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Technical Manager

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Location Bodmin
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

Technical Manager

📍 Location: Bodmin

We’re looking for an experienced Technical Manager to lead food safety, quality, and compliance at site level, ensuring the highest standards are met across all operations.

As part of the senior leadership team, you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering the site’s technical strategy while managing customer relationships and leading a high-performing technical team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and deliver the site technical strategy aligned to business goals
  • Own site food safety, quality, and integrity standards
  • Manage and develop HACCP, TACCP, VACCP, traceability and QMS systems
  • Drive audit readiness, compliance, and continuous improvement
  • Lead internal and external audits, ensuring robust close-out of actions
  • Manage customer relationships and technical interfaces
  • Deliver KPI reporting, trend analysis, and improvement plans
  • Oversee hygiene, pest control, and specifications processes
  • Develop, coach, and lead the technical team

Essential Criteria

  • Proven experience in a Technical/Quality leadership role within FMCG
  • Strong knowledge of food safety legislation and industry standards
  • Experience managing audits, customer visits, and quality systems
  • Working knowledge of HACCP, TACCP and VACCP
  • Strong leadership and people management skills
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management
  • IT literacy (including Excel)

Desirable Criteria

  • Degree in Food Science or related discipline
  • Level 4 Food Safety and HACCP
  • Internal auditing qualification
  • Experience with environmental systems (e.g. IPPC)
  • Knowledge of continuous improvement tools and cost control
  • Awareness of ethical trading (e.g. SEDEX)

Pilgrim’s Europe produces some of the best-known and most iconic brands in the UK and Ireland, including Fridge Raiders, Rollover, Denny, Richmond, Oakhouse and Moy Park, alongside a diverse range of industry leading own-label products in categories including fresh pork, lamb and chicken, working with all the major retailers and food service outlets.

Our portfolio extends to authentic chilled and frozen ready meals, snacking ranges, added value and food service products.

Across Pilgrim’s Europe we combine 20,000 of the best people in the industry, united by a shared set of core values and a passion for producing the highest quality, most delicious and innovative food, which is enjoyed by millions of people in the UK, Ireland and Europe every day. Our Pilgrim’s Europe team are based in our Pilgrim’s UK, Moy Park, Pilgrim’s Food Masters and Pilgrim’s Shared Services businesses.

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