Extrusion Manager

Extrusion Manager | Mackle Food Company 📍 Dungannon, Northern Ireland | Full-time, On-site We are looking for an experienced Extrusion Manager to join our production team at Mackle Food Company. This is a key operational role with technical ownership of our extrusion and flavouring processes, with a strong focus on safety, product quality, process efficiency and team development. Key Responsibilities:

• Process Ownership – Manage the product flow from raw materials through extrusion and flavouring, ensuring efficient and consistent processing.
• Safety & Compliance – Maintain high standards of Health & Safety, GMP and hygiene across the extrusion and flavouring areas, ensuring continuous audit readiness.
• Asset & Tool Control – Maintain strict control, logging and secure storage of extrusion dies, blades, screws and other critical processing components.
• Flavour & Stock Management – Oversee accurate application of flavours and oils, stock management and traceability documentation.
• Team Development – Own the technical training matrix and ensure operators are fully trained and competent across extrusion and flavouring processes.
• Yield & Waste – Drive improvements in yield, efficiency and waste reduction while identifying opportunities to reduce processing costs.
• NPD Collaboration – Work closely with our Product Development team to support trials, scale-up and successful launches of new products. What we're looking for:
• Minimum 3 years' experience leading large teams within a production environment
• Strong manufacturing and process-management experience
• Extrusion experience is desirable
• Strong focus on food safety, quality, efficiency and continuous improvement
• Ability to lead, develop and support production teams This is not an exhaustive list of duties, and the post holder may be required to undertake other reasonable tasks as directed by the Factory Manager. Mackle Food Company reserves the right to expand the short-listing criteria to facilitate the recruitment process.