Quality & Environment Manager

Quality & Environment Manager - £40,000 - £50,000 - North West

As Quality & Environment Manager, your job purpose will be:

• To Manage, Maintain and Continually Improve the business Quality Management System (QMS). With scope to create an Integrated Management System. (IMS).
• Inclusive of all Audited Accreditations both current and what the business would like to develop in the future. (Current)ISO22716/9001, COSMOS, Soil Association and BRCGS Accreditations. (future) BCORP & ISOEN14001.
• Provide Leadership within quality & Environmental within the business to achieve world class standards in which personal accountability, responsibility, development of people, structured training and continual improvement are expected and delivered.
• Support Operations with the development of the team and delivering the company strategic plan.
• To Develop & Report on Quality& Environmental KPI’s for business.
• To support the business goals in achieving and sustaining all current and future accreditation.

The Quality & Environment Manager reports to:

• Reports to the Operations Director
• Direct Reports. Quality Administrator, QC line support.
• Health Safety & Training Leader.

Job context & scope:

• Close liaison with Production and wider Business to ensure decisions that are made are correct and implementation support the business Goals and Objectives.
• Close liaison with warehouse and engineering department in quality relating issues.
• Role is critical for success, ensuring quality standards are set and maintained and that day-to-day quality standards are met, and any corrective actions are actioned.

The Quality & Environment Manager's Key Responsibilities:

• To maintain all current and future audit accreditations, making sure we are Audit ready. Devise and establish a company's quality procedures, standards, and specifications.
• Hands-on approach to delivering training & improvements to the business, make your mark, develop, and implement your Leadership style to the team.
• Review customer requirements and make sure they are met in conjunction with other managers.
• Work with purchasing staff to establish quality requirements from external suppliers, how we onboard and maintain standards, through questionnaire and external Audits.
• Set the standards for Quality as well as Environmental, establish us as a BCorp member drive the businesses Environmental approach.
• Establish ways to reduce waste and increase efficiency throughout the business.
• Set organisational sustainability targets, developing plans to meet those targets and oversee their delivery.
• Define when we are ready as a business to implement ISOEN14001, how are we going to do this?
• Define quality procedures through WI/SOPS in conjunction with the Operational team and wider business.
• Monitor performance by gathering relevant data and produce statistical reports NCR’s, KPI’s
• Measure performance and identify any areas of weakness, recommending and implementing structured improvements.
• Liaise with other managers and staff and provide training, tools and techniques to enable others to achieve quality standards
• Change Management assess the effectiveness of changes made.
• Benchmark, where practicable make sure the company is working as effectively as possible to keep up with competitors/ industry standards.
• Train develop and manage your team and yourself

Quality & Environment Manager requirements:

• Quality/Management qualification (Required)
• Environmental Qualification (Advantageous)
• HACCP (Advantageous)
• Risk Management (Advantageous)
• Lean/ Six Sigma qualification (Advantageous)
• Must have excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships at all levels within the business.
• Good basic standard of Mathematics & English
• Good understanding of Quality principles
• Competent user of Windows & Microsoft Office: Outlook, Word, PowerPoint
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Accuracy and an eye for detail.
• Excellent planning and organisation skills.

Technical/Professional Experience:

· FMCG company/environment

· Quality / Managerial/Supervisory experience.

· Bottle packing environment.

· Lean Manufacturing Tools/Techniques.

Rewards & Benefits:

We’re dedicated to ensuring we are a great place to work, we love what we do and we want to work with great people who love what they do too. We have a happy and inclusive workplace that offers support and development opportunities for our people to continue to achieve their best.

This role will be office based. We offer a company profit share bonus after qualifying period.