Senior Quality Manager Location: Golborne, Warrington (WA3) Permanent Up to £75,000 dependant on experience Benefits package; Generous pension contributions, Bonus, Life Assurance, Employee Christmas vouchers, PerkBox High Street brand discounts, Long service awards, Subsidised onsite canteen. At ALPLA, we stand for high-quality plastic packaging throughout the world. Around 22,000 colleagues produce quality packaging for foodstuffs, cosmetics and industrial cleaning brands for many blue-chip clients across 182 ALPLA sites in 45 countries. Job Purpose: We are seeking a Senior Quality Manager to lead, oversee and continually enhance our Quality functions. This is a senior level role responsible for driving Quality performance across the business, championing continuous improvement, and embedding robust quality processes throughout manufacturing operations. This role will have 3 direct reports and 20 indirect reports. We are looking for a confident, influential leader with a strong manufacturing background, capable of managing and developing a team of QC Inspectors, Quality Coordinators, Quality Production Managers and Quality Systems teams. The ideal candidate will bring a balanced blend of Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) experience, influence senior stakeholders, and guide the organisation toward best practice. This role places a significant emphasis on leadership, mentorship, and people development. Key Responsibilities: Senior Quality Manager Leading and developing the Quality Team, providing coaching, mentoring and support to ensure high performance and capability across QA and QC functions. Driving continuous improvement of quality processes, systems, and tools, ensuring alignment with applicable standards such as ISO 9001 -FSSC 22000. Overseeing the Integrated Management System, ensuring changes are communicated and embedded across relevant stakeholders. Managing quality inspection activity, ensuring accurate and timely reporting to internal and external stakeholders. Investigating Customer Complaints and NCRs, identifying root causes and ensuring corrective actions are implemented to prevent recurrence. Leading internal audit programmes and participating in third-party and customer audits. Conducting risk-based assessments (e.g., FMEA) to identify and mitigate potential process failures. Analysing Quality performance data, identifying trends, and recommending improvement actions. Promoting collaboration, open communication and best practice sharing across the organisation. Ensure robust corrective actions (RCA) are implemented, provide quality management training and support across the organisation. Forms close working relationships with local and regional OPEX teams, regional Quality teams to ensure corporate systems and processes are embedded into daily work. Key Requirements: Senior Quality Manager Strong background in a manufacturing environment ideally from a Plastics, Food or Pharmaceutical background this is essential and central to the role with a Blend of Quality Assurance and Quality Control experience. Proven leadership capability, including team management, coaching and mentoring Experience managing and improving Quality Management Systems. Experience in root-cause analysis, lean manufacturing tools, internal audits, and risk-based quality methodologies (e.g., FMEA) Degree Qualified in either a Science, Quality Management, or technical related degree. Ideally you will hold or are working towards a lean six sigma qualification. Additional Information: Life assurance from day one Bonus scheme Company Pension scheme Subsidised canteen Training and Development Support Maternity and paternity pay scheme Christmas vouchers for you and your children Long service awards Our new perk box offering a wealth of benefits such as: - Money off purchases such as food, drink, cinema, tickets, clothing, and homeware and so much more A number of freebies across the perk box site, such as free coffees Online access to free exercise and yoga classes with 24/7 access to qualified therapists Contact Nathan Turtington UK Internal Recruiter for more information.