Site Quality Manager – Bradford (Food Manufacturing)
Are you ready for your next step in food quality leadership?
Are you a food industry Quality Manager, ready to take on your first site role? Or a Quality Team Leader, Quality Supervisor or Technical Services Manager keen to progress your career to the next stage?
THE COMPANY
This Site Quality Manager career opportunity exists with a market-leading international food business. The site is one of the Group's smaller operations, but it is an incredibly busy factory servicing a wide range of retail and B2B customers.
THE ROLE
This dynamic role has full site Quality responsibility, including remit for a small team reporting in, full budget control, and ensuring the site’s Food Safety and Legal Compliance of all the site’s products and processes.
Key responsibilities also include ..
Managing the site’s HACCP team and systems, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and standards.
Managing Customer & Supplier technical contacts ensuring ingredient, packaging & finished product specifications, together with artwork approvals, and that they are completed accurately.
Ensuring any production-related non-conformances are successfully closed out, and appropriate preventative measures are implemented.
Developing and implementing appropriate Food Safety & Quality System training of both Technical and factory staff.
Providing technical support to site project teams responsible for including New Product Developments, Continuous Improvement Projects as well as the installation and commissioning of new products and equipment.
Ensuring that the site and personal hygiene standards are maintained to a high level, including management of pest control protocols.
Continually improve product Quality & consistency.
Ensuring brand integrity is maintained at all times. ABOUT YOU
Essentially you will have recent experience of working in a fast-paced Quality team within the UK food manufacturing sector.
Supervisory experience will be key, as will working with and developing food safety and product quality systems, ideally to at least BRC Grade A standards.
You must be able to work at pace, be a critical thinker and thrive under the challenges that food manufacturing presents.
Experience of working with and supplying a wide range of customers would be ideal, including understanding of retailer protocols.
Collaborating with the wider business on NPD, Investment and Continuous Improvement Projects would be a huge advantage too.
LOCATION
This full-time role is based at Bradford (5 days a week). Due to the collaborative and operational nature of the position, regular on-site presence is key.
Please note:
Unfortunately we are unable to accommodate any Visa or Sponsorship requirements. Applicants must have full eligibility to live and work in the UK