Requirements:Powders experience requiredSalary up to €60k (depending on experience)

​A key leadership vacancy forming a pivotal part of the site leadership team, reporting to the site director. This role will directly manage and lead the technical, quality and hygiene teams. The incumbent will ensure the creation of a compelling vision and technical strategy aligned to business and group priorities, ahead of market competition, that empowers people to deliver the strategy and ensures that the technical policies and procedures comply with and focus on food safety, legality, quality and hygiene. The role takes responsibility for a very broad range of cross functional influence across the site, to ensure that the highest standards of food safety of our products and processes are maintained and improved.Key AccountabilitiesOverall responsibility for the site’s technical objectives with a focus to drive food safety; legality; raw material and product quality; customer, product and hygiene standards. Process improvements and customer technical & associated commercial relationshipsDevelop a proactive compelling technical strategy, aligned to group priorities but also with a focus on excellence in quality, that enthuses the customers and is practical for deliveryCreating a high performance, collaborative and empowered culture influencing effectively at all levels at site and across the business matrixDeveloping effective talent pipelines within the function, through people development, coaching and mentoringEnsuring effective working relations and providing key senior technical interface with cross-functional and internal/external stakeholders; customers, government organisations, NGO’s, laboratory, business critical raw material suppliersProviding clear, concise and accurate advice in the areas of food safety, legality and the environment thereby minimising the company’s exposure to risk and lossEnsuring the operation of the technical, quality and hygiene auditing functions attain minimum legislative, business and customer requirementsResponsibility in the effective management of site business continuity and crisis management, inclusive of public recall situationControl the development and implementation of HACCP and quality management systemsEnsuring departmental functions are effective and efficient in their roles, ensuring business and customer requirements are met or to cease production that is not compliant with technical policies and proceduresResponsibility for food safety, quality and technical issues from intake, process, production through to dispatchDrive the completion of the site and customer’s KPI’s, whilst ensuring they are fit for purposeOverall responsibility for traceability and documentation controlBudget managementSkills and Experience RequiredSignificant experience of working in a strategic site technical leadership role within a meat manufacturing factory environmentA senior operator who understands the fundamentals of all associated technical disciplines and has experience of engaging, leading and motivating technical and hygiene teamsTechnically and commercially astute, safety and legality focusedDetailed understanding of the context of and compliance with UK legislation and directives in relation to areas governing food safety, legality and the environmentA proactive, change orientated leader with good inter-personal skills, who will ‘sell’ technical visions passionately to customers, teams and employees and embrace and effect changeAble to develop and lead the technical function effectively, employing coaching and mentoring and effective talent succession planningAn ability to communicate effectively and influence at all levels, plus a proactive collaboration with other disciplines within the businessLevel 4 HACCP and food safety is essentialDecision-maker, able to exercise judgement and take responsibility for the consequences of actions and decisionsA continuous improvement mindset​

This company is a leading producer of chilled products.