QA Team Lead - Food Safety & Process Improvement

Inspired Global Cuisine; Oldham; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Bank holidays

Discount for staff

Free parking onsite

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Employee assistance programme

Long service awards

Reward & recognition

Retailer discounts

Job summary

Inspired Global Cuisine in Oldham is seeking an experienced QA Team Leader to coordinate the QA Technologist team and ensure daily quality assurance duties meet the highest standards.

You will coach and mentor QA Technologists in food safety, quality, legality and integrity, lead investigations into complaints and defects, and drive continuous improvement across the Technical function. This is an ideal step for an existing QA Supervisor aiming to progress within a growing manufacturing business.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating a QA team in food manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of food safety, legality and product integrity.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to use initiative and stay organized.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinating and assigning tasks across the QA Technologist team, escalating issues to the QA Manager as needed
• Coaching, developing and mentoring QA Technologists in food safety, quality, legality and integrity best practice
• Representing Technical/QA at daily production meetings
• Leading investigations into customer/consumer complaints and product defects
• Investigating microbiological out-of-specification results, including additional sampling and swabbing
• Supporting and leading QA projects to drive site Technical performance
• Overseeing GMP audits, CCP checks, hygiene audits, and verification of food safety, quality and legality processes
• Reviewing and verifying Certificates of Analysis against deliveries and specifications
• Raising and investigating internal and external non-conformances
• Supporting external audits and visits
• Organising and running consistency and sensory (taste) panels
• Managing traceability exercises and reporting on findings

Skills

QA leadership

Food safety

HACCP

Quality assurance

Communication

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Tools

Outlook

Word

Excel

Job description

Inspired Global Cuisine in Oldham is seeking an experienced QA Team Leader to coordinate the QA Technologist team and ensure daily quality assurance duties meet the highest standards.

You will coach and mentor QA Technologists in food safety, quality, legality and integrity, lead investigations into complaints and defects, and drive continuous improvement across the Technical function. This is an ideal step for an existing QA Supervisor aiming to progress within a growing manufacturing business.