Quality Assurance Manager

GREENCORE; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Pension contributions

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre platform

Enhanced parental leave and menopause

Job summary

Greencore’s Kiveton site seeks a Quality Assurance Manager to lead QA teams, drive the quality management system, and ensure safety, legality and customer requirements are met.

You will develop the QA capability, manage external audits, and deliver continuous improvement across production, with a strong emphasis on HACCP and allergen controls.

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 and level 3 Health and Safety.
• Experience in a food manufacturing environment.
• Ability to use Word, Excel and related IT packages.
• Knowledge of HACCP principles and practice.
• Knowledge of allergen awareness and labelling/nutrition implications.
• Shelf-life determination and hygiene/disinfection knowledge.
• Knowledge of risk assessment principles.
• Knowledge of legal labelling basics.
• Weight legislation knowledge.
• KPIs awareness.

Responsibilities

• Direct the team to deliver the quality management system and internal audit plans.
• Support external audits to demonstrate compliance with customer requirements.
• Develop QA team capability through the technical strategy.
• Monitor departmental KPIs and adjust activities to meet targets.
• Plan and maintain resource utilisation for QA tasks.
• Lead projects to improve business effectiveness and cost efficiency.
• Build production capability to meet technical requirements.
• Ensure a safe working environment meeting Health, Safety and Environment policy.

Skills

Quality assurance

Internal audit

Food hygiene

HACCP

Health & safety

Excel

IT packages

Education

Food-related degree

Tools

Word

Excel

IT packages

Job description

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026,we’reone of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business,we’reproud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

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

Our site in Kiveton employs over 600 and is the UK’s largest quiche bakery, producing more than 42 million quiche each year along with a wide range of ready meals and soups.

What you'll be doing

4 on / 4 off - days 05:30-17:30

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 achieve
• 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 awarenessExperience 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
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• 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.

We reserve the right to close this advertisement before the stated closing date.