Our client is a hugely successful produce grower/packer, supplying the UK’s leading supermarkets. Due to recent developments there is now a vacancy for a Technical and H&S Administrator. The technical team is passionate about building the knowledge into inventive ways of improving business processes. As our client expands span across the site, they will have both high care and low risk facilities, that are audited to BRC, Organic, Red Tractor, along with several customer standards. The role will support the Technical Compliance and Health and Safety with administrative tasks, as well as site inspections, testing, and keeping records up to date.
Role specific tasks
- Day to day help with administration from the technical team.
- Data analysis and trending
- Adding value to the individual accounts by helping the team with:
- BRC requirements
- Ethical requirements including SEDEX and ETI audits
- Pesticide compliance with retailers’ codes of practice
- Legal requirement under UK law
- Grower annual performance data
- Customer complaints
- Document control
- Managing Customer portals and libraries
- Managing day to day H&S checks, keeping records updated
- Auditing site on H&S standards
- Following up on H&S action plan
- Support in technical projects
Personal Skills
- Evidence of experience working in a comparable role, preferably within the fresh produce/food industry
- Strong appreciation of our business needs and resourcefulness in coming up with solutions to their challenges
- Ability to relate to key client personnel in a professional and credible fashion
- Well developed personal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate with a wide range of employees
- Creativity
- Ability to work as part of a team with colleagues across professional, operational and cultural boundaries
- Proactive approach and prompt responses to all service requests
- Ability to identify needs and issues and recommend suitable and pragmatic courses of action and solutions, adopting a risk aware approach
- Good time management and organisational skills with the ability to handle several tasks at once and meeting deadlines as required
- Very good organisational skills
- Excellent skills with Excel
If you are a relatively recent graduate (3+ years) with fresh produce or food science background, looking to get on the next step towards Technical Management we want to hear from you!
Other skills such as a can-do approach and the ability to communicate at all levels are as important for this role as your qualifications.
Don’t delay, get your application in via. this website ASAP !
