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 Pharmacutical 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