Site Technical Manager

Cranswick Poultry Added Value is a specialty producer of delicious, cooked poultry ingredients and is a leading innovator in the industry. We create exciting, original products that meet the needs of today’s busy consumers.

Currently we are looking to fill two sperate positions, one at Cranswick Poultry and other at Cranswick Prepared Poultry site.

The main purpose of the role: To ensure the safety, legality and quality of all products manufactured on site and in doing so ensuring that all objectives and procedures detailed within the Quality Manual are met and are compliant to the Cranswick Manufacturing Standard, BRC Global Standard for Food Safety and Retailer Codes of Practices, and where this is not achieved that corrective action, root cause analysis and preventative actions are agreed with the appropriate area managers / supervisors and actioned.

The key elements of the role are:

• Strong working relationships are expected across all internal and external contacts.
• Provide management, direction and development for the team; ensure they are motivated, managing their workload, hitting deadlines and have the tools to complete tasks, eg training, resource, budget.
• Develop team succession, utilise and develop a pipeline of talent e.g Apprentices, Placement and Graduates.
• Coach operations, engineering, hygiene and QA teams to drive the site quality culture.
• Drive the Food Safety Culture and KPI performance of the site.
• Accountable for the site HACCP and maintenance of the Quality Management System.
• Accountable for delivering technical elements of the stage and gate product development process.
• Accountable for attaining the desired result in 3rd Party and Customer audits and visits and to ensure that the site is prepared for all known visits and audit ready every day
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of current best practice and potential use of available technology using relevant benchmark operations. Propose and implement capital expenditure projects that benefit the department and site processes to aid continuous improvement.
• Operate at Group level, making a positive contribution in any relevant forums or working parties and projects
• To provide a flexible resource to the Site Director for any other reasonable duties.
• Ensure that the Technical team, including the job holder, work an Ethical manner with everyone that works or visits the site and that people are treated with respect at all times.

Full Job Description is available upon request.