Leader - Quality Assurance

International Procurement and Logistics Limited; Whittlesey; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% In store Discount

Annual Bonus Scheme

33 days Annual Leave - Inclusive of 8

Enhanced pension scheme

Life Assurance - 4x annual base salary

Job summary

International Procurement and Logistics Limited (IPL) seeks a Leader - Quality Assurance to head the Production QA team, ensuring high quality on packing lines and compliance with ASDA specifications.

The role requires HACCP Level 3, BRC Lead Assessor, and proven supervisory experience in fresh produce or food. You will develop SOPs, drive improvements, and liaise with senior stakeholders to protect productivity.

Qualifications

• Supervisory experience in an Operations role within food/fresh produce.
• Experience implementing quality systems and compliance processes.
• Strong communication with stakeholders and teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage QA team to meet ASDA quality and compliance during packing.
• Maintain finished specifications and ensure availability for QA.
• Ensure production paperwork is completed accurately with track changes.
• Investigate quality failures and implement corrective actions.
• Maximise yield through coaching on quality and reduction while meeting specs.
• Communicate quality issues to senior stakeholders to minimise productivity impact.
• Create SOPs/guidelines to improve department ways of working.
• Deliver training to QA using SOPs and guidelines.
• Support for BRC compliance and internal audits.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Food industry knowledge

Communication skills

Proactive decision making

IT skills

Education

HACCP Level 3

BRC Lead Assessor

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

About The Role

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Leader - Quality Assurance to join our Technical Team.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the management of the Production QA team. Ensuring high and consistent quality is managed during the packing phase to meet ASDA’s specifications. Working alongside production colleagues you will ensure all production lines comply with relevant legislative, food safety and quality requirements, while meeting targets on productivity, cost per pack and yield.
Your key responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for the management of the QA team to meet ASDA’s quality and compliance requirements during packing
• Maintain finished specifications ensuring available for QA
• Ensure Production paperwork is completed accurately inclusive of track changes
• Complete investigations with regards to rejection or internal quality failures, ensuring that all corrective actions are implemented
• Maximise yield through coaching of colleagues on quality and monitoring & reduction, while still meeting ASDA’s specifications
• Communication of quality issues on the line to senior stakeholders to ensure quick action is taken to minimise impact on productivity
• Create Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and guidelines to continuously improve the department’s ways of working
• Deliver training and coaching sessions to QA using written SOP’s and guidelines
• Compliance for BRC requirements, assist in compliance audits (internal)

What are we looking for?

• Proven experience working within Operations in a supervisory role
• Relevant experience in fresh produce or food
• HACCP Level 3
• BRC Lead Assessor
• Proactive decision making
• Communication skills
• Excellent IT skills – Microsoft Office

What's in it for you?

We are a rapidly growing and exciting business, dedicated to the development of our colleagues and committed to creating a great environment for people to come and work. In order to grow we need to find people already living our values, culture and commitment.
In return we will offer you development, a competitive salary and benefits package, inclusive of:

• 10% Asda In store Discount
• Annual Bonus Scheme
• 33 days Annual Leave - Inclusive of 8 days bank holiday
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Life Assurance - All our colleagues benefit from life assurance of 4 x their annual base salary.
• Help@hand - Free, direct access to health and wellbeing support service, including unlimited video consultations with a UK-based GP 24/7, physiotherapy and mental health support.
• Grocery Aid - We’ve partnered with Grocery Aid to our colleagues and their families with a wide range of emotional, practical and financial support services.
• Asda mobile Discount - 30% off a wide range of Asda Mobile bundles and add-ons for our colleagues and one of their family members.
• Asda Pet Insurance discount – Up to 10% Discount
• Exclusive Exchange Rates via Asda Money - our colleagues can get a better exchange rate for their travel money when buying currency through Asda Travel Money (TravelEx)
• Life Assurance - All our colleagues benefit from life assurance of 4 x their annual base salary.
• Ride-to-work scheme - We work with Evans to provide our colleagues with great savings across their range of bikes, clothing and equipment.
• Plus lots more! - Depending on job band, other fantastic benefits are also available including private healthcare, car allowances and long term incentive schemes.
• Free car parking

About Us

Our purpose here at IPL, Forza & Kober is simple, we are one team who creates exceptional value for our customers and our mission is to support Asda on their journey to becoming #2 in the marketplace.
Through our people we live and breathe our values and we play to our strengths, but we also support each other’s development. We are a community of passionate individuals who possess a wide variety of skills and expertise, who work collectively to form a high performing team and a company to be proud of.
We are committed to a fully inclusive business that is representative of our customers, locations and the communities we serve. We recognise the value in diversity and welcome applications from all candidates regardless of sex, age, race, religion, gender or sexual identity and socio-economic background. We are committed to making

Our culture is our people and our people are our culture!