Quality Assurance Manager

Manucomm Recruitment Ltd; Dorchester; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job description

Quality Assurance Manager
Near Dorchester
Food manufacturing
£Competitive up to 40k DOE
Day based

My Client, an award-winning food manufacturer based in the Dorchester area, is looking to recruit a Quality Assurance Manager / Quality Manager. Reporting into the site Technical Manager, the successful candidate's main remit will be to lead and motivate the Quality Assurance team in monitoring and evaluating product and processing systems. Main accountabilities will include understanding and applying relevant standards so that company, customer, and legal requirements are achieved and maintained.

Responsibilities:

1. Understand and apply relevant standards & codes of practice to achieve and maintain business, customer, BRC, and legal requirements.
2. Ensure that the requirements of HACCP are implemented, maintained, and achieved. Involvement in the evaluation of risks and defining controls prior to the introduction of a new process, product, or raw material.
3. Drive quality standards across the factory, maintaining a culture of high performance and compliance.
4. Understand, implement, and review documented quality management systems to enable production of the agreed safety and quality standards.
5. Support operations with compilation and document control of operational procedures and oversee the completion and retrieval to maintain traceability.
6. Manage and respond to internal and external complaints, identifying root causes.
7. Support the Technical Manager & business with management of audits, hosting audits as appropriate. Manage response & close out of non-conformance reports from audits as required.
8. Lead, motivate, and manage the training & development requirements of the QA team, ensuring that direct reports are properly equipped to undertake their roles and achieve personal development and continuous improvement.
9. Manage the lab portal to ensure testing suites are up to date, results are analyzed, and lead root cause investigations with appropriate operational and hygiene teams as required, verifying corrective actions taken.
10. Generate technical business KPI information, communicate, trend, and highlight issues. Develop and agree action plans and drive the business forward through Continuous Improvement.

Skills / Experience Required:

1. Previous Quality Management experience in the Food Industry
2. HACCP
3. Good communicator and people person

This role may suit a person that has previously worked in a QA, QC, Quality Assurance, QSM, or Compliance role. This role is commutable from Weymouth, Dorchester, Yeovil, Blandford, and Poole.