Technical Manager

at  Hovis

Welcome to Hovis. We are the proud guardians of over 130 years of baking experience that make up our iconic and much-loved brand. We produce bread and bakery products created with Hovis goodness at the heart of each. We deliver around 1.3million loaves, every day of the week throughout the UK and Ireland, where we also make Mothers Pride and Ormo products.
We are 2,800 people working within 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres across the UK. Our success is a result of the hard work of our people; they are experts in their field whether it’s baking, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, or the many departments within the central functions team based in our head office in High Wycombe. We are a values-led business and expect our colleagues to live, breathe, and embed Quality, Accountability, and Trust into their ways of working.
We are currently looking for an experienced Technical Manager to join our team at our Bradford Bakery. The role will be responsible for supporting Hovis to deliver its vision of the best quality products every day, enabling growth in a sustainable way and creating superior value for its stakeholders.

• To manage all aspects of Quality, Food Safety & Legality on site.
• To lead the site Hygiene Team with the Hygiene Manager.
• To drive continuously for improvement in site standards by advising site Operations and Engineering teams in technical matters, identify issues, problem solve and ensure root cause is identified and corrective and preventative actions are taken.
• Facilitate step-change thinking to sustain the Quality agenda, ensuring the continued delivery of in specification products as monitored by BQED.
• Governance of the site quality plan – ensuring timely delivery of quality improvement projects.
• Supporting the overarching complaint reduction program – providing technical governance of the complaints system and proactively supporting manufacturing.
• Providing governance of the HACCP plan and pre-requisite control programs.
• To effectively communicate emerging issues or issues that may influence product safety from wider markets.
• Coaching and mentoring of site teams to ensure that audit standards are applied consistently and appropriately.
• Ensuring timely close-out of incidents of non-conformance or appropriate vertical escalation.
• Ensure the site routine cleaning schedule is maintained, reviewed and audited in line with requirements.
• Ensure the regular plant cleans are resourced and delivered to the appropriate standards.
• To manage the segregation, storage and timely removal of all waste in line with budget.
• Oversee the hygiene and waste budgets to ensure annual forecasts are achieved.
• Instrumental in setting the annual budget – supporting the financial team to accurately deliver costs against budget , ensuring appropriate resources are made available to the technical function.
• Overarching management of the department budget.