Built In Quality Leader

Princes Group; Bradford; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Leave

Pension

Flexible Holidays

Family Friends & Carers

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

Critical Illness Cover

Learning & Development

Job summary

Princes Group is seeking a Built In Quality Leader at our Bradford site to drive quality, food safety and continuous improvement across manufacturing teams. You will lead a small team, partner with other functions and ensure MTM targets are met while upholding brand quality standards.

You will develop and sustain a culture of quality, train staff on QA practices, and contribute to POS maturity and operational excellence across the site.

Qualifications

• Experience leading quality and food safety in manufacturing.
• Ability to implement quality culture and MTM goals.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement and root-cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Create and implement quality culture, policies and procedures.
• Lead problem solving and root cause analysis across shifts.
• Drive MTM targets for quality, waste and RFT.
• Ensure product safety, quality and consistency for brands.
• Coach teams on food safety culture and skills development.
• Develop controls plans and FMEA, maintain QMS procedures.
• Report findings and present to leadership, support external audits.
• Manage data reporting and MTM metrics on SQCDP dashboard.

Skills

Quality Leadership

Lean Manufacturing

Data Analysis

FMEA

QMS

Stakeholder Engagement

Job description

Role Description

Princes Bradford is looking for a Built In Quality Leader to join our centre of excellence for fruit squash, home to the Jucee brand and a broad portfolio including cordials, premium high juice, quadruple strength, and standard squash. As proud partners of Capri‑Sun, Bradford now produces over 250 million juice pouches annually for Great Britain and Ireland—combining trusted quality with global reach.

The Role Includes Two Direct Reports

• Site Trainer
• Factory Analyst

Day based (with flexibility to work on shifts as may be required)

Benefits

• 25 Days Annual Leave plus Birthday off
• 14.5% Pension – 5% employee opt in / 9.5% employer
• Flexible Holiday Option – Buy 5 Additional Days
• Enhanced Family Friendly & Carers Policies
• Life Assurance Cover
• Private Medical Insurance
• Critical Illness Cover
• Learning & Development Opportunities

Working Hours

This is a site based role working Monday - Friday 08.45 - 17.00. Due to the nature of manufacturing there may be times where flexibility is needed to meet business needs.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy and Development

• Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice manufacturing quality & food safety culture, vision, strategy, policies, processes, and procedures to aid and improve operational performance measures that matter [MTM]
• Establishing strategies to improve process efficiency, the delivery of operational / manufacturing right first time [RFT], and profitability through process review / waste reduction.
• Contribute to new business initiatives and projects and review and communicate the impact on operational activities.

General and Task Management

• Work proactively with all functions, Leaders, and employees, to maintain a program of continual operations improvement within their areas of responsibility.
• Lead problem solving methodology (Lean multi step), perform operations root cause analysis and resolution
• Lead the team to achieve operational quality / waste target Measures that Matter [MTM] for manufacturing & continuous improvement [CI] objectives
• Ensure operations / manufacturing processes, deliver on product safety, quality and consistency expectations of customer and brands.
• Provide clear leadership & coaching for the development of a food safety and quality culture within the operations / manufacturing / production environment
• To be the communication conduit for production and technical lead, on the operations / production team engagement with customers
• Develop and conduct controls plans & Failure Mode and Effect Analysis [FMEA].
• Implement all relevant procedures in the Quality Management System [QMS], as they relate to the areas of operational responsibility and accountability
• Ensure that all in-house [manufacturing] systems and procedures are maintained, updated, revised and modified to meet requirements. Train out and communicate to identify learning opportunities to improve standard working methods
• Support the Shift teams to develop and maintain an accurate skills matrix. Identify skills gaps and prioritise training needs including deployment of Site Trainer to develop the capability of our teams
• Champion a program for the implementation and sustainment of a continuous improvement and food safety & quality culture, within the sites operations teams
• Lead regular operations BIQ events with representatives from appropriate departments to establish an action plan for improving food safety & quality culture / built in Right First Time [RFT] and product & process waste as they relate to operations areas of responsibility
• Produce written reports and make presentations
• Identify and deploy the necessary skill sets, resource levels and systems to deliver projects, including the engagement of external resources as required.
• Gain a detailed understanding of the Princes Operating System (POS) and maturity matrix, and support in the audit and regular reporting of adherence to key elements of the Operational Excellence Strategy
• Management of Factory Analyst, responsible for data and reporting across the balanced scorecard (SQCDP). Development of MTM to facilitate the successful delivery of the Site Must Win Battle Plan (MWBP). This includes accountability for accurate reporting of daily, weekly and monthly measures to support decision making throughout the site
• Management of Site Trainer, responsible for identifying and prioritising training gaps across manufacturing teams. Supporting all shifts to successfully deliver the production plan and develop teams to ensure skills are balanced across the teams. Including the assessment and sign-off of skills within the team

Maintain Product Food Safety, Legality, Integrity, Authenticity and Quality standards

By ensuring all associated policies and procedures are adhered to.

Essential Skills

• Process / Production / Mechanical Engineering
• Data analysis quality tools – SPC, DoE etc
• Problem Solving – 8D / DAMAIC
• Internal Auditing
• Creation of operational processes and procedures
• Effective verbal and written communication including training, facilitating, and presenting

Desirable

• HACCP L3
• Food Safety L3
• Six Sigma Green Belt

Country

United Kingdom

Location

Bradford

Business Area

Operations

Workplace Type

Onsite

About Princes

The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.