About the Role:
We are looking for a proactive and hands-on QA Manager to join our team in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment. You’ll be actively involved on the factory floor – driving improvements, investigating incidents and non-conformances, and making key decisions on product holds and risk assessments.
Key Responsibilities:
* Champion food safety, compliance, and product integrity
* Conduct factory walks, drive improvement, and challenge practices
* Lead incident investigations and manage non-conformances
* Manage the process of holding/releasing/rejecting products based on risk assessments
* Support and lead in customer complaints and micro investigations
* Oversee the internal foreign body management system
* Support site audits and continuous improvement initiatives
Essential Experience & Knowledge:
* Experience in fast-paced food manufacturing
* Previous technical/QA roles such as QA Manager, QA Supervisor, Senior QA Technician, or Senior Technologist.
* Previous QA experience in an Operational role within food manufacturing
* Previous QA experience from Pharmaceuticals
* Proven ability to supervise, influence, and engage factory floor team
Desired Qualifications & Experience:
* Food Safety Level 3 and HACCP Level 3
* Internal auditing experience
* Familiarity with BRC requirements, and ready meal manufacturing is advantageous but not essential
Benefits
* 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
* Company pension scheme
* Company sick pay - after qualifying period
* Free onsite parking
* Exclusive employee discount platform available via an app offering savings of up to 60% with brands including Asda, Morrisons, Marks and Spencer and Tesco.
* Employee assistance programme.
* Wisdom wellbeing app
* Grocery Aid - employees access to counselling
Our Referral Incentive:
Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from us you have not been shortlisted for this role. Please continue to check our website for any other roles which may be of interest.
We offer a £500 referral if you introduce someone we place - see our website for details
We regret that this client is not prepared to sponsor work permit or work permit transfer applications. Candidates must be able to prove their eligibility to work in the UK