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Technical Services Manager

£45k-£50k

Kent

As the Technical Services Manager, you will be a key member of the technical team ensuring full legal technical compliance for the site. We are looking for someone who has knowledge of the food industry and experience of working with Technical Systems with an eye for detail. Reporting into the Technical Manager, you will drive technical processes to protect the technical integrity of the site and the quality of the product range.

This site has a strong reputation in their field providing high quality, top tier products to a diverse customer base. Quality is critical to the site requiring robust systems and processes making this a key role in the business.

The role of the Technical Services Manager is …

Ensuring full compliance with the appropriate legal, accreditation and customer requirements.
Managing the site Quality Management System.
Supporting the production teams on quality issues focussing on goods intake/raw materials.
Being in contact with teams in all departments to ensure collaborative working partnerships.
Conduct gap analysis of customer and industry codes of practice, product safety, origin and integrity requirements.
Being a member of the HACCP and TACCP programme.
Compile technical data for submission for the customers and the site KPI's.
Management of the internal audit schedule with appropriate action for any non-conformances.
Ensuring raw material and packaging specifications are always available.
Management of the document control database.
Driving procedures embedding the HACCP principals and detailed risk assessments.
Involvement in customer visits.

Essential Background

Experience in Technical Systems, Technical Compliance and management or supervisory skills in the food industry.
Experience of manufacturing for multiple customers, understanding what is required from a supplier partner relationship and the audits involved.
Proven Attention to detail on TSM compliance - how have you been instrumental in increasing awareness of this and ensuring adherence from across the site.
Detailed working knowledge of technical software, Excel and MS Outlook.
Confident communication skills both verbal and written.
Able to work at pace and change priorities when required.
Be an active and collaborative team player.

For more information on this role please send your cv without delay to Sarah in the Novus Team - we can discuss more of the detail on application