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Quality Manager

Job Posted: 8 days ago

Salary: £ 40,000 - 45,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Greater Manchester

Expire in: 19 days

Job Description

A leading FMCG Food Manufacturer is currently recruiting for a Quality Manager to join their team. Reporting into the Technical Manager, this Quality Manager will assume responsibility for the QA team and need a driven and passionate work approach to join a growing business.

Quality Manager responsibilities include:

  * Motivate, coach and develop the QA team, and surrounding departments to achieve the business objectives on a day-to-day basis whilst achieving individual and departmental KPI’s.

  * Positively support Technical relations and successfully influence food safety/quality delivery within Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Purchasing, and NPD.

  * Provide an effective and timely resolve to all technical issues, including quality and food safety problems seeking permanent solutions to the key issues

  * Delivery of the company’s external customer and third-party approval, its food safety/quality systems, hygiene standards and due diligence defences.

  * Product safety management: Ensuring robust delivery and verification of controls around ingredient sourcing/handling, cooking and cooling methodology, QCPs, metal detecting, labelling and date coding, nutritional and micro standards

  * Ensure timely monitoring, improvement and management including trend analysis of customer & consumer complaints, supplier complaints, complaints costs, adherence to customer expectations, NC Reporting, audit findings etc.

  * Ensure delivery of technical contracts, including the micro and chemical laboratories, Pest control service, laundry, calibration and monitoring services, Technical memberships etc.

  * Ensure appropriate levels of factory compliance auditing: Such as regular GMPs, G&HP, and internal audit programmes; whilst influencing others to ensure a continuous improvement of technical culture throughout all departments.

  * Timely closure of all NCNs raised, whether from internal audits, customer visits, or 3rd party audits.

  * Health, Safety and Environment: Ensure that you and any staff under your control, adhere to all policies and procedures at all times, and stop any occasions of unsafe practice.

  * Staff training & development plans to be in place, including succession planning. Development of your teams through the method of regular 121s and Performance Development Plans

  * Driving force behind all relevant Technical KPIs of food safety and quality, including micro standards, complaints, GMP and food safety culture

  * Leading Food Safety/HACCP: To ensure the defined process CCPs & QCPs are appropriately risk assessed, defined, and strictly adhered to in all aspects of the company’s HACCP system and factory operations

  * Delivery of Customer visits, launches and Audits, ensuring top scores and minimal non conformity or on time launches; whilst ensuring that you and your team are able to competently demonstrate their role/responsibilities to an auditor/visitor.

  * Driving positive employee engagement and supporting general culture improvements by effective communication, and promoting trust and respect of all colleagues

  * Management of Employee Relations: around turnover, attendance, punctuality, code and conduct, procedural compliance

You will be a Quality Manager used to working in a fast paced food manufacturing environment and to BRC standards.

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