Quality Shift Manager - Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S26 5PF
Permanent - Full-Time Salary: Negotiable
Why Greencore?
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 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY24, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.8bn.
Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.
At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development. We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.
Our site in Kiveton employs over 500 and is the UK's largest quiche bakery, producing more than 42 million quiche each year along with a wide range of ready meals.
What you'll be doing
Shift: Nights - Monday to Friday (21:30 - 05:30)
As Quality Shift Manager, you will lead the work of the quality assurance (QA) night shift team, to deliver and implement service improvement in line with operational day to day needs with regards to safety, quality, legality and customer requirements.
* Direct the team to deliver the quality management system (QMS), 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 QA team through the technical strategy
* Monitor departmental key performance indicators, adjusting team activity to ensure targets are achieved
* 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 Policy
What we're looking for
At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.
* Able to work Nights
* Experience in a food manufacturing environment
* Desired: degree level with a Food specialism or equivalent qualification or relevant work experience
* Previous internal audit experience
* Holds an intermediate Level 3 Food Hygiene and Level 3 Health and Safety certificate
* Ability to use computer programmes including Word, Excel and related technical IT packages
* Knowledge of the Hazard analysis and critical control points (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 KPI's
If this sounds like you, join us and 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 policies
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.