Qa manager

QA Manager

Come and join us! We currently have an exciting opportunity for a QA Manager within the Technical team at our Thetford site.

• The hours of work and shift patterns are: 10.00 - 22.00, on a 4on 4off shift rotation
• The rate of pay is: £20.70 per hour

As QA Manager your main responsibilities are to:

• Comply with and uphold all company Health and Safety Procedures.
• Manage the completion of periodic Food Safety, Quality and GMP related audits and evaluate data noting key trends etc.
• Manage and distribute relevant ad-hoc audits as deemed necessary and track completion
• Ensure that the site CCP’s are effectively managed by the Operations team in-line with the defined procedure. All deviations from procedure are to be robustly managed and brought back into control.
• Issue Non-Conformance Reports (NCR’s) where an established protocol or standard has been compromised. The NCR is to be managed by the issuing Quality Auditor/SQAM until completion of the corrective action. Where necessary sign off on corrective action should be reviewed by SQAM.
• Coaching and mentoring of operations employees on technical issues where necessary
• Competency assessments of operations employees completing CCP’s and QCP’s
• Managing non-conforming product across the site. Agreement and sign off of corrective actions where required.
• Conduct spot checks on temperatures of product on production lines as required
• Ensure compliance with all QAS/Quality Contracts
• Conduct and record all swab checks.
• To ensure key ingredients meet the required specifications through inspection upon intake.
• Ensure daily start-up checks on Checkweigher and ACS systems are completed by Quality Auditors.
• Attend Tier 2 meetings and communicate issues and cascade information both downwards from senior team to shop floor and upwards from shop floor to management where required.
• Carry out job related tasks on an ad-hoc basis as and when required.

Our Ideal candidate for this role will have:

• A solid level of Computer Literacy, Microsoft packages such as Excel, Word and Outlook
• Knowledge of Quality
• Excellent communication skills
• Food Safety Lvl 4
• HACCP Lvl 3
• Experience of Internal Auditing, Allergen Management and Root Cause Analysis
• Understanding of Microbiology
• Problem Solving Skills
• Ability to deal with conflict
• Assertiveness
• Time Management
• Junior management/supervisory training course

• Company Bus Service from Norwich, Attleborough, Wymondham and Thetford Centre
• Exclusive 2 Sisters employee discount - offering savings of up to 60% with brands including Asda, Morrisons, Marks and Spencer and Tesco.
• 50% off your total bill in all of our group restaurant brands
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Employee of the Month awards
• Fantastic development opportunities available for promotion and career development
• In-house training