Title:  Site Technical Manager

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 31,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,300 farmers in Britain.Müller is ranked within the top 20 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands and is picked from shelves millions of times each year. Müller UK & Ireland includes:

Müller Milk & Ingredients which aims to be Britain’s private label dairy leader and produces branded and private label fresh milk, cream, butter and ingredients products. It boasts a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country.

Müller Yogurt & Desserts which is the UK’s leading yogurt manufacturer which aims to create millions more Müller moments for its consumers. It is responsible for major brands like Müller Corner, Müllerlight, Müller Bliss, Müller Rice, FRijj and Müller Kefir Smoothie and produces chilled desserts under licence from Mondelez International. It also supplies the UK private label yogurt market from a dedicated, state of the art yogurt facility.

Site Technical Manager

Skelmersdale – Site based

Full time, Permanent contract

We’re recruiting for a Technical Manager at our site at Skelmersdale, your purpose will be to lead the Quality Agenda across the site, ensuring adherence to customer requirements, improve product quality, drive out waste and inefficiency all whilst ensuring there is no impact on product quality, legality or safety.

Technical Manager Responsibilities: 

• Overall governance and assurance of site quality
• Create and promote a culture where our people  are enabled and empowered every day
• Creating and delivering development plan for self and team
• Enable succession pathways both up through and across organisation
• Enabling team to create and deliver Technical Strategy in line with group strategic direction
• Develop high level problem solving capability and facilitation skills throughout the function (to include crisis management)
• Responsible for creating Continuous Improvement culture and improvement opportunities for self and team
• Creates high performance by role modelling commitment to  Operational Performance Management Systems principles
• Accountable for implementation and overall governance of  end to end Quality Management System
• Looks and encourages others to find and reduce waste, in all its forms, in everything that we do
• Encourages others to seek out improvements within the workplace and convert to own CI projects
• Utilises all available opportunities, enabling others to improve the way we do things
• Collaboratively works with other  teams to improve our business
• Supports team to demonstrate CI contribution through PDP process

 What are we looking for in a Technical Manager? 

• Technical / Quality Manager experience
• Relevant knowledge and experience in a similar FMCG role is desirable
• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills
• A good technical knowledge of supermarkets food safety requirements plus a working knowledge of their systems
• Strong problem solving and root cause analysis skills
• Good knowledge of preventative maintenance techniques
• Excellent communication skills
• Proven skills in managing and developing a team.
• Team building skills and strong ability to work cross functionally
• HACCP Level 4, Food Safety Level 4

Benefits:

• Up to 15% annual bonus
• 4 x Life Assurance policy
• £550 Car Allowance or Company Car
• Partner Private Medical Insurance
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising with service) 
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Family Leave
• Enhanced Bereavement Leave
• Pension Employer Contribution Scheme (matched up to 8%)
• Exclusive access to Müller Rewards, offering a variety of online and in-store discounts

Contact Details:

F.A.O. UK Recruitment, Müller UK & Ireland, Shrewsbury Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3SQ