Lead Quality Manager

AVARA FOODS LIMITED; Hereford; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food business in the UK seeks a Lead Quality Manager for their Wednesbury facility. The role involves managing the quality function to ensure compliance with food safety standards and customer specifications. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications in Quality Management and demonstrate strong leadership abilities. The position offers competitive salary, 31 days holiday, career development opportunities, and various employee benefits, including a pension scheme and remote GP appointments.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

31 days holiday allowance

Secure contract with career development

Pension contribution of 6%

Life assurance scheme

Discounted staff sales

Cycle to work scheme

Salary Advance Finance

Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme

Employee Benefit Scheme with accessible healthcare services

Qualifications

• Proven ability to manage and motivate teams effectively.
• Experience with internal audits and food safety compliance.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Manage the site Technical function to ensure legal compliance.
• Support external audits and conduct internal audits.
• Coordinate investigation of customer complaints and develop action plans.

Skills

Leadership skills

Internal auditing

Communication skills

Knowledge of BRCGS or ISO 9000

Experience with major retailers

Education

Food related HND

Advanced Food Safety Level 4

Advanced HACCP Level 4

Job description

As an inclusive, forward-thinking business, we take pride in our approach to Quality across Avara Foods and are looking for a highly competent and motivated Lead Quality Manager to join our Quality Team, based at our Wednesbury site. The role is predominantly office-based, and the factory environment is a fast-paced, dynamic FMCG environment which is noisy and refrigerated in some areas, manufacturing short shelf life products where hygiene standards are critical. As a Lead Quality Manager you'll be working Monday to Friday 08.00-17.00. What will you be doing as a Lead Quality Manager at Avara? As a Lead Quality Manager you'll manage the site Technical function to ensure legal compliance, food safety, and adherence to customer specifications.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that Quality Managers are effectively recruited, inducted, trained and managed
• Ensure that team development is in line with talent needs defined by the business technical function
• Support external audits e.g., BRCGS, Red Tractor, retailer
• Ensure that internal audit schedules are maintained and audits are completed. Communicate audit corrective actions plans to relevant personnel and ensure non-conformances are signed off within agreed time scales
• Provide Operations with Technical monitoring and auditing to ensure that customer requirements are understood and achieved
• Review frequency of non-conformances to identify longer term corrective action plans
• Review specifications for all products, packaging and ingredients and ensure that all versions are current and meet customer specifications
• Be involved in and coordinate the investigation of customer complaints of a technical nature and ensure findings and action plans are completed and communicated both internally and externally
• Support the effective relationships with both internal and external customers including during site visits
• Provide an effective link between NPD and production ensuring that new or changed products, processes and packaging are effectively introduced

Are you passionate about Product Safety and Quality? Looking for a new challenge? Do you have experience or qualifications in Quality Management? Food related HND, Advanced Food Safety Level 4 and Advanced HACCP Level 4.

Qualifications

• Internal auditing qualification
• Experience of BRCGS or ISO 9000
• Leadership skills and experience of motivating teams
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing at all levels
• Knowledge and experience of major retailers

Avara Foods is one of the UK's leading food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the country's major supermarkets and well-known restaurants. We own and manage our entire supply chain, from farms to factory and all the way to the customer door - meaning we have careers that cover a whole range of functions. We have major processing sites across England and Wales, and an agricultural network of over 350 farms, spanning from North Yorkshire to the South Coast and Wales.

A little about our Wednesbury site: Our advanced manufacturing site in Wednesbury, West Midlands, is our newest advanced manufacturing site, and we've invested around £4.7 million into state-of-the-art facilities. Our Wednesbury site is a flagship Added Value centre for Avara, which employs over 150 talented individuals at the site, who help to supply some of the UK's largest supermarkets and popular restaurants!

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• 31 days holiday allowance
• Secure contract with long term career development opportunities
• Straight forward pension contribution of 6 %
• Life assurance scheme
• Staff sales at hugely discounted prices
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary Advance Finance
• Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme
• Access to our Employee Benefit Scheme, which includes unlimited remote GP appointments and unlimited mental health sessions, physiotherapy sessions, medical second opinion consultation, and other discounts and perks, such as savings & discounts on weekly costs