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 Food Industry Interim Manager - Technical, Quality Assurance, BRC, EFSIS, HACCP & Specifications  

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Interim Management

Providing a trained and experienced resource at short notice to provide essential management cover for maternity leave, long-term illness, sudden departures, busy periods, etc. 

  • Technical management.

  • Quality assurance management.

  • Operations management.

  • New product development.

  • Process development.

  • Project management.

Project Management

An extra resource to provide much needed support during times of rapid expansion or change.

  • Commissioning of new equipment.

  • Product launches.

  • New sites / site transfers.

  • Restructuring / new systems of work.

  • Additional support for existing management team.

Process Optimisation

A fresh pair of eyes to advise on and help to implement process improvements.

  • Increased efficiency.

  • Waste reduction / line optimisation.

Quality Management Systems

To design, implement, maintain or improve quality management systems to meet ISO 9001, BRC, EFSIS and/or retailer technical requirements.

  • Design of effective new quality systems to meet or exceed any standard.

  • Overhaul of existing systems to bring them up to the required standard.

  • Pre-audits and independent quality systems reviews.

Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP)

HACCP systems are a requirement of all the major food retailers and the BRC and EFSIS technical standards.

HACCP provides a substantial part of your due diligence defence to enforcement authorities and will shortly become a legal requirement.

  • Design of comprehensive yet easy-to-maintain HACCP systems, including: 

    • Process flow diagrams

    • Hazard identification

    • CCP identification

    • Establishing targets and tolerances

    • Control measures

    • Monitoring procedures

    • Corrective actions

    • Records

  • Assistance with incorporating HACCP control measures into your existing systems.

  • HACCP audits and reviews.

Specifications

Completing customer technical specifications on your behalf, or training your employees to do so.

  • Experience with all the major (and many minor) retailer specification formats and systems including: 

    • Web-Traqs

    • Inspire

    • Tesco Technical Library

    • FIND

    • QSA

    • RedSky IT

  • Good knowledge of food labelling and other legal requirements.

  • Calculating nutrition information and composing ingredient declarations.

Audits

A trained lead assessor to conduct audits on your behalf or complement your existing audit team.

Completely unbiased, independent and confidential with full audit report including recommended corrective actions.

  • Internal audits:

    • Quality system audits.

    • HACCP system audits/reviews.

    • Hygiene audits.

    • Pre-audits - don't wait for your customers to highlight inadequacies!

  • External audits:

    • Audits of prospective new suppliers' manufacturing facilities and processes.

    • Routine audits of existing suppliers' manufacturing facilities and processes.

    • Anywhere in the UK or World.

New Product Development

  • Support can be given to conduct new product development trials.

  • Transfer of production between sites and also from kitchen to full scale production.

  • Guidance for successful customer product launches.

Process Development

  • Factory scale-up of development concepts / kitchen samples.

  • Planning and supervising product development trials.

  • Writing procedures/instructions and training staff.

  • Co-ordinating and attending first productions/product launches.

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