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Form of workQA Manager
Salary: Competitive, depending on experience
Location: Tilmanstone
Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
Shift Pattern: Nights
Bakkavor Tilmanstone is looking to recruit a Quality Assurance Manager to lead their motivated QA team, this is a great opportunity to become part of the Bakkavor Group. You will be responsible for leading and motivating the Quality Assurance team in monitoring and evaluating product and processing systems.
Your main accountabilities will include:
- Understanding and applying relevant standards and codes of practice so that Bakkavor, Customer, BRC and legal requirements are achieved and maintained.
- Ensuring that the requirements of HACCP are implemented, maintained, and achieved. Involvement in the evaluation of risks and defining controls, prior to the introduction of a new process, product or raw material.
- Understanding, implementing, and reviewing quality management systems associated with the production of food to the agreed safety and quality standards.
- Implementing, maintaining, and reviewing an audit system to ensure that critical procedures for product safety, legality and quality are in place and complied with. In addition, review all internal findings, identify trends, and implement appropriate preventative measures.
- Supporting the Technical Manager & the business with management of audits, hosting audits as appropriate. Managing response & close out of non-conformance reports from audits as required.
- Effectively communicating with internal and external customers, suppliers and production teams to ensure all the Technical needs of the business are met. Deputise for the Technical Manager in their absence
- Managing the training & development requirements of the Technical team and ensuring that direct reports are properly equipped to undertake their roles.
- Managing the QA team including recruitment and personal development of the team.
- Generating technical business KPI information, communicating, trend and highlight issues. Developing and agree action plans and through Continuous Improvement drive the business forward.
- Ensuring that a safe working environment exists for all employees within the QA team and that as a minimum the standards set out in the H&S manual are met.
About You
Ideally, you will have previous experience within a similar Technical/QA Manager role within a fast faced high care food manufacturing environment and a good knowledge of food safety.
The ability to demonstrate our key values of customer care, can-do attitude, teamwork and not just getting it right but keeping it right - will be key.
You will be energetic, punctual, proactive, and reliable with the ability to lead, guide, and motivate others towards achievement whilst maintaining good GMP Standards.
About us
We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.
What you can expect from us
When joining us you can expect a highly competitive rewards package including group pension, private medical insurance, and other flexible benefits - alongside excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.
