Technical Manager

Technical Manager

Location: Coupar Angus

Salary: Highly Competitive + Benefits

About Us

Join 2 Sisters Food Group, one of the UK's largest food manufacturers with over £3 billion turnover and 13,000 colleagues across 16 sites.

Our Coupar Angus site is a key poultry processing facility supplying high-quality fresh products to leading UK retailers and food service customers. We are committed to the highest standards of food safety, quality, and customer service.

About the Role

We're looking for a Technical Manager join our busy poultry manufacturing site in Coupar Angus, reporting directly into the Head of Technical. This is a key site leadership role with responsibility for managing the Quality, Hygiene and Compliance functions.

This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for delivering day-to-day technical performance, ensuring compliance with food safety, quality systems, legislation, and customer standards.

You'll lead the team in a fast-paced environment, making sound decisions to maintain site standards and customer confidence.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership ensuring robust quality management systems and legal compliance
• Lead and develop the technical teams, with full accountability for performance, conduct, and capability
• Monitor and report KPIs, driving improvement through trend analysis
• Lead investigations into complaints, rejections and non-conformances, ensuring effective root cause analysis and preventative actions
• Manage internal and external audits, ensuring timely close-out of actions
• Work cross-functionally with production and technical teams to maintain standards and share best practice
• Support customer visits and third-party audits, ensuring corrective actions are implemented
• Maintain effective pest control, hygiene and environmental standards

About You

You'll have strong technical experience in food manufacturing, ideally within poultry or short shelf-life environments. You'll be comfortable leading teams, working at pace, and making clear, risk-based decisions.

Key Skills

• Strong technical and operational experience in food manufacturing
• Proven root cause analysis and problem-solving ability
• Experience leading and developing teams
• Ability to analyse data and drive improvements
• Confident communicator with strong cross-functional influence
• Organised and resilient under pressure

Key Qualifications

• Food Safety Level 4
• HACCP
• Lead Auditor certification

Benefits

• 33 days annual leave including bank holidays
• Refer a friend scheme
• Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme and Grocery Aid
• Boparan Restaurant Group Discount - 50% off for friends and family
• Cycle2Work Scheme