Technical Director

Our client is a successful supplier to the brewing industry based in the UK, with additional sites in Europe.

Based in the East of the UK, they are looking to recruit a credible senior technical leader to become Technical Director, who will lead the technical, quality assurance and laboratory functions, ensuring the business is recognised by customers as a trusted supplier of consistently high-quality products to the brewing and distilling industries.

Key duties and responsibilities will include:
• Technical governance, quality assurance and compliance – ensuring a consistent application of the technical and quality strategy, governance framework and risk priorities
• Laboratory and quality assurance leadership – providing leadership, objectives and priorities for the Laboratory Manager and quality assurance resource, with clear accountabilities, development plans and succession arrangements.
• Production, procurement and quality optimisation – including defining technical and quality standards, setting meaningful KPI’s and reporting performance, risks and improvement priorities.
• Manage customer and technical relationships – including acting as the senior technical authority for key brewing and distilling customers, building confidence in the company’s products, controls and expertise.
• Industry, innovation and leadership – represent the company with trade associations, technical committees, regulators, research organisations and academic institutions, including MAGB activities where appropriate.

Qualifications, skills and experience:

Essential
• Degree or equivalent professional expertise in a relevant scientific, technical, brewing, distilling, food science, cereals or engineering discipline.
• Competency to work at senior-level process-manufacturing, including accountability for technical standards, quality assurance and/or laboratory services.
• Demonstrable knowledge of quality systems, audit management, corrective and preventive action, food or feed safety and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Ability to lead and coach technical specialists and managers, managing budgets and influencing senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to travel to client sites and customer, supplier and industry locations as required.

Desirable
• Recognised malting, brewing, distilling or relevant postgraduate qualification, with direct experience of malting operations and customer specification systems.

Applications from candidates already eligible to work in the UK only please.

For more information, please contact Julie Carling at Carling Recruitment
julie.carling@carlingrecruitment.com
Tel +44 (0)1483893100.