Technical Manager
Tullamore, Ireland
Full-Time
The Opportunity
Are you a seasoned Site Technical Manager or Head of Quality ready to take on a strategic leadership role where your vision can transform technical operations?
This is your chance to lead technical operations with purpose, shape a culture of continuous improvement, and drive site-wide compliance and quality to new levels.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the site's technical strategy, ensuring robust compliance with all food safety, legality, and hygiene regulations
- Inspire, engage, and develop high-performing Technical, Quality, and Hygiene teams
- Act as the senior technical authority on site-building strong cross-functional partnerships and representing the site with regulators, customers, and suppliers
- Ensure systems for HACCP, traceability, auditing, and recall are rock-solid and future-ready
- Play a key role in crisis management, product risk assessments, and customer assurance
- Influence group-wide technical standards and lead strategic quality improvement initiatives
- Manage budgets with a commercially astute mindset, delivering KPIs efficiently and effectively
Who You Are
- Proven leadership in technical or quality roles within meat manufacturing, especially in ready-to-eat (RTE) or high-care categories
- In-depth knowledge of food safety legislation, BRC/retailer standards, and Level 4 HACCP & food safety certifications
- Excellent communicator with influence from factory floor to boardroom
- Commercially aware and quality-obsessed, always seeking improvement and innovation
- A collaborative leader who develops people while driving performance
Why Join Our Client?
This is more than a compliance role-it's an opportunity to shape a critical manufacturing site's technical and quality culture. You'll have the backing of a major food group, the freedom to lead boldly, and the chance to make a significant and lasting impact.
