{"id":2368,"date":"2022-04-11T11:53:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T10:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkrecruit.co.uk\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2022-04-11T11:53:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T10:53:43","slug":"technical-manager-somerset-up-to-45k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkrecruit.co.uk\/?p=2368","title":{"rendered":"Technical Manager, Somerset, Up to \u00a345k"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reporting to: Managing Director<\/p>\n

Responsible for: QA Officer and Hygiene Team.<\/p>\n

Main Purpose<\/strong><\/p>\n

To lead the product quality ensuring ongoing development, maintenance and implementation of quality assurance and control systems within operations. Comply with all hygiene, health, safety, legal and quality requirements. Ensure BRC, customers and other audits are concluded successfully.<\/p>\n

Duties and Responsibilities<\/p>\n

\u2022 Factory Quality: Ensure the factory quality agenda is managed effectively so that products are manufactured legally and safely, in compliance with customer and internal company specifications and standards. Carry out shelf life testing and review results on management meetings.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Laboratory: Ensure all testing is performed internally and externally by approved contractors within the frequency required. Ensure all testing meets customer and internal requirements. Action in case of out of specification results. Ensure test consumables are available.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Product Launches: Ensure new products are lunched accordingly with the standard, in a safe\/quality\/legal manner. Review NPD paperwork.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Product & Procedures: Ensure all non-conforming products are assessed and relevant actions are taken in together with the managing director and other senior managers (if required), considering safety, quality, integrity and legality. Ensure all procedures\/process deviations are analysed and actioned in a safe & legal manner.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hygiene & GMP: Ensure that the company has up to date, consistent and appropriate cleaning and GMP procedures that meet the requirements of BRC\/Customers. Ensure that staff is trained on the procedures. Ensure procedures are followed all times.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Compliance Auditing: Ensure the auditing schedule is followed and conduct audits when required. Identify and follow up activities for improvement.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Procedures & Records: Ensure all procedures are kept to date and followed at all times by the bakery staff.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Specifications & Labelling: Create internal and customer specifications upon product development and keep all specifications up to date, amend it when changes are required and communicate to relevant staff to communicate to customers. Ensure labelling is correct and meet legal requirements.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Services Approval Management: Ensure all suppliers and contractors used are approved according to internal procedures and meeting BRC\/Customer requirements previously use. Ensure all ingredients, packaging, consumables and chemicals are approved according to internal procedures and meeting BRC\/Customer requirements previously use.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wastage:\u00a0 Responsible for verifying collection is undertaken and waste reports are received and maintained.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Documentation: Ensure all documents are up to date and in conformance with BRC and customer requirements. Ensure the document is kept up to date.<\/p>\n

\u2022 KPI\u2019s: Appraise\/review performances set as KPI\u2019s on management meetings. Agree objectives and review results using established procedures. Provide required reports and statistics to enable proper decisions to be made regarding KPI\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Practices: Enable best practices to be extended across the business. Liaise with other managers with a view to improve existing best practices.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Motivation and Development: Focus on enhancing motivation and improving the overall competence and effectiveness of staff considering individually needs and working towards a happy environment. Ensures staff are resourced efficiently. Ensure staff are wearing suitable protective clothing, hairnets and no jewellery. Ensure staff follow and stick to the recipes. Ensures staff are trained on all machinery and processes. Ensures that staff members who have been delegated tasks are carrying those tasks to the required standard.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Staff Management: Ensure adequate management and that induction\/training is given to staff. Assist on the decision of appropriate disciplinary actions and regular appraisals.<\/p>\n

KPIs\/Objectives<\/p>\n

Year on year reduction in quality defects and customer complaints<\/p>\n

\u2022 BRC\/ RSPO \/ Utz \/ Customer Audits Compliance<\/p>\n

\u2022 Withdrawal \/ Recall Prevention<\/p>\n

\u2022 Up to date procedures, records, specifications and labelling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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