Head of Technical

Site Head of Technical – Milton Keynes

Location: Milton Keynes

Contract: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £70,000 + car allowance + bonus

Are you a strategic and hands-on technical leader ready to make your mark at a key manufacturing site?

We’re looking for an experienced Site Head of Technical to lead the technical and quality agenda at our Milton Keynes site – part of The Compleat Food Group. In this senior leadership role, you’ll be responsible for delivering the technical strategy, driving standards in food safety and quality, and ensuring full compliance with customer and regulatory expectations.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading all site technical activities to deliver safe, legal, and high-quality products
• Managing and developing a high-performing technical team
• Acting as the key point of contact for customer technical relationships, visits, and audits
• Driving compliance with food safety legislation, customer COPs, and BRC standards
• Supporting NPD from a technical perspective and championing continuous improvement
• Working cross-functionally with site leadership and group colleagues to deliver aligned business goals
• Using data and KPIs to manage site performance and identify improvement opportunities
• Maintaining strong site audit results and implementing group technical strategy locally

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Proven experience in a senior technical or quality leadership role within food manufacturing (ideally chilled)
• Strong understanding of UK food safety regulations, BRC, HACCP, TACCP, and major retailer standards
• A confident leader with excellent people management, coaching, and development skills
• Experience working with major UK retailers (e.g., M&S, Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s)
• Degree-qualified in a food-related discipline, with Food Safety and HACCP Level 3
• Lead auditor trained with a commercial and continuous improvement mindset
• A collaborative approach, strong communication skills, and the ability to influence across all levels

What’s in it for you?

• Key leadership role at a flagship manufacturing site
• Opportunity to shape and deliver the technical agenda within a growing £1.1bn food group
• A culture focused on collaboration, innovation, and high performance
• Competitive salary, car allowance, and bonus
• Clear progression opportunities within The Compleat Food Group

If you're a forward-thinking technical leader who thrives in a fast-paced, high-performing environment — we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and help shape the future of food with The Compleat Food Group.

If you're a forward-thinking technical leader who thrives in a fast-paced, high-performing environment — we’d love to hear from you.

Why Join Us?

At The Compleat Food Group we’re on a mission to create tasty food that’s better for people and the planet — we call it ‘Food to Feel Good’.

We pride ourselves on being a business that gives equal emphasis to HOW we operate as well as the financial results we achieve.

Our 5,500 (and growing) fantastic people make this possible. They are passionate about creating delicious products for UK consumers, leading retailers, and our exciting, market-leading brands, including Wall’s Pastry, Vadasz, Squeaky Bean, and Unearthed.

Benefits to Include:

• 33 Days annual leave
• 2 Employee Volunteering Days per year
• Online and High-street retailer discount scheme 
• Employee well-being and community support groups
• Informal and Formal training opportunities with personalised online LMS platform
• Charity Initiatives and Team events
• 24/7 Access to Grocery Aid (Free Financial, Emotional and Practical Support)
• Physical Wellbeing Benefits – Free on demand exercise hub and various gym discounts.
• Online Wellbeing benefits
• Free Financial wellbeing – mortgage calculators, budget tools, financial aid tools
• Holiday Discounts via Online Retail Discount

The Compleat Food Group are proud to have built an inclusive and respectful culture where our colleagues feel safe, supported and valued. A place where they can bring their whole selves to work to achieve exceptional results and thrive. We continue to attract diverse talent into our teams, because we know greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life. That’s why we’re committed to ensuring Fairness, Equity, Inclusivity, and Respect in all that we do. 

Recruitment Agencies We have an active and trusted Preferred Supplier List to assist us if required. We do not acknowledge any speculative CVs or unsolicited candidate introductions.

Apply now and help shape the future of food with The Compleat Food Group.