David Wood Baking
Assistant Technical Manger - Kearsley, Bolton
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Role: Assistant Technical Manager
Site/Location: Kearsley, Bolton
Please email your CV to the following:
sarah.kielty@dwbaking.com & hina.khan@dwbaking.com
We are looking for an experienced and qualified Assistant Technical Manager to join the Technical team in the Kearsley Site.
Job Purpose:
To ensure safety, legality, quality, and ethical integrity of all products produced at the site, by ensuring that all stages of manufacture from development, customer acceptance, and full production comply with all policies, codes of practice, legislation, and work instructions.
Shifts:
Night, Monday to Friday day-based role, working hours will be discussed in the interview.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Ensure that food is manufactured in the safest and most hygienic way by ensuring that personal and equipment hygiene standards are maintained at all times through GMP/Fabrication/Hygiene audits.
- Responsible for training and monitoring of the standards with the Quality Manager and QA.
- Hold regular factory meetings with peers to raise concerns and praise progress.
- Ensure the site is working from current up-to-date customer specifications, to achieve maximum product quality.
- Ensure that traceability is maintained at all times, and that you are correctly completing controlled documents at the prescribed intervals.
- Take action to control production until problems have been resolved, e.g., stopping production in the event of a glass breakage.
- Participate in daily taste panels and conduct final inspections including completing QAS on samples.
- Initiation of investigations and responses to customers in relation to all customer complaints in conjunction with the technical and production teams.
- Maintenance of the quality manual and all procedures therein to ensure that the quality management system complies with customer and BRC requirements.
- Ensuring all procedures in the quality manual are adhered to especially with respect to Critical Control Points.
- Ensuring microbiological testing and swabbing regimes are adhered to and food safety issues are addressed.
- Participate in factory trials (NPD and EPD) and assist with the creation and updating of internal specifications and factory documents.
- Maintain the site's BRC accreditation and complying with all customer codes of practice and audit requirements.
- Ensure good manufacturing practices, food safety, quality, and health and safety are always maintained.
- Maintaining the site's supplier approval and monitoring system.
- Ensuring process validations in relation to all of the site's CCP’s are adhered to.
- Overseeing the site's internal audit programme, ensuring audits are completed at the correct frequency.
- Participation in all factory visits and audits.
- Any other task reasonably requested by a Site Technical Manager.
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- Knowledge and understanding of the Food Safety and Quality requirements of both the business and customer.
- Ability to develop and drive quality standards.
- Ability to maintain and improve HACCP systems.
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