Quality Assurance Manager

Cranswick plc; Watton; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension plan

Wellbeing discounts

Cycle to work

Share scheme

Gym membership

Death in service

Enhanced holiday

Job summary

Cranswick Country Foods in Watton, Norfolk, is seeking an experienced QA Manager to lead the site QA team and support with customer complaints, technical systems and continuous improvement.

The role involves managing food safety, legality and quality across the factory, leading HACCP activities and coordinating visits and audits. Level 3 Food Safety and HACCP certification is preferred, with strong communication across all levels of the business.

Qualifications

• Directly manage the site Q.A. team and provide leadership across departments.
• Support visit reports, corrective actions and customer responses.
• Provide data trending and analysis to support continuous improvement.
• Lead quality, legality and safety under BRC standards in the factory.
• Lead on HACCP and facilitate customer visits and audits.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage the site based Q.A. team, ensuring leadership and direction across departments.
• Support Factory Technical Manager with visit reports and corrective actions.
• Provide production with effective data trends for quality assessments.
• Ensure compliance with BRC standards for food safety, legality and quality.
• Lead factory HACCP efforts and support customer visits and audits.

Skills

QA management

Leadership

HACCP

Food safety

Quality systems

Data analysis

Job description

Cranswick Country Foods in Watton, Norfolk is serious about its quality pork products. Now we're hungry for talented people to join us. It's win win; you achieve your potential, we achieve our ambitious growth plans.

We are looking for an experienced QA Manager to act as part of a hands-on Technical team, you will be responsible for the day to day management of the site based Q.A. team for the Watton site whilst providing support with customer complaint responses, technical systems, statistical analysis and project work of the Factory Technical Manager. Ensuring product is produced to high quality standards and within safety and legality requirements.

Job requirements of QA Manager:

• Directly managing the site based Q.A. team, ensuring strong leadership and direction is provided to achieve and maintain a single vision for the technical team in all departments
• Support the Factory Technical Manager in ensuring visit reports are completed, and corrective actions closed in a timely manner
• Providing production teams with effective trending of key data such as quality assessments to support continuous improvement
• Working to BRC standards, you will be responsible for managing all aspects of food safety, legality and quality throughout the factory; maintaining and developing the existing Quality Management System to support our high quality standards.
• Being actively involved in both 'factory floor' and technical systems, including HACCP, the successful candidate will be confident in leading customer visits and audits and be able to build strong working relationships.
• Ideally you will hold Level 3 Food Safety and HACCP certification and be able to communicate clearly and coherently at all levels of the business.
• Drive the sites quality objectives to maintain customer standards.

Pay and benefits:

• Salary - £competitive
• Pension - 3% employer contributions/5% employee contributions
• Access to our 'Feed your Wellbeing' hub, offering a range of retail, restaurant and entertainment discounts and wellbeing support
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted share scheme
• Discounted local gym membership
• Death in service insurance
• Enhanced holiday after 2 and 4 years' service

Closing Date: 20th September 2026 (please note that should we receive significant interest, this closing date may be brought forward )

If you are an internal applicant, please ensure you have made your line manager aware before applying.