Factory Technical Manager

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Vacancy Name
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Factory Technical Manager

Employment Type
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Permanent

Country
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United Kingdom

Location
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Cardiff

Business Area
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Operations

Workplace Type
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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.

The jobholder has site accountability for the site Quality Assurance Department to lead, support, guide and work with the site operations team around the production, product, process, perimeter and premises for all aspects within the manufacturing facility. This role is accountable for driving the technical agenda within the operations function and within the technical performance and all factory facing requirements. This role drives the overall site delivery and quality teams to ensure quality, legal, food safety, brand integrity and culture is driven and compliant.

This role supports the Senior Technical Manager with core deputy accountabilities.

• Leadership of the HACCP plans within the factory: process, product and procedures for all fundamentals, review and update accordingly. Ensure compliance to the CCP and pre-requisite programme. Leadership of the validation and verification review requirements on an annual basis.
• Proactively manages the food safety, culture and integrity to build a right first‑time operation with strong communication, engagement and action plans. Aligned to the site strategy, the site Technical Manager will be responsible for delivery, engagement and driving the quality and food safety agenda.
• Ensures the QA team are maintaining, reviewing, auditing and continuously improve the site quality management systems aligning with customer requirements and industry best practices and BRC standards.
• Accountability for the raw materials, packaging and finished product to be assessed, processed and released through risk assessments appropriate to the requirements for claims, risk, and customer / supplier verification.
• Establish systems and behaviours for auditing, analysis and record review for compliance monitoring.
• Control block stock, through review, investigation, ultimate decision making of release/ rejections and revised practices to ensure compliance with customer specifications and food safety and quality requirements.
• Establish process controls and practices aligned with NPD to launch and on‑going analysis for built in quality, consistency, and meeting customer requirements of raw material through to finished product monitoring.
• Identify, champion and drive continuous improvement in quality standards within the technical and quality department and across site, developing short‑, medium‑ and long‑term strategies, leading focussed improvement teams in GMP and product quality.
• Establish all site monitoring and verification schedules for product, equipment and process monitoring for hygiene, microbiological, chemical, allergenic and customer requirements, implement trending, reviews and continuous improvement activity to drive the site performance.
• Leadership of the site pest management activities to ensure the premises, practices and behaviours are effective, trended and reviewed, along with accountability of the contract provider of pest control.
• Support the technical manager in delivery of the site, technical and quality improvement strategy.
• Ensure procedures and practices are in place to drive compliance for the management of brand integrity, control of operations and product handling to protect claims, allergen status and customer requirements through the factory to product release.
• Lead, investigate and drive continuous improvement by root cause analysis, across product quality, process issues, non‑conformity and audit findings, making sure corrective and preventative actions are implemented to a successful review.
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