Technical Services Manager (Food Manufacturing)

Job Description

Job title: Technical Services Manager (Food Manufacturing)

Company: Bright Blue Foods

Job description: Technical Services Manager (Food Manufacturing)

Competitive Salary

BBF Limited

Blackburn, Lancashire

Full-time, Permanent

We are looking for a confident and assertive Technical Services Manager to join our Blackburn & Shadsworth technical team reporting to the Site Technical Manager.

The Technical Services Manager is responsible for developing and maintaining all technical policies and procedures that make up the Food Safety and Quality Management System for the site, ensuring compliance with the requirements of our customers.

You should possess a track record of actively engaging in and leading BRC and customer audits, hold a minimum of HACCP Level 3 (preferably Level 4), and ideally, have a lead auditor qualification or have completed internal audit training.

We welcome applications from current Technical Services Managers, Quality Managers seeking a lateral move, or individuals aspiring for career advancement.

What you’ll be doing as a Technical Services Manager (Food Manufacturing)

· Implementation of food safety and quality procedures in the factory and QMS in line with the requirements of the BRC Global Standard and Retailers Standards (Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s, Co-Op, Morrisons, Waitrose, Aldi, Iceland etc).

· Taking full responsibility for ensuring that the systems and procedures on site are validated and deemed effective.

· Manage, log and respond to all customer complaints.

· Creation and Management of HACCP.

· Arrange and complete the documentation for the site Vet inspections.

· Facilitating and supporting the annual Senior Management Review.

· Tailored services for the retailers as and when required (Gap Analysis etc.)

· Assisting in the development of the food safety strategy for the site via the management review process such as the Weekly and Daily KPI reviews.

· Facilitating product recalls / withdrawals at site and collate relevant documents.

· Management of environmental monitoring programme.

· Artwork approval.

· Attend new product launches trials and meetings.

· Management of the Internal Audit system and issuing of Audits and closing out.

· Supporting and Leading 3rd Party Audits where required.

Who are BBF Limited?

BBF Limited are one of the UK’s leading ambient cake and chilled dessert manufacturers of retailer own label, licensed and branded cakes, supplying recognisable major retailers across the UK and European market.

Our team of experts develop and manufacture a wide range of high-quality ambient cake products across several different categories including celebration cake, mini rolls, mince pies, fruit pies and a wide range of chilled desserts including cheesecake, crumbles and sponge cakes. These include mince pies, celebration cakes, slab cakes, cupcakes and many more!

We are passionate about our products and aim to put the customer at the heart of everything we do.

With recent investment and acquisitions taking us to nearly 1,400 direct employees, this is an exciting time to join BBF Limited! We are continually looking to grow, but we can only do that with exceptional talent across all levels and disciplines of the business. That is where you come into it!

On top of making some really tasty cakes and desserts, we do a lot of fun stuff too! Whether that be Christmas fun days, pancake-flipping competitions, Red Nose Day events or odd-sock days, you’ll be coming to work smiling.

What benefits do we offer?

Financial

· Competitive salary

· Pension

· 4x Life Assurance/Death in Service Benefit

· Access to a company benefits platform – everyday discounts and benefits

· Access to ‘Company Shop’ – a discounted re-distributor of surplus food and household products

Health & Wellbeing

· 25 days holiday per annum (plus statutory holidays)

· 24/7 Access to a GP

· 24/7 Bereavement Support

Personal & Professional Development

· Dedicated in-house Learning & Development/Training team

· Online training platform with access to 100+ training courses

A few other bits

· Quarterly and Yearly BBF Star Awards – recognising those who have gone above and beyond!

· Free on-site parking

· Free refreshments

Recruitment Agencies

All our recruitment is managed centrally via our internal recruitment team. We operate a recruitment PSL when we require assistance, and we aren’t adding to this at present. Any agency assistance will be instructed accordingly and therefore any CVs sent to any BBF Limited employee will be treated as a gift and won’t be liable for a fee. Please don’t speculatively contact us in relation to this vacancy or any other vacancy.

Expected salary:

Location: Blackburn, Lancashire

Job date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 23:19:54 GMT

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