Factory Technical Manager
We thrive on challenge and change. We rise to challenges together.
Location: Old Leake, Boston (PE22 9PN)
Contract Type: Permanent
Shift/Hours: 37.5 hours a week
Salary: Competitive
Reward package including bonus scheme (10%), life insurance, staff shop, MyBargains discount platform and more.
About the role
This is a fantastic opportunity for a Factory Technical Manager to join Boston Meals. The site employs over 700 people and specialises in making chilled Italian ready meals and pasta salads products for a dedicated customer.
The main focus of the role is to drive the delivery of Technical Standards across the sites’ Operations.
The role will ensure that the correct standards are understood by all relevant persons and effectively challenged, by way of Audit. This will underpin the sites Food Safety, Product Quality and Integrity – and hence demonstrate our leading standards.
Accountabilities
About you
Ideally, food related degree qualified, you will have significant experience within a Chilled Food environment – and a good understanding of High Care, High Risk, RTE, RtRH and RTC disciplines.
You will be a clear and effective communicator – able to ‘frame’ situations / incidents etc – to a wide range of stakeholders – to gain their understanding and commitment.
A calm logical thinker – an evidence based decision maker, who when challenged can demonstrate rationale of thought.
Thorough, tenacious and resilient – an individual who will use these attributes to understand and address the root cause of Complaint issues, adverse micro results etc.
If you are IT literate, quick and agile in processing data (eg KPI’s), have solid leadership skills and experience of managing food safety risks – this could be the perfect role for you.
Why join us?
We’re proud to offer you a career with options to explore and pursue. Where you’ll be supported to work hard, push further and show resilience. As a valued Technical Manager, we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too.
What we do
We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose.
In this busy and exciting role, you will be accountable for auditing and supporting technical compliance and integrity against legal requirements and good manufacturing standards.
What you’ll receive
As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.
You’ll enjoy:
Proud to be Bakkavor
We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!
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