Quality Assurance Manager

Greencore Group; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading convenience food producer in Liverpool is seeking a Quality Assurance Manager to lead the quality assurance teams. This role involves ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and customer requirements while directing the quality management system and internal audits. The ideal candidate should have a degree in Food Science, prior audit experience, and knowledge of HACCP principles. The company offers competitive salary and benefits including holidays, pension, and employee discounts.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level with a Food specialism or equivalent qualification.
• Has previous internal audit experience.
• Holds an intermediate Food Hygiene certificate level 3.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate quality assurance teams for service improvement.
• Deliver quality management system and internal audit plan.
• Develop capability of the Quality Assurance team.
• Monitor departmental key performance indicators.
• Ensure safe working environment and compliance with policies.

Skills

Food Hygiene Certification

Internal Audit Experience

Knowledge of HACCP

Allergen Awareness

Microsoft Office

Risk Assessment Principles

Knowledge of Legal Labelling

Education

Degree in Food Science or equivalent

Job description

Why Greencore?

We're one of the UK\'s leading producers of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we\'re proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY24, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.8bn.

Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here at Crosby, we have a team of around 300 colleagues. We produce sushi for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Asda, Aldi, Co-op, Morrisons and Sainsbury\'s.

What you\'ll be doing

As a Quality Assurance Manager your role will be to lead and co‑ordinate the work of the quality assurance teams to deliver and implement service improvement, in line with operational day-to-day needs with regards to safety, quality, legality and customer requirements.

• Direct the team to deliver the quality management system including the internal audit plan in order to ensure compliance with customer, manufacturing unit, legislative, divisional and strategic requirements
• Provide information and demonstrate operational practice in support of external audits to enable compliance with customer requirements
• Continue to develop the capability of the Quality Assurance team through the technical strategy
• Monitor departmental key performance indicators adjusting team activity to ensure targets are achieved
• Plan and maintain resource utilisation to advise the required quality assurance tasks
• Lead and deliver a project(s) to create business effectiveness and cost efficiency
• Building production capability and understanding to achieve relevant technical requirements
• Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set out in the Health Safety and Environment Policy

What we\'re looking for

We\'re proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

• Educated to degree level with a Food specialism or equivalent qualification (or has relevant work experience)
• Has previous internal audit experience
• Holds an intermediate Food Hygiene certificate level 3 and level 3 Health and Safety
• Experience in a food manufacturing environment
• Ability to use computer programmes including Word, Excel and related technical IT packages
• Knowledge of the HACCP principles and practice
• Knowledge of allergen awareness-implications / related to labelling and nutritional awareness
• Demonstratable shelf-life determination and awareness
• Experience and knowledge of hygiene and disinfection principles
• Can demonstrate basic micro awareness
• Knowledgeable about the principles of risk assessment
• Knowledgeable about legal labelling as a basic requirement
• Basic knowledge of weight legislation
• Knowledge of technical key performance indicators

These may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment.

If this sounds like you, join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

What you\'ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job‑related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on‑the‑job training and development opportunities to further your career.