Quality Assurance Manager - Middleton-Employment, career opportunity in Uk

Job Title:   Quality Assurance Manager Manager - Middleton
Job Type:    Permanent
Location:    Manchester
Start Date:    ASAP
Salary:    £35k pa
Ref No:    17102-56042NK32_106509
Date Posted:    26th Sept 2013


Vacancy Description:

Positions status: Permanent
Position information
Location:Middleton, Manchester

Business Context & Background

Our Client is a dynamic international business operating in the Food Enhancers' category, Their business delivers both iconic branded and own label products comprising vinegars, pickles, relishes and sauces. With a turnover in excess of £100m, they have engaged in a rapid acquisition and organic led growth strategy creating new opportunities for energetic, innovative and forward thinking staff to join the UK operating division. They are seeking applications from candidates striving for a position where they can personally change things, continuously challenge the status quo, and drive products to become category forerunners.

Key areas of responsibility

Safety, Quality, Hygiene
-Compliance of products, processes & personnel to current EU and UK food safety legislation
-Manage, update, communicate & audit for compliance to quality, safety and GMP standards.
-To advise on food safety issues, managing HACCP studies and first production runs.
-Assist QA team with Trading Standards, local EHO, accreditation bodies & retail customers site audits, enquiries and complaints. Drive and maintain GMP standards, communicating requirements to site teams.
-Promote & encourage a culture of high standards in food safety and quality, leading by example.
-Personally demonstrate the correct safety behaviours, ensuring safe operating practices are followed.
-Support site initiatives to reduce accidents and near misses.
-Participate in safety and quality audits, documenting non-conformances & driving corrective actions.
-With service provider, ensure compliance for effective pest control and hygiene standards

People Management
-Develop team in awareness of site processes, materials, factory and business activity.

Operations Management
-Support the QA team and laboratories, responsible for testing and releasing/rejection or downgrading of raw materials and finished product. Monitor quality with reference to agreed materials specifications to ensure that standards of product safety & quality are maintained
-Improve and maintain systems and controls to ensure that food safety & quality of product is at the forefront of all activities.
-Monitor, by auditing, compliance to agreed CTOPs, site quality procedures, product- & process-specifications.
-Collate and report trends of site monthly reports and KPI's
-Promote a continuous improvement approach to improve product quality & reduce customer complaint levels year on year.
-Manage quality issues of first production runs.
-Develop as part of a multi-disciplined team to optimise resources, flexibility, performance and cover.
-Control hygiene and pest control contractors, ensuring satisfactory service through monitoring standards, visits and corrective actions.
-Define and promote, by being a clear role model, the behavioural standards expected of employees
-Support the structured recruitment, training and development of staff to build a team that operates self sufficiently to consistently high standards and promoting a high achiever philosophy through tailored personal development.
-Identify own training needs and with manager agree a time plan for achieving
-Key in development and implementation of software systems to effectively manage technical requirements.

Continuous Improvement
-Drive initiatives for improving GMP, food safety & quality of product.
-Promote a continuous improvement approach to reduce waste/downgraded product and quality complaints
-Deliver continuous improvement projects from ideas generation to completion. Track effects of improvement projects and report on progress.
-Responsible for achieving personal development objectives.

Communication
-Liase closely with colleagues within and across support functions (Logistics, Production, Engineering & Finance) to ensure quality or GMP concerns are appreciated
-Meet with team during each day to ensure priorities and concerns are communicated.
-Influence colleagues to achieve the required outcomes
-AX Superuser

Person Specification:

-Bsc Food or related subject
-At least 2 years experience, food hygiene qualification
-HACCP, Food testing
-Good report writing skills

Package details
1.25 days holidays
2.Contributory pension

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