety audits and HACCP.
What you'll do at Pasta Evangelists:
* Continually develop and maintain the Company quality management system and HACCP.
* Act upon legislation and guidelines to ensure that manufacturing is conducted legally.
* Advise on hygiene and housekeeping, factory fabrication and food handling practices to ensure products are produced in a food safe environment.
* Ensure compliance to customer’s policies and standards and the BRC Global Standard for food safety.
* Provide information and expertise to external customers on all food safety and quality related matters.
* Comply with the customers standards and policies.
* Be the main contact for customer audits. Liaise with customer/third party auditor(s). Ensure all documentation is available. Implement agreed corrective actions.
* Ensure compliance to relevant standards e.g. RSPO, MSC, etc.
* Complete internal audits.
* Advise on food safety and hygiene.
* Ensure maintenance of customer and raw material specifications.
* Liaise and co-operate with the production and commercial teams to ensure that customers are supplied with food products which are safe to eat and that the quality complies with the customer specifications.
* Liaise and co-operate with the production and commercial teams to ensure that products meet current legislation standards and that they are produced under methods of Good Manufacturing Practices.
* Oversee launch of new products and artwork approval system.
* Conduct supplier audits as required.
* Set objectives and team and individual KPIs based on the consumer focused business plan and monitor these objectives and KPIs to ensure they are met.
Who you are:
* Knowledge of HACCP, BRC and retail audit requirements.
* Able to lead a BRC audit (latest version)
* Knowledge of food legislation standards.
* Awareness of Health and Safety legislation and regulations.
* Advanced Food Hygiene Certificate.
* Previous experience working in a technical role is essential.
* Previous experience of working in the food industry is essential.
* A passion for delivering results and the drive to exceed expectations.
* Strong planning and organisational skills with a sense of priority for deadlines and attention to detail.
* Excellent decision making and problem-solving skills.
* A passion for delivering an outstanding customer experience.
* Ability to be flexible to meet business needs.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal).
* A team player.
* Self-motivated and a strong commitment to personal development.
What we can offer:
* Competitive salary to attract best talent
* Join a dynamic, fast-moving & diverse team
* Regular team socials and pasta tastings
* Employee Referral Scheme
* Free Pasta Evangelists products
* Free Italian lessons
* Discounted gym membership
* Cycle to work scheme
* 25 days of paid annual leave (plus bank holidays)
Pasta Evangelists was born seven years ago out of a desire to become the authority in fresh pasta. We’re on a mission to reimagine and elevate pasta as a category, which is worth a staggering £3.8bn yet has seen little innovation for decades.
Since launching our original fresh pasta recipe kit service in 2016, we have built a cult following of British pasta lovers – our Evangelists – who are passionate about discovering the breadth and variety of pasta, as well as the irresistible stories behind it.
Today, Pasta Evangelists is backed by Barilla (the world’s biggest pasta company) and is proud to be the UK’s biggest pasta brand by revenues, as well as one of the UK’s fastest-growing startups. In addition to our website, our recipe kits are also available for customers to purchase through major online retailers like Ocado & Amazon Fresh. Londoners can also treat themselves to fine Italian dinings at our high-end Harrods Pasta Bar, or learn to make our signature dishes from scratch at our viral Pasta Academy, where we welcome thousands of pasta lovers every month.
Most recently, we’ve been busy disrupting Britain’s pizza-centric Italian takeaway market with a brand new fresh pasta takeaway concept, available on as well as major delivery players like Deliveroo, UberEats and JustEat. With more than 40 kitchens across the UK, we’re expanding coverage to new cities on an almost weekly basis (including our first openings in Scotland and Wales!). We've also opened the UK's biggest pastificio (which, in Italian, means pasta factory, but 'pastificio' better reflects the type of fresh, artisanal pasta we produce) in Acton, West London, allowing us to make ever more exciting and ambitious pasta and sauces for our customers.
Given our ambitions, we are looking for exceptional professionals to lead our business through its next growth chapter.