Technical Coordinator - Food

Senior Technical Coordinator – Food Manufacturing FTC-12 months

Ready for your next step in food quality?

Happy to commit to a 12-month Fixed Term Contract for a small, yet dynamic food business, which is part of a much larger, market-leading and international food organisation?

Do you have food manufacturing quality experience supporting BRC-certified food safety and Quality systems?

The Company

This Senior Technical Coordinator career opportunity exists with a market-leading international food business. The site is one of the Group's smaller operations, but it is an incredibly busy factory servicing a wide range of retail and B2B customers.

The Role

Your remit includes co-ordinating the technical product launch process and approval systems, providing support and ensuring customer requirements are met. Devise and implement continual improvement systems ensuring products and quality systems are continually updated & maintained to meet the requirements of both the British Retail Consortium certification & and the site’s customers' standards and protocols.

Responsibilities include;

Raw Materials, Packaging & Specifications (FG & RMs)

• To manage the site's raw material specification and approval systems, liaise with the ingredient/packaging suppliers and internal contacts to gather food & packaging information and to interpret this data, ensuring compliance with internal standards.

• Maintain up-to-date supplier details, including self-assessment questionnaires and up-to-date BRC certificates and reports.

• To support the site's internal Packing Specification system, ensuring all required information is available to Production before the scheduled first production run.

• To co-ordinate the site's finished products specifications, ensuring they are accurately & continually updated in either the internal standard or customer-specified format, including web portal systems management - portal alerts, to support FP Spec ensuring accuracy.

• Packaging compliance – Monitor incoming packaging against customer approved PDF to ensure accuracy and compliance for the production team

• Manage the site's allergen management system, ensuring adherence to validation and verification schedules, whilst ensuring accuracy against customer COP

NPD and Launch

• To support New Product Development launches through the provision of all the required quality system documents, approval of the technical aspects of pack copy & artwork sign off, ensuring legal labelling requirements are met.

Haccp

• To be a fully integrated member of the HACCP team, support the sites HACCP system by carrying out food safety audits as required on both existing and new processing lines and products. Carry out, and help to develop the administration for all HACCP documentation.

Quality Admin

• To manage the site calibration system.

• To order QA consumables and maintain adequate stock levels at all times.

• The management and scheduling of micro and nutritional testing to ensure everything is tested.

• Ensure on site nutritional and chemical testing schedules are reviewed and maintained.

• Manage the sites calibrations, ensuring adherence and accuracy to scheduling. Liaising with external suppliers.

• Manage the sites product testing programs (micro / nutritional / allergens).

• Shelf life – EOL Assessment and validation of new products where appropriate.

BRC & Quality Systems

• To support the sites BRC certified Food Safety & Quality System through carrying out internal audits, implementing corrective actions and compiling and issuing monthly internal Quality System reports. Providing ongoing support and training for the site internal audit team.

Continuous Improvement, KPIs & Customer Complaints

• To carry out continuous improvement projects as detailed by the sites Technical Manager on relevant topics, e.g. Food Safety, Allergen Management, Hygiene Improvements, Quality Systems, Process Control and recipe improvements.

• To support the customer and consumer complaints group systems, including providing monthly reports and identifying trends to enable effective corrective actions to be identified to reduce and/or eliminate the root causes.

• To support the group systems for monthly Key Performance Indicator reports in customer-specific formats. Conduct scorecard population and submission to meet customer requirements.

• Support implementation and review, where appropriate, of customer and legislative current and new requirements for site.

• Co-ordinate the site's pest control contractors and implement and drive continual improvement through corrective and route cause analysis.

Wider Site Support

• To provide Food Safety & QA support in the multifunctional project teams for the installation and commissioning of new equipment.

• To deputise, in relation to site function for the Quality Manager.

• Provide production technical support where appropriate eg. g., metal drop investigations / HACCP / Allergens/quality incidents / investigative work / DPA

About You

Essentially, you will have some recent experience of UK food manufacturing in a Quality role, working in a very busy Quality team within the UK food manufacturing sector.

Ideally, you will have at least 2 years of food-manufacturing quality experience (1 year can be on placement whilst studying).

Ideally, you will have a Food-related degree, or similar.

Essentially, you must have experience working to BRC accreditations and ideally supplying UK retailers.

You will be an integral member of a small, yet dynamic Quality team.  The ability to work and effectively manage your busy working day is key.  You must also be a critical thinker and thrive under the challenges that food manufacturing presents.

Experience of working with and supplying a wide range of customers would be ideal, including understanding of retailer protocols.

Experience collaborating with the wider factory team, on product launches and wider site projects, would be a huge advantage too.

Location

This full-time role is based at Bradford (5 days a week), Monday - Friday.

Salary

Up to £33,000 + benefits