Quality Manager
Shepton Mallet
£ UP TO 40,000 DOE

My Client is a fast growing Food manufacturer who is now seeking a Quality Manager / Junior Technical Manager to join their team. Reporting into the Senior Management team, you will be an integral part of a medium-size, quickly growing company, taking the lead in all technical matters, and liaising across all departments to ensure excellent food safety standards are maintained, promoted, and further developed. You will ideally be seeking a role that will allow you to grow and develop as the company does

Quality Manager / Junior Technical Manager Key responsibilities:
·Ensure compliance with all site requirements including BRCGS Global standards, customer audits and BRCGS accreditation audit requirements
·Manage the company's complaint system e.g., responding, recording, and trending
·Develop and maintain the QMS and HACCP, TACCP & VACCP as team lead
·Managing company product specifications, including customers online portals
·Liaise with colleagues, Heads of Departments and Directors to maintain and develop B Corp certification
·To ensure that the standards of food safety, legality and quality defined within the Quality Management System are understood and implemented across site
·Managing any non-conformances or risks to the product, ensuring appropriate action is taken to close out and implement preventative actions
·Managing sampling on site for laboratory tests
·Quality control of traded good items
·Assist with NPD requirements; e.g., artwork proofing, shelf-life determination, and HACCP risk assessments
·Actively and effectively manage and promote a food safety culture within the site ensuring all health and safety requirements are met, regularly reviewed and action plans developed and implemented.
·Communicate, liaise & escalate issues with the Directors, Heads of Departments, and colleagues where necessary.
·Lead the traceability team, and oversee traceability exercises.

Key Skills:
·Ideally trained to a degree level in a food science discipline
·Must understand BRCGS Food Safety Issue 9 (August 2022)
·You will be Food Safety and HACCP Level 3 qualified plus ideally Lead Auditor
·You will be able to demonstrate working knowledge of raw material & packaging specifications, factory technical management, retail customer requirements, hosting food safety audits, BRCGS, QMS and HACCP

If the role is of interest, then please send your CV today.

This role would suit candidates who have previously worked in roles such as Technical Administrator, Technical Officer, QMS manager, Quality Systems Manager, Supplier Assurance Manager, QA Supervisor, QA Manager