Technical Improvement Manager

1 day ago


Tauranga, New Zealand Madison Recruitment Full time

Senior Role
- Regular Travel
- Food manufacturing company

Our client is an Australian family owned food manufacturing company. They describe themselves as a delicious hidden gem within New Zealand’s manufacturing community. Their principals are to source the best ingredients to produce exceptional quality standards and to continually strive for “what’s next” to treat their customers with the next sweet or savoury delight

We are currently looking for a stand out Technical Improvement Manager to join the team. If you are ready for your next role where you are keen to drive continuous improvement, ensuring the highest quality is maintained and never accepting the status quo then this might be the role for you.

**About the role**:

- Managing day to day activities of the technical department across the new New Zealand based facilities
- Lead the quality assurance and continuous improvement function
- Assist with strategic developments
- Provide supoprt to the Production Supervisor and NPD Lead in production commercialisation
- Training and development of Quality Assurance

Everything technical within the compnay will sit with you. This includes technical budgets, quality, hygiene, innovation, labelling and so on.
You will be an integral part of the national operations team, reporting to the National Operations Manager. This role is Tauranga based with the requirement to travel to the South Island site approximately once every 6-8 weeks.

**About You**:
To be successful in this role you will need:

- Extensive experience in managing the technical processes within the food industry
- Ideally hold a food related qualification
- Have a deep understanding of legislative standards including FZANZ and compliance standards such as BRC and HACCP.
- Have hands on, practical experience in a similar (quality) role
- Be big on team work and continuous improvement
- Be able to create and maintain strong relationships
- Fast decision maker with good judgement and attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Tech savvy and well organised

**Benefits**:

- Competitive remuneration
- All expenses paid for work travel
- Phone and Laptop
- Staff BBQ’s and gatherings


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