Finsbury Food Group
Technical Lead
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Location: Lees of Scotland, Coatbridge
Shift: Mon – Fri
Salary: Competitive
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Technical Lead to join our Site Leadership Team at Lees.
Lees has been creating much-loved confectionery and bakery products for generations. As one of Scotland's best-known food manufacturers, we're proud of our heritage while continually investing in our people, processes, and products.
The Technical Lead is a critical role to deliver maximum performance and delivery to our customers. We're looking for a passionate leader to help us drive manufacturing excellence across the site with a focus on continuous improvement and process innovation culture.
Working as part of our site leadership team, you’ll lead the Technical function, partnering closely with Quality, Production, Engineering, and Supply Chain to ensure our products consistently meet customer expectations, legislative requirements, and industry-leading standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead the advancement of the technical function to deliver maximized performance and drive a continuous improvement and process innovation culture within the site.
- Interface with the site leadership team to deliver improvement initiatives.
- Ensure consistent compliance with the site quality manual and ensure a robust HACCP system on site that ensures the maintenance of food safety systems.
- Maintain documented quality systems that meet all legislative requirements and those of Finsbury Food Group customers.
- Oversee the overall direction, coordination, and improvement/development of the site's technical strategy and its alignment with the FFG strategy, commitments, and goals.
- Lead by example in encouraging appropriate behavioral standards in support of the company’s values and culture, coaching teams in the implementation and training of the company’s systems and procedures.
- Provide ad hoc cover at other Finsbury sites as required.
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Ideal Candidate
- Degree qualified in Food Science or an equivalent discipline.
- Level 4 HACCP qualification.
- Lead Auditor qualified.
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in a similar environment at a senior level.
- Working knowledge of relevant legislation and industry standards.
- Cost and commercial awareness, conceptual thinking with an outstanding concern for quality.
- Passionate about excellence and can enthuse others.
- Strongly determined and shows tenacity when facing challenging situations and feedback.
- A self-motivator who sets their own working agenda and leads improvements.
- Strong process orientation, logical thinker, and analytical ability.
- Highly numerate and literate with the ability to understand how to make improvements through systematic root cause analysis techniques.
- Must look to continually develop their skills; networking to maintain business knowledge and skills and actively identifying development needs and resources to do so.
- Fully computer literate, with particular focus on Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Strong knowledge of business ERP system(s).
- Understanding of P&L to net profit level. Some or all experience will have been gained within a technical role, and some experience gained within a manufacturing role would be beneficial.
- Strong interpersonal & communication skills to collaborate effectively, build team consensus, and influence others.
What’s in it for you?
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival.
- Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees.
- Death in Service Benefit.
- Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families).
- Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform.
- Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – T&C’s dependent).
- Employee Recognition Awards.
- Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course).
- An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organization. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!
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About Us
At Lees, our people are the key ingredient to our success. We're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can develop, grow, and make a genuine difference. As we continue to invest in our manufacturing operations, we're looking for talented people who share our passion for food safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
If you're looking to join a business with a proud heritage and an exciting future, we'd love to hear from you.
Our vision at Finsbury is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!
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