Quality Manager
Location: Newbury, Berkshire
Salary: £40,000 pa - £44,000 pa
Great opportunity to join a dynamic food business that can offer training and career advancement. This well-established business has a positive company culture where every employee is valued and encouraged to take part in meetings where strategy and goals are set.
The Role
* Work Monday to Friday 7.30am – 4:00pm
* Ensure compliance with UK legislation and customer codes of practices.
* Manage Internal audits.
* Manage plant and product swab and micro testing programme.
* Manage complaints & Non-conformance management.
* Develop and organise food safety staff training across the business [in conjunction with HR and our external training resources].
* Ensure the QA team does a monthly internal audit and ensure all audits are completed.
* Maintain the Quality Management System Manual of policies and procedures to ensure compliance with BRC v9.
* Support the Chair of HACCP and QA Meetings to ensure regular meetings and reviews.
* Check duties are undertaken by QA Assistant and other staff allocated to support the QA Team.
* Ensure Health & Safety guidelines are maintained at all times inclusive of HACCP.
The Person
* Need Chilled or Ambient food manufacturing experience.
* Need some experience supervising a direct report [1 or 2 to start].
* Ideally hold HACCP and Hygiene to level 3.
* Ideally hold Internal Auditing qualification and experience.
* Able to start work earlier or start later one day a week to carry out spot checks. Ref 3460
This vacancy is commutable from: Greenham, Newbury, Reading, Basingstoke, Thatcham, Tadley, Andover, Baghurst, Hook, Fleet, Farnborough, Tidworth, Marlborough, Swindon