Technical Assistant

Welcome to Hovis. We are the proud guardians of over 130 years of baking experience that make up our iconic and much-loved brand. We produce bread and bakery products created with Hovis goodness at the heart of each. We deliver around 1.3million loaves, every day of the week throughout the UK and Ireland, where we also make Mothers Pride and Ormo products. We are 2,800 people working within 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres across the UK. Our success is a result of the hard work of our people; they are experts in their field whether it’s baking, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, or the many departments within the central functions team based in our head office in High Wycombe. We are a values-led business and expect our colleagues to live, breathe, and embed Quality, Accountability, and Trust into their ways of working. Role Purpose: To support the Technical department in the management of the compliance, systems, food safety culture, providing governance of food safety, quality, process, legal and customer requirements. To work with Site Technical and Operations teams ensure the efficient production of safe and legal food. Key accountabilities include: * Promote and maintain high standards of food safety culture, promote and challenge site GMP standards including Technical, Food Safety, Quality, Compliance and Business values. * Support with functional and cross-functional projects and continuous improvement activities. * Support the Technical department and site with document creation and review which may include records, procedures, and communication boards. * Complete audits on bakery GMP standards & Technical compliance such as G&HP, CCP, Process controls, Canteen, Mobile phone audits, paperwork completion etc. as per schedule. Including action logging and chase closure within given timeframe. * To assist the Compliance Manager with complaint investigations and trending of complaints data and to lead the complaints (Right firs