Technical Manager
Greencore · Boston, Lincolnshire
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This role sits inside real technical governance: HACCP compliance, BRC certification, customer specification sign-off and audit programmes for a site supplying major UK retailers. The products made at this site are ready to eat salads, prepared vegetables and snacks, so the direct lever here does not touch meat, dairy, egg or seafood sourcing decisions. The value of a role like this is mainly as a bridge: it builds genuine technical credibility, BRC and HACCP fluency, retailer relationships and specification literacy that could carry into a technical or quality role at a business handling animal-derived or other higher-impact categories, where those same skills would sit much closer to decisions about sourcing standards, supply chain resilience and sustainability.
Where this role can take you
What this job teaches you, and the jobs it can lead to.
What you'd build
- HACCP and food safety governance
- BRC certification delivery experience
- Retailer technical/customer code interpretation
- Internal audit programme management
- Root cause analysis and quality investigation
Where it can lead
- Senior Technical Manager
- Head of Technical
- Technical Compliance Manager
Senior technical leadership roles set the specifications and audit standards a wider supplier base must meet, giving more direct sway over what a manufacturer will accept from its supply chain.
About the role
This is a Technical Manager role at Greencore's Boston, Lincolnshire site, which employs around 400 people producing ready to eat salads, prepared vegetables and snacks for retailers including Coop, Boots, Greggs, Costco, Spar and BOL. The postholder manages the site's technical function, ensuring all materials and finished products are safe and conform to specification, legislation and customer requirements. Core responsibilities include controlling the operational process and production of finished goods via Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) to ensure food safety and customer standards compliance; ensuring technical governance is in place to deliver audit compliance against internal, external, legal and customer requirements; investigating key deviations from process and customer specification and taking corrective action; monitoring departmental KPIs and driving improvement; interfacing with customers during site visits, audits and business reviews; and providing leadership to keep the technical team safe, engaged, developed and delivering to potential, while maintaining a safe working environment per the Health, Safety and Environment policy. Essential and desired requirements include experience working in high care environments; a desired degree in Food Science, Food Technology or a Microbiological qualification; Advanced food hygiene level 4 (or equivalent) and level 4 HACCP qualifications; basic allergen awareness; demonstrable technologist-level experience working with a retailer, including interpretation of customer code of practice and use of customer technical databases; experience maintaining an internal audit programme and a quality management system; experience of technical strategy implementation; demonstrable experience delivering BRC certification (or equivalent standards); root cause analysis skills; experience managing supplier auditors and customers; ability to evaluate and interpret shelf-life results; and experience applying food legislation to manufacturing practice. The role is permanent, full time, based on site in Boston. Benefits include a competitive salary and job-related benefits, holidays, matched pension contributions, life insurance up to 4x salary, a company share save scheme, Greencore Qualifications, an employee discount platform, a Wellbeing Centre platform, and enhanced parental leave and menopause policies.
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How to position yourself
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Frame your interest around food safety governance, specification compliance and retailer relationship management - the skills this role sharpens (HACCP, BRC certification delivery, audit programme ownership, root cause analysis) are exactly what technical and quality functions across the food industry look for, including in categories closer to animal welfare and sustainability agendas. Build and highlight your BRC, HACCP and customer code of practice experience as transferable credentials for a future move into a technical role with meat, dairy or protein category scope.
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