A leading FMCG Manufacturer is currently seeking a Technical Manager to join their Senior Leadership Team. Reporting not the site director this Technical Manager will implement the company’s technical and quality strategy to ensure they are always audit ready. Ensuring the effective management of product safety, authenticity, legality and quality.Technical Manager responsibilities include:Lead technical team to deliver the site business planWorking in partnership with HR to ensure the recruitment, retention and development of technical staffProduce and implement an annual training and succession planEnsure all annual PDRs are complete and robustCoaching and development on a day-to-day basisManage people performance of the technical functionDevelop multi-skilled resources to support the businessCollaboratively create, communicate and drive the site Food Safety & Quality Culture planCreate a continuous improvement culture across the technical team bringing examples of best practices and new ideasSupport the Process Technologist to develop and lead initiatives for the siteMaximise efficiencies across the site through practices (through quality improvement projects)Working in partnership with SHE in ensuring training is maintained and all areas reflecting the strong health and safety ethos of the companyMust comply with and enforce business and site-specific food safety/ quality, health & safety and environmental policies and procedures.Produce and deliver financial budget commitmentsResponsible for the management of activities which ensure the food safety, authenticity, legality and quality of our products.Technical governance and reporting to senior management teamEnsuring compliance with legislation, company, accreditation, customer and good manufacturing practice standards/ codes of practice, working in partnership with central technical functionWorking cross-site in partnership with peers to standardise and share best practicesDevelop and implement the site food safety plan, promoting it to the site management teamEnsuring technical quality and best practice, training and promotion across the siteTraining, verifying and supporting production in recipes, yield management, testing and analysing samplesConducting incident investigations, including risk assessmentsSupporting independent audits across the companyYou will ideally be a degree qualified Technical Manager with Dairy Manufacturing experience and Proficient understanding & knowledge of dairy/ food microbiology. You will have experience of working with multiple retailers and ideally your level 3 Food hygiene, level 4 HACCP as well as be proficient across Microsoft Office 365 suite.To apply please email a cv