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About The Role
Our Department Managers are leaders who thrive in a fast-paced environment and take pride in delivering great food to our customers. Regardless of the department, they all share a common goal: ensuring quality, safety, and excellence in every area of our operations. Are you ready to take on the challenge?
Reporting to the Site Technical Manager, you’ll play a critical role in overseeing and guiding the technical team across all departments. Your focus will be on driving compliance with Myton Food Group's manufacturing standards and technical procedures while leading the team to deliver exceptional results.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure food safety, legality, quality, and integrity for all our customers and brands, maintaining compliance with legal, BRC, and MMS standards
- Lead the investigation and reporting of adverse microbiological results, implementing corrective actions where required
- Oversee and manage product information through the M-Create portal
- Take ownership of the site HACCP Plan, ensuring it is effective and up to date
- Provide expert advice and support to colleagues on technical and compliance-related issues
- Develop, implement, and maintain technical policies and procedures applicable to the site
- Proactively manage site trends and risks, ensuring early intervention and resolution
- Play an instrumental role in achieving and maintaining site accreditations
- Manage the internal audit process and oversee site process validations and document control systems
- Collate and analyse site information for weekly, monthly, and yearly reporting purposes.
About You
As well as the ability to work at pace, you will also need to have:
- Relevant experience or a degree in science, food technology, chemistry, microbiology, engineering, manufacturing or business
- Knowledge of safety, legality, compliance and quality across supply chain and produce range     Â
- Previous experience/knowledge of high risk coupled with thermal processing knowledge/experience
- Strong analytical and decision making skills
- Excellent communication skills and solution focussed problem solver
- A proven track record of people management and delivering strong results through a team in a people management role
- Excellent communication skills
- A can do attitude and a strong work ethic
In return for your hard work we will offer you:
- Six weeks holiday (including bank holidays)
- 15% discount in our stores available from the day you join usÂ
- Additional 10% discount More Card for a friend or family member
- Career progression and development opportunities
- Subsidised staff canteenÂ
- Free parking
- Market leading pension and life assurance
- Healthcare/Well-being benefits including Aviva Digital GP
- Morrisons MyPerks with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more
- Long Service AwardsÂ
- Optional Payroll charity donationsÂ
- Enhanced Family/maternity/parental leave
About The Company
You’ll find a great big welcome here at Myton Food Group - the part of our business that looks after manufacturing, whilst maintaining strong roots within Morrisons Supermarkets.
At Myton Food Group, we have a legacy to be proud of. We’re British farming’s biggest single direct customer. We buy from highly valued suppliers. And we’re passionate about the quality of our food. Today, we have 19 manufacturing sites across the UK, where we pack and process fresh meats and fish, savoury and sweet pies, fruit and veg, flower bouquets, bread and lots more.
We really do stand out in the world of food manufacturing. But what we’re especially proud of is the way we all get stuck in and work as a team, in partnership across our supply chain. Read more about what we do at our Myton Food Group website.
