QA Manager: Lead Food Quality & Compliance

Pilgrim's Europe; Bodmin; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous holiday allowance plus bank

Company pension scheme

Life assurance

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Employee discount platform

Training and development opportunities

Career progression

On-site parking

Job summary

Pilgrim's Europe at Bodmin is seeking a QA Manager to lead the Quality Assurance function at the Bodmin site, ensuring food safety, legality, quality, and traceability while developing a high-performing QA team.

You will drive internal audits, NCRs and investigations, implement root cause analysis, monitor KPIs, and partner with production and external agencies to uphold GMP standards and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Quality Assurance or Technical role within the food manufacturing industry.
• Experience conducting internal audits.
• Strong knowledge of food safety, quality systems, and GMP standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the site QA team, ensuring appropriate skills, knowledge, and resources are in place.
• Support production teams in delivering products that consistently meet specification.
• Manage non-conformance reports (NCRs), concessions, customer complaints, and investigations.
• Drive root cause analysis and corrective/preventative actions.
• Monitor site Technical and Quality KPIs and identify improvement opportunities.
• Oversee swabbing and sampling programmes and address out-of-spec results.
• Lead GMP audit programme and support audits by customers and third parties.
• Ensure actions from audits are completed.
• Promote continuous improvement, food safety, and quality excellence.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Internal audits

Food safety

GMP standards

Stakeholder management

Root Cause Analysis

Education

Level 3 Food Safety

Level 3 HACCP

GCSEs (English/Math/Science)

Food-related degree (Desirable)

Job description

Pilgrim's Europe at Bodmin is seeking a QA Manager to lead the Quality Assurance function at the Bodmin site, ensuring food safety, legality, quality, and traceability while developing a high-performing QA team.

You will drive internal audits, NCRs and investigations, implement root cause analysis, monitor KPIs, and partner with production and external agencies to uphold GMP standards and continuous improvement.