QA Manager - Site-based Food Safety & Quality Leader

Pilgrim's Europe; Bodmin; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous holiday allowance

Company pension scheme

Life assurance

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Employee discount platform

Training and development opportunities

Career progression

Support for professional quals

Friendly team culture

Free on-site parking

Job summary

Pilgrim's Europe is seeking a QA Manager to lead the Quality Assurance function at our Bodmin site. The role focuses on safeguarding food safety, legality, quality, and traceability while cultivating a high-performing QA team.

Key responsibilities include leading the QA team, managing NCRs and investigations, driving RCA and CAPA, and supporting audits from customers and third parties. The role demands strong leadership, decision-making, and stakeholder management in a fast-paced manufacturing

Qualifications

• Essential: Level 3 Food Safety and Level 3 HACCP qualifications.
• Essential: Minimum of 5 GCSEs including English, Maths and Science.
• Desirable: Food-related degree or 3+ years in food industry.
• Desirable: Sensory Analysis qualification or Microbiology qualification.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the site QA team with required skills and resources.
• Support production in delivering products meeting specification.
• Manage NCRs, concessions, customer complaints and investigations.
• Drive root cause analysis and implement corrective/preventive actions.
• Monitor and manage site Technical and Quality KPIs for improvements.
• Oversee swabbing and sampling programmes and address out-of-spec results.
• Lead GMP audit programme and support audits from customers/third parties.
• Ensure actions from internal and external audits are completed.
• Promote continuous improvement, food safety and quality excellence.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external customers.

Skills

Leadership

Quality systems

Root Cause Analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication

GMP knowledge

Education

Level 3 Food Safety

Level 3 HACCP

GCSEs (5)

Job description

Pilgrim's Europe is seeking a QA Manager to lead the Quality Assurance function at our Bodmin site. The role focuses on safeguarding food safety, legality, quality, and traceability while cultivating a high-performing QA team.

Key responsibilities include leading the QA team, managing NCRs and investigations, driving RCA and CAPA, and supporting audits from customers and third parties. The role demands strong leadership, decision-making, and stakeholder management in a fast-paced manufacturing