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Quality Zone Manager

Job Posted: 2 days ago

Salary: £ Competitive
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Warrington, Cheshire

Expire in: a month

Job Description

Why Greencore?
Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.
As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.
Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.
Our Warrington site is also known as the Italian centre of excellence, recent expansion and investment make this site a state-of-the-art manufacturing unit! We produce high quality Italian ready meals for both Tesco & Co-Op.
 
What you'll be doing
As a Quality Zone Manager your role will be to lead and co-ordinate the work of the quality assurance teams to deliver and implement service improvement, in line with operational day to day needs with regards to safety, quality, legality and customer requirements.
Shift - 4 on / 4 off

Direct the team to deliver the quality management system including the internal audit plan in order to ensure compliance with customer, manufacturing unit, legislative, divisional and strategic requirements
Provide information and demonstrate operational practice in support of external audits to enable compliance with customer requirements
Continue to develop the capability of the Quality Assurance team through the technical strategy
Monitor departmental key performance indicators adjusting team activity to ensure targets are achieve
Plan and maintain resource utilisation to advise the required quality assurance tasks
Lead and deliver a project(s) to create business effectiveness and cost efficiency
Building production capability and understanding to achieve relevant technical requirements
Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set out in the Health Safety and Environment PolicyWhat we're looking for
We're proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

Educated to degree level with a Food specialism or equivalent qualification (or has relevant work experience)
Has previous internal audit experience
Holds an intermediate Food Hygiene certificate level 3 and level 3 Health and Safety
Experience in a food manufacturing environment
Ability to use computer programmes including Word, Excel and related technical IT packages
Knowledge of the HACCP principles and practice
Knowledge of allergen awareness-implications / related to labelling and nutritional awareness
Demonstratable shelf-life determination and awareness
Experience and knowledge of hygiene and disinfection principles
Can demonstrate basic micro awareness
Knowledgeable about the principles of risk assessment
Knowledgeable about legal labelling as a basic requirement
Basic knowledge of weight legislation
Knowledge of technical key performance indicatorsThese may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment.
If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.
 
What you'll get in return

Competitive salary and job-related benefits
Holidays
Pension up to 8% matched
Life insurance up to 4x salary
Company share save scheme
Greencore Qualifications
Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
Enhanced parental leave and menopause policiesThroughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.
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