Overview
Lead Quality Manager role at Avara Foods, Wednesbury site. The position is based in a fast-paced FMCG environment with a strong focus on product safety, quality and compliance.
About The Role
Are you passionate about Product Safety and Quality? Looking for a new challenge? The Lead Quality Manager will join the Quality team at the Wednesbury site. The role is predominantly office based, with the factory environment being fast-paced, noisy and refrigerated in some areas, manufacturing short shelf life products where hygiene standards are critical. The working pattern is Monday to Friday 08:00–17:00.
What you’ll do
As a Lead Quality Manager you’ll manage the site Technical function to ensure legal compliance, food safety, and adherence to customer specifications.
Key responsibilities
* Ensure that Quality Managers are effectively recruited, inducted, trained and managed
* Ensure that team development is in line with talent needs defined by the business technical function
* Support external audits e.g., BRCGS, Red Tractor, retailer
* Ensure that internal audit schedules are maintained and audits are completed. Communicate audit corrective action plans to relevant personnel and ensure non-conformances are signed off within agreed time scales
* Provide Operations with Technical monitoring and auditing to ensure that customer requirements are understood and achieved
* Review frequency of non-conformances to identify longer term corrective action plans
* Review specifications for all products, packaging and ingredients and ensure that all versions are current and meet customer specifications
* Investigate customer complaints of a technical nature and ensure findings and action plans are completed and communicated internally and externally
* Support effective relationships with internal and external customers including during site visits
* Provide an effective link between NPD and production ensuring that new or changed products, processes and packaging are effectively introduced
What you’ll need
* Food related HND, Advanced Food Safety Level 4 and Advanced HACCP Level 4
* Internal auditing qualification
* Experience of BRCGS or ISO 9000
* Leadership skills and experience of motivating teams
* Ability to communicate verbally and in writing at all levels
* Knowledge and experience of major retailers
Benefits
* Competitive Salary
* 31 days holiday allowance
* Secure contract with long term career development opportunities
* Straight forward pension contribution of 6%
* Life assurance scheme
* Staff sales at hugely discounted prices
* Cycle to work scheme
* Salaried Advance Finance
* Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme
* Access to our Employee Benefit Scheme, including remote GP appointments and mental health support, physiotherapy, medical second opinion, and other discounts
What happens after you apply
After you’ve applied, you’ll be contacted by a Resourcing Officer at our Wednesbury site to discuss your application and CV further. There’ll also be a chance for you to ask questions about the role.
If you’re ready to work in a dynamic environment alongside talented people who take pride in delivering great results, apply today!
We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer.
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